Pope suggests 'better to be atheist than hypocritical Catholic'

Yahoo News ^ | Feb 23, 2017

[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.

[detective]

Pope Francis attacks Catholics for being hypocrites.

This from one of the most hypocritical Catholics in my lifetime.

Pope Francis only admires people like Castro and Maduro. He has nothing but contempt for the faithful Catholics who keep the church going.

[Jolla]

Holy crap

[notaliberal]

Please Lord, deliver us from this man!

[Lurkinanloomin]

It’s better to be a real Catholic than a fake Pope.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Poop Francis prefers atheists, trannies, fairies, satanists, and all other reprobates over somebody who is actually attempting to meet God on God’s terms.

[zbogwan2]

More balony coming from pope”who am I to judge”again! Seems like the more Papa Francis opines he digs himself and his beliefs/disbelief's a deeper space in Hell? Satan and his cohort(maybe Francis?)are sure trying to subvert Catholocism at every step they make?

[GreyFriar]

I wonder if he is referring to Nancy Pelosi, the late Teddy Kennedy and “non-traditional Catholics” like them?

[BenLurkin]

How did that servant of Satan rise to highest position of authority in the Catholic Church?

[Zathras]

“This is one crazy Pope!”
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[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?

[TexasFreeper2009]

Seriously... If I were a catholic... I would leave the church at this point.

This man is out of control.

Where is the good pope that this moron replaced?

[Salvation]

Good line.

[Spruce]

This dude is like the Obama of Catholicism. I bet the same puppet masters that tried to destroy the USA are trying the same method on the Catholic Church

[Ann Archy]

Dear God, Please TALK to this Pope!!!

[RaginRak]

.....amd Muslims

[FlingWingFlyer]

Is he claiming that he’s an atheist? Yikes!

[Salman]

This from one of the most hypocritical Catholics in my lifetime.

Or a hypocritical atheist.

It has long been my contention that religious surveys always undercount atheists, and the profession with the highest level of atheism is the clergy.

A bit surprising that the Pope would be one of those, but so it seems.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

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, . . . .'"

Here we go again. You're a horrible Catholic -- worse than an atheist -- if you don't pay "fair" wages and "exploit" people.

[headstamp 2]

[This dude is like the Obama of Catholicism.]

The Frankenpope.

[headstamp 2]

[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, . . . .’”]

More social justice horsesh**.

“You’re not Christian if you don’t let an illegal alien family live in your basement and let the rest of the country be invaded by the 4th world.”