Contrary to Pope Francis’ misguided political correctness to be nice to LGBT people, Matthew 18:15-17 shows us that Jesus taught that a congregation is ultimately supposed to treat unrepentant sinners like pagans and tax collectors.
In fact, note that in 1 Corinthians 5 Paul reflected on Jesus’ teaching about unrepentant sinners by reprimanding the Corinthian Christians for not expelling a sexual offender, verse 1 Corinthians 5:13 based on God’s command to “purge the evil from among you as evidenced by Deuteronomy 19:19.
The Pope also evidently doesn’t understand that 1 Corrinthians 15:33 warns not to be misled, “bad company corrupts good morals.”
The real problem is that the pope still, as many popes before him have back to Constantine, views the Roman Catholic church as the boss of the world.
Whereas these admonitions are specifically about church membership. They don’t have squat to say about non members of the church.
YES, I think the RCC has no more business than Ted Cruz in assuming the world has been given to it on a silver platter to do as it wishes.
Francis may not be so much wrong, as confused. The Roman Catholic Church has no business trying to exercise moral authority over non-members.