So what do Catholics actually stand for? It seems it is a moving target based only on leftest feelings. Glad I’m not one, it would be hard explaining to others how something is a sin one day but blessed the next.
the Pope can not change basic doctrine. He knows it. Catholics know it. comments about civil unions or couching things in post-modern terminology seem intended to hide or misdirect. Its why his office has been one of confusion and demoralization.
Besides, its certainly not an issue Protestants have escaped. I point to the Episcopal Church as exhibit 1A.
This board used to have an active, and rather strident, Religion forum. In the “Bad Old Days”, there was a Catholic poster who liked to say
“The Catholic Church has not survived this long by taken stands on things it knows it can not win.” If I remember right, that was on usury.
The RCC as an organization is for the organization, and not much else. Individual members, clergy, and bishops may be for Jesus, or for the devil, but the organization is for it’s own survival.
If I had to make a guess, someone has something on the pope or the Church as a whole. This is the payoff. By removing any stance for any sexual deviancy from the realm of the RCC, it is now fully converged.
And before the usual suspects chime in that this is not new, and has been the practice forever. Go bite a dog. The partners in the civil union are not staying home and baking potatoes, they are buggering each other. Then they are presenting themselves for communion and old Frankie said “That is just fine!”
So in the next five years you will see gay marriage in the church formally known as the RCC. And it will be celebrated as the doctrine that was known by all since the Apostles.
“What Catholics believe” is one thing, “What the Catholic Church authentically teaches” is another, and “The nonsense that +Francis is spouting today” is yet another. Do not assume that they are identical. In some cases, there may not even be any overlap.
Jerk....MOST CATHOLICS are CONSERVATIVE!! You should be so BLESSED to be a CATHOLIC!
Homosexuality is accepted & celebrated.
Sodomite “marriage” is preformed & celebrated.
Abortion is never mentioned.
Sin is rarely mentioned; except for the “sins” of “intolerance” & “judgement”.
Divorce is fully accepted & celebrated...in every Protestant religion.
Name a Protestant religion that isn’t infested with this apostasy....
Rightly criticize the pope for this; it is unbiblical.
But let’s all stop pretending the Catholic church is alone in betrayal of truth.
Go ahead & cast stones those without sin in their church.
Without a single sin.