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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.

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KEYWORDS: atheist; hypocrite; popefrancis
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To: Zathras

41 posted on 02/23/2017 2:07:37 PM PST by Trillian
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To: dangus

Are you sure, this Pope would ask?


42 posted on 02/24/2017 3:29:42 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: detective
A hypocritical Catholic is a sinner who falls short. That's actually all of us who actually believe and profess the Catholic Faith.

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.

43 posted on 02/24/2017 3:52:52 AM PST by piusv (Pray for a return to the pre-Vatican II (Catholic) Faith)
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