Judging people ... I agree. Judging sin ... well, aren’t we called to do that? To call out our brothers and sisters when they err? We need to hold each other accountable. Otherwise, sinful behavior gets watered down.
Has this misguided, worldly Pope never read the entire Matthew 7:1-6 passage, particularly verse 5?
I also question if the Pope is familiar with 1 Corinthians 5:12 and 1 Corinthians 6:1-6.
Most of the Bible is a textbook instructing Christians how to judge others.
But this is the pope. My Catholic friends tell me the Bible isn’t important in relation to what a fallible man in an unfashionable hat decrees. So if you’ve got that going for you, i.e., blind obedience by church members, you can say/do anything. It’s good to be pope.
I think... I think I’m just about done putting up with the stuff that comes out of his mouth so regularly.
Were I were a catholic I’d swear the Pope is insane as illary and obummer! As a Jew just saying.
Judgement, discernment, and discrimination are survival traits. Christianity is not a suicide pact. In fact, suicide is a mortal sit.
So yes, we get to judge others. We don’t get assign them Heaven or Hell, but we sure as heck do get to decide how to react to them.
"Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?... And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?... Do you not know that we shall judge angels?... How much more, things that pertain to this life?.. If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge ? (1 Corinthians 6:1-5).
Many commands of God require the exercise of righteous judgment.
"But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us" (2 Thessalonians 3:6).
"And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother" (2 Thessalonians 3:14,15).
"Teach and exhort these things. If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wrangling of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself" (2 Timothy 6:2b-5).
"Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple" (Romans 16:17,18).
All these commands require the careful exercise of righteousness judgment. Do not be deceived by smooth words and flattering speech. Beware of wolves who come to you with a sheep's skin.
We must be careful not to make unqualified judgments. But we must judge appropriately when commanded to do so.
"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment." (John 7:24). with ignorance after all.
So Frankie is being judgmental of his own flock?
Watch this pope with the issue of not being judgemental. I have a feeling he is setting the stage for forcing upon us his feelings about homosexuality, divorced catholics and other things.
It is wrong telling Catholics to be non-judgemental. A Catholic is forced to be judgemental about sin by the lord Jesus Christ. Why else would he have left us all the parables about how to behave. I think the pope is very wrong in trying to destroy that part of the Catholic mindset. What’s more, I think he knows and it is deliberate. How else do you undermine a Catholic’s way of determining what is right and what is wrong?
Watch this guy! He could lead many astray.
Watch this pope with the issue of not being judgemental. I have a feeling he is setting the stage for forcing upon us his feelings about homosexuality, divorced catholics and other things.
It is wrong telling Catholics to be non-judgemental. A Catholic is forced to be judgemental about sin by the lord Jesus Christ. Why else would he have left us all the parables about how to behave. I think the pope is very wrong in trying to destroy that part of the Catholic mindset. What’s more, I think he knows and it is deliberate. How else do you undermine a Catholic’s way of determining what is right and what is wrong?
Watch this guy! He could lead many astray. Where is Bishop Sheen when you need him?