Suffering persecution for righteousness sake is way different from what is going on in your church today.
That comment is an insult to all those who have truly suffered real persecution for following Christ.
Is there no evil in their church that Catholics are willing to condemn?
Blowing off this kind of stuff as not really significant has a head in the sand outlook.
The problem will not go away by itself. Your college of cardinals put him there. The problem is way deeper than just one bad pope. The hierarchy is rotten to the core and this pope is the fruit of that rottenness.
Math 7:16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Kiss off. I was not speaking to the anti Catholic zealots on your side of the Tiber and outside of the Church, who reek with thinking themselves wise in their own eyes about all things Catholic.
You speak foolishly by showing an inability to grasp the difference between Pope Frances’ “political” statements and on matters of faith as successor to Peter.
There are millions of Catholics living in Pakistan; Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, and Ethiopia, Syria, Turkey, and Iraq, to name a few. Any condemnation of Islam itself by the Pope will be the equivalent of signing a death warrant to these Catholics and other Christian faiths whose houses of worship will be burned to the ground and marauding mobs will kill innocent men, women, and children.
It’s easy from the comfortable drawing room parlors of the West to take aim at Frances “political” statements without regard to the consequences. Just this past Sunday, Muslims attended Sunday Mass in Churches across France for the martyred death of Fr. Jacques Hamel.
Radical Islam must be eliminated. But this is a solution for secular powers with the use of armies.