Posted on 12/01/2015 9:56:27 AM PST by amorphous
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, November 30, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- On the plane returning from his journey to Africa today Pope Francis made his clearest remarks in condemnation of 'fundamentalist' Catholics.
"Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions," Francis said, as reported by the National Catholic Reporter's Vatican correspondent, Joshua McElwee, and similarly by other journalists on the plane. "We Catholics have some -- and not some, many -- who believe in the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil."
"They do evil," said the pope. "I say this because it is my church."
"We have to combat it," he said. "Religious fundamentalism is not religious, because it lacks God. It is idolatry, like the idolatry of money."
Turning to Islam, the pope spoke of his friendship with a Muslim, adding, "You cannot cancel out a religion because there are some groups, or many groups in a certain point of history, of fundamentalists."
"Like everything, there are religious people with values and those without," he said. "But how many wars ... have Christians made? The sacking of Rome was not done by Muslims, eh?"
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Wow, I hesitate to criticize any man of God. But I have an urge to say that while Pope Francis may be leading his flock through turbulent times, I see how he may well be the last Pope to do so. No disrespect to Catholic brothers or sisters intended - all religions have had their share of 'defective' leaders.
And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free. John 8: 32
This Pope is heterodox.
In addition to being oxymoronic in his main message, one needs to ask is this guy sane?
The Pope is desperately making more stupid and insane remarks daily.
Is he trying to out-stupid our President?
And here I thought socialism was a sickness. A socialist pope the sickest of all.
Since Jesus is the fundamental standard (ie. an absolute) then Jesus was a fundamentalist. What the Pope is ultimately saying is that Jesus is not a Christian as the Pope understands Christianity and moreover that Jesus was “doing evil.” Jesus believed in absolute truth and in the High Holy Prayer he defined it as God’s word. “Your word is truth”
He is a total leftist. How sad for Catholics.
This is nothing less than a direct assault on Bible believing Christians.
A Christian fundamentalist is the polar opposite to the Islamic fundamentalist, just as the Bible is opposite to the Koran.
The authors of the books are opposite.
I don't know about anyone else but John Paul II is *my* Pope.
Does this Pope believe in anything?He sounds like just another “gotta go along to get along” guy.
I don't consider that a bad thing unless it also falls outside of scripture, as is the case here.
As a Catholic, I have been presuming that Francis says the things he says because he is a Jesuit. However, after this statement, I have to conclude that either Francis is suffering from some form of dementia, or he is ignorant of both Catholic doctrine and world history. In any case, he truly is a disaster.
Was the Pope sitting next to Obama during the “Reverend” Wright years? WTF, over?
That's the impression that I get.
For criticizing this Pope during his US visit, I took some flack from Catholics whose feelings were hurt. I don’t blame them; they thought I was stepping on their faith.
Truly, he is stepping on their faith.
The parallels between this Pope and Obama are uncanny.
They are both on a mission to destroy the respective entities that they lead.
And what a contrast from just a generation ago when Reagan and John Paul were the staunch defenders of the West.
I’ve been wondering how many Catholics are going to follow this man off the cliff because he is the pope.
How does the average Catholic cope with a situation like this?
Say what?
The fellow is a lefty LOON.
The term "Fundamentalist" in the United States derives, historically, from that.
So, there's a definition problem here. POpe Francis isn't using (whatever-word-in-Italian) "fundamentalist" to mean, in the American Protestant sense, somebody to believes in the doctrinal positions explained and defended in "The Fundamentals."
I don't think that outside of the USA,the use of the word "fundamentalist" is even known in this sense. In the rest of the world, it just means the equivalent of fanatic/zealot/extremist/nut.
The word in that sense is applied not just to Protestants, but to Catholics and Orthodox (who might have different, contrasting doctrinal points) and also Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Marxists, Vegetarians, -- it means a person who has a kind of monomaniaal attachment to some ideology.
So although Pope Francis certainly does say very dubious things from time to time, IN THIS CASE he is not insulting Protestantism or Evangelicalism per se.
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