Tagging every poster on this thread who I propose didn’t read the entire article and what the Pope actually said. From your responses, you read the headline, the bolded text, and then went forth and posted your comment without looking into what he actually said.
As FourtySeven rightly pointed out slightly above this post, Jesus did not come to call the righteous to Heaven, but sinners. The Pope should, and is, ministering to the poor in spirit, aka sinners. There is nothing in his words that says he is condoning, in fact he called out gender theory as wicked. He rightly says that this is a “human problem”, not of God, and that only God’s mercy will change them.
If you are unwilling to accept a sinner into your midst, you are not following the tenet of Christianity and might as well be a Jew from Jesus’ time. How fitting Luke 10:25-37 is the Gospel reading for today, are you the Priest or the Levite? How about being the Samaritan?
“Pope Francis has nevertheless chosen to refer to a woman who underwent a sex-change operation as a “man,” and also referred to her as having “married” another woman and admitted to receiving them in the Vatican last year.”
Gee, and I thought that is a quote directly from the article?
Sorry I still stand by my opinion.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, as are those of us who have taken issue with this Pope. This Pope has created a firestorm within the Catholic Church by reason of the things he has said and done. I’m not a Catholic, so I don’t have any reason to see him as anyone but just another human being. Seems though, that a number of Catholics here on FR have also taken exception to the way he comports himself. Follow hilm or don’t follow him, that’s your choice. FWIW, I’ve had it with the religion into which I was born and have given up on it completely. I have a personal believe in God as a “Christian” and I don’t need or want other mortals who merely profess to be better than I am, telling me I’m not good enough all the while they are reaching into my wallet. I also don’t need or want all the “rituals.”
Ooooookkkk...best keep you r preaching to your own flock there preacher. He’s said plenty wrong, indicating he is a false pope. It’s happened before, read your history.
Nice words, and you’re right.
But I still think the Pope is daffy.