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Pope suggests 'better to be atheist than hypocritical Catholic'
Yahoo News ^ | Feb 23, 2017

Posted on 02/23/2017 8:48:34 AM PST by detective

Pope Francis delivered another criticism of some members of his own Church on Thursday, suggesting it is better to be an atheist than one of "many" Catholics who he said lead a hypocritical double life.

In improvised comments in the sermon of his private morning Mass in his residence, he said: "It is a scandal to say one thing and do another. That is a double life."

"There are those who say 'I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this and that association'," the head of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church said, according to a Vatican Radio transcript.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: atheist; hypocrite; popefrancis
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To: detective

All Christians are hypocrites, because all those who strive have fallen short.


21 posted on 02/23/2017 9:20:52 AM PST by dangus
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To: detective

One of the tenets of leadership is to honor those loyal to the principles of the organization, and to challenge those who are straying from its original doctrines, and hopefully bring them back into the fold.

Francis does the complete opposite. He insults those who try desperately to hold on to the religion of their childhood, and glorifies those who would take their church down the path of marxism.

Doesn’t he realize how many Christians have been tortured and murdered by the philosophy that he is espousing?

I am not Roman Catholic, so I don’t comment on the SPIRITUAL mistakes of this pope, but his POLITICAL behavior affects us all. By excusing and embracing Marxism, Islam, and Sexual Deviancy, he endangers Civilization, of which I consider myself a part.


22 posted on 02/23/2017 9:20:59 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“You are not Christian if you don’t deny your right to survival.”


23 posted on 02/23/2017 9:21:11 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: detective

... however, the Yahoo article is entirely FAKE NEWS.

“There are those who say ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this and that association’,” the head of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church said, according to a Vatican Radio transcript.

He said that some of these people should also say “’my life is not Christian, I don’t pay my employees proper salaries, I exploit people, I do dirty business, I launder money, (I lead) a double life’.”

“There are many Catholics who are like this and they cause scandal,” he said. “How many times have we all heard people say ‘if that person is a Catholic, it is better to be an atheist’.”


24 posted on 02/23/2017 9:22:24 AM PST by dangus
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To: detective
Melville said it better in Moby-Dick:

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”

25 posted on 02/23/2017 9:25:36 AM PST by dmcnash (Back off! I'm a Scientist.)
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To: detective

Better to be saved. What a biblically clueless maroon.


26 posted on 02/23/2017 9:28:28 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
So if you are a Catholic who goes to mass and follows church teachings, but fails to live up to some of them, the Pope thinks you are worse than someone who doesn’t believe in God? Is he saying that atheists aren’t hypocritical?

Works based salvation alert!
27 posted on 02/23/2017 9:29:54 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: detective

This Pope sucks.


28 posted on 02/23/2017 9:34:28 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: RaginRak

Yes they can be included in the “reprobate” category.
Nevermind what Jesus said over and over again...


29 posted on 02/23/2017 9:38:04 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Man says: I'll believe when I see. God says: Believe and you will see.)
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To: detective

A lot of catholics are both, seeing has how they live and/or supervise/govern.


30 posted on 02/23/2017 9:41:35 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: dangus

You read the article? That’s cheating


31 posted on 02/23/2017 10:04:32 AM PST by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Why leave? Popes come and go, the faith lasts forever.


32 posted on 02/23/2017 10:04:39 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: detective

More wit and wisdom from Francis the Talking Mule.


33 posted on 02/23/2017 10:10:24 AM PST by Bridesheadfan
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To: GreyFriar
I wonder if he is referring to Nancy Pelosi, the late Teddy Kennedy and “non-traditional Catholics” like them?

I Hope So !

34 posted on 02/23/2017 10:11:45 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Some of us are waiting for the next pope. With a 2000 year old church, we can try to be patient.


35 posted on 02/23/2017 10:21:06 AM PST by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: detective

Pope is both it appears


36 posted on 02/23/2017 10:58:53 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (There will come a time when those screaming Fascists are in fact the actual Facists. W Churchill)
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To: detective

He should look in the mirror.


37 posted on 02/23/2017 11:18:15 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Spruce

Exactly.


38 posted on 02/23/2017 11:58:18 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: detective

So is he saying he’s a hypocrite?


39 posted on 02/23/2017 12:18:01 PM PST by deputytess (Freedom is in peril. Defend it with all your might.t)
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To: BenLurkin

Fortunately it’s not quite the highest.


40 posted on 02/23/2017 1:46:10 PM PST by opus1
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