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.
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Are you sure, this Pope would ask?
The problem here is that Francis isn't even that because he doesn't believe and profess the Catholic Faith. He is not Catholic. I'll take a hypocritical Catholic pope over a non-Catholic false pope any day.
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