Posted on 07/12/2015 6:59:14 PM PDT by QT3.14
His speeches can blend biblical fury with apocalyptic doom. Pope Francis does not just criticize the excesses of global capitalism. He compares them to the “dung of the devil.” He does not simply argue that systemic “greed for money” is a bad thing. He calls it a “subtle dictatorship” that “condemns and enslaves men and women.”
Having returned to his native Latin America, Francis has renewed his left-leaning critiques on the inequalities of capitalism, describing it as an underlying cause of global injustice, and a prime cause of climate change. Francis escalated that line last week when he made a historic apology for the crimes of the Roman Catholic Church during the period of Spanish colonialism — even as he called for a global movement against a “new colonialism” rooted in an inequitable economic order.
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As usual, you provide not a hint of a whisper of a scintilla of evidence for this gratuitous assertion.
How does the Catholic Church force men to be celibate? I asked before, and you didn't answer.
Do they kidnap men at gunpoint and drag them to the seminary? Do they lock them up and keep them away from women? Do they use electro-shock aversion therapy on them?
You keep saying "forced celibacy," "forced celibacy," "forced celibacy," "forced celibacy," "forced celibacy," "forced celibacy," "forced celibacy"--yet you haven't provided a scintilla of detail about how this "force" is applied.
And you still haven't explained why both Jesus and St. Paul urge believers to be celibate virgins, if doing so is evil.
Your’re close, Jesus is the stumbling block and this Pope is tripping all over him by embracing social justice (Marxism, Communism) as a way to justification and salvation for the world.
He belongs to Satan.
The Catholics have a real problem here.
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