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Pope Francis to Catholics: ‘Who are you to judge others?’
Religion News ^ | June 20, 2016 | Rosie Scammell

Posted on 08/24/2016 10:43:31 AM PDT by Gamecock

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Stop being judgmental hypocrites and take a look at yourself in the mirror — without covering up your wrinkles — Pope Francis advised Catholics in a sermon that reprised one of his favorite themes.

In his last homily at morning Mass before taking a break for the summer, Francis on Monday (June 20) said those who constantly judge people should instead reflect on their own behavior.

“Look in the mirror, but not to put on makeup to hide the wrinkles. No, no, no, that’s not the advice! Look in the mirror to look at yourself as you are,” the pope said, in a report by Vatican Radio.

“How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is still in your eye?” he continued. “And how does the Lord look at us then, when we do this? One word: ‘hypocrite.’ First take the log out of your eye, and then you shall see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.'”

Vatican Radio usually has a reporter present at the pontiff’s daily morning Mass in the small chapel at the Vatican guest house where Francis lives. The pope will continue to celebrate Mass daily as usual, but without coverage of his remarks.

In this latest homily, the pope said those who are overly critical of others rather than looking at themselves are viewed as hypocrites by the Lord, and should not try and take God’s place:

“Being judgmental is very ugly. Judgment belongs only to God, to Him alone!”

The pontiff instead urged his followers to focus on love, understanding and mercy — the latter being the theme of the Catholic Church’s current Holy Year jubilee.

His comments continue a central theme of his papacy, during which Francis has promoted a pastoral approach to Catholicism rather than the unforgiving imposition of canon law.

While such an approach has been widely praised, the pope has also been accused by traditionalists of trying to water down church doctrine.

Francis is famous — and controversial, to some — for once saying, in reply to a question on whether gay men could become priests, “Who am I to judge?”


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To: Gamecock

'Look in the mirror, but not to put on makeup to hide the wrinkles. No, no, no, that’s not the advice! Look in the mirror to look at yourself as you are,'

21 posted on 08/24/2016 10:56:22 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Gamecock; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; boatbums; CynicalBear; daniel1212; dragonblustar; Dutchboy88; ...

Ping


22 posted on 08/24/2016 10:57:34 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Gamecock

Judgment Warning: this guy is not fit to be the head of any Christian organisation. It is NOT about judging it is about right and wrong as biblically stated. Frankie has a problem with calling sin “sin.”


23 posted on 08/24/2016 10:57:38 AM PDT by madison10 (#OnlyTrump #NeverHillary)
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To: miss marmelstein

Apparently the Pope thinks there is an issue or he wouldn’t have said this.


24 posted on 08/24/2016 10:59:21 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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To: stockpirate

No, this pope lays down the Heavy Head Trip. The lies of the Devil.


25 posted on 08/24/2016 10:59:57 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Sacajaweau

I don’t hang around with prostitutes, pimps, drug pushers, rapists, bank robbers etc, etc. I certainly do have a right to judge.
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Which would Jesus hang around?


26 posted on 08/24/2016 11:00:17 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Its usually hypocritical because the people usually saying that are unhappy about being judged about something they are doing or advocating.


27 posted on 08/24/2016 11:02:12 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Gamecock

I wonder if the pope is remembering all the Huguenots who were slaughtered this day, St Bartholomew’s Day on August 24, 1572, when the Catholic pope of that time judged the Huguenots for their belief in the Christian Bible ???

The St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre wasn’t due to any love or understanding or mercy on the part of the Catholic assassins...

Frankie might well declare “Being judgmental is very ugly. Judgment belongs only to God, to Him alone!” but he would be better employed reflecting on the ugliness of the history of judgment and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church...

Other than the Crusades in which the Catholic popes got it right for once, and fought actual enemies of Christianity, most false judgment has fallen on innocent Protestant believers who were not a threat to Catholic people or lands...

When is the pope going to judge the moslems as bygone popes righteously did ???


28 posted on 08/24/2016 11:03:22 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Gamecock

If you don’t learn to judge others, you don’t learn from their mistakes and you don’t protect yourself from mishap. Used to think the same way the Pope directs and then realized that you don’t grow as a human being if you don’t have good judgement. If you are not judgemental, you would open all the prisons and let those that were judged to be a danger to us out into society.


29 posted on 08/24/2016 11:05:20 AM PDT by mia
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To: Gamecock
those who constantly judge people should instead reflect on their own behavior.

rational pursuit of goals requires doing both plus judging one's conditions and one's environment.

30 posted on 08/24/2016 11:07:15 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: bigdaddy45
Isn’t that basically the crowd Jesus hung out with?

Not after they met Him.

31 posted on 08/24/2016 11:08:26 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Gamecock

Dear Francis - Jesuit whore of Babylon,

 

Luke 17:1-4

17 Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. 2 It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. 3 So watch yourselves.

"If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. 4 If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent,' forgive him." NIV

What do Jesus' words Rebuke, Repent, and Forgive mean?

{ BTW, notice no Roman vesitigial plumage required for the Forgive part... }

=HLPhat

32 posted on 08/24/2016 11:08:38 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: bigdaddy45
So you think the apostles were of one of those categories?

He was trying to change the ways of the others.....not hanging with them.

33 posted on 08/24/2016 11:10:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Gamecock
In my opinion the passage in the bible the Pope is referring too is one of the most misunderstood in the whole bible.

Jesus was confronting a lawless MOB unlawfully about to condemn a prostitute to death.

1st of all, no one in the mob had the authority to cast judgement on the girl, and were thus about to commit murder themselves.

2nd, prostitutes don't have sex alone, and I am betting that in a small town many of the men there had been her clients, thus making them just as guilty as her!

3rd, there is no possible way to spread the word of how God wishes us to live our lives and what God does not wish us to do without JUDGING others behavior!

34 posted on 08/24/2016 11:10:12 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: Gamecock

Oh, bull.


35 posted on 08/24/2016 11:10:27 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: metmom

Are you serious? I am a devout Catholic and have no problem having my own opinion. The Pope is a human being, not Jesus, who asks us to be non-judgemental. How do you make a decision about bad or good if you don’t use judgement? We learn from others mistakes. . . some judgement needs to be used in those and all circumstances. Idealism and common sense sometimes are opposites.


36 posted on 08/24/2016 11:12:14 AM PDT by mia
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To: metmom

“What gives you the authority to sit in judgment on your church leaders?”

God. God gave all men reason, that we may use it to make judgements for ourselves. He wouldn’t have given it to us if He didn’t intend for us to use it.


37 posted on 08/24/2016 11:13:45 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: bigdaddy45

I think maybe you’ve watched the movie version of Jesus Christ Superstar too many times.

I think Jesus spent most of his time with his apostles and spoke to the multitudes.


38 posted on 08/24/2016 11:13:58 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: madison10

>>Frankie has a problem with calling sin “sin.”

His Jesuit order has a long tradition of “accommodating” whatever is convenient and profitable for “the company”:

http://www.google.com/#q=Jesuit+Accommodation

Got Syncretism?


39 posted on 08/24/2016 11:14:29 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Gamecock
Which would Jesus hang around?

Sorry, GC, the better question is which DID Jesus hang around with?

40 posted on 08/24/2016 11:14:54 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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