Posted on 06/02/2019 7:02:58 AM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis said he has always been a doctrinal conservative and takes accusations of being a heretic with a grain of salt.
“I have always defended doctrine,” the pope told Mexican reporter Valentina Alazraki in a lengthy interview released Tuesday by Vatican News. “I am a conservative.”
Asked how he reacts to being called a heretic, the pope said he takes it “with a sense of humor.”
Just weeks ago, a group of 19 Catholics, including clergy and scholars, questioned the pope’s theological orthodoxy, accusing him of “heresy” in an open letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church.
“I also pray for them because they are mistaken and I saw poor people, some of whom are manipulated,” the pope said. “I saw who the people were who signed.”
“No, seriously, a sense of humor and I would say tenderness, paternal tenderness,” he said. “I mean, it doesn’t hurt at all. I’m hurt by hypocrisy, lying, that hurts me. But a mistake like that, where there are even people whose heads have been filled with ideas. No, please, we have to take care of them too, we have to take care of them.”
The pope said that his words are often taken out of context, such as his famous line “Who am I to judge?” in reference to a homosexual priest who was trying to live a chaste life.
Francis said that his belief in the immorality of homosexual acts has not changed and that “it is a contradiction to speak of homosexual marriage.”
The pope also said that he misspoke when he said that teenagers who manifest a homosexual tendency should be taken to see a psychiatrist. “I meant to say a professional,” he said.
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So many liberals are liars... they're tying to tell us something...
If he really was a Conservative, he would’t have to say so.
His ASSHoliness - Pope Francis the Worst
Wouldn’t a conservative pope have been on the front lines to stop Ireland from voting to legalize homosexual marriage and abortion, instead of completely AWOL? never mind the USA and Britain before that?
Popes aren’t elected by Catholic lay people.
The pope is a lying socialist if not Marxist.
Yes he’s a conservative. He’s conserving and promoting the Islamic invasion and take-over. And communism at the same time. All that requires a lot of his time. So, no biblical moral values on his to- do list
Being called a liar and a fraud is funny???
He is a chameleon, the same as Satan. Ever changing to appease the world.
Echoes of mittens claiming to be “severely Conservative”
Now that we know he identifies as a conservative, we need to know if he also identifies as a female.
I guess Pelosi and Schumer are conservatives too - whodathunkit?
Sure. He also claims to be Catholic.
YOU LIE!
bergoglio is a bum.
now he is a stand up comedian as well!
Doing the Richard M.Nixon again?!
“I’m a COMMUNIST!” There fixed it.
This communist heretic must think we’re all stupid. And since he doesn’t know the Bible, he forgets the Lord Jesus proclamation that: “By their fruits you shall know them.”
This communist heretics fruit is rotten to the core.
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