Posted on 09/11/2023 3:35:41 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis said the “reactionary attitude” among some American Catholics is “useless” in the face of doctrinal progress, ...
Francis, 86, commented at a meeting with Jesuits in Lisbon, Portugal, on Aug. 5 as part of his visit for the 2023 World Youth Day gathering. His remarks in La Civilta Cattolica, a magazine often featuring the pope’s candid statements in meetings with his fellow Jesuits.
Francis defined his American critics’ “reactionary attitude” as “organized and shapes the way people belong, even emotionally,” according to the Jesuit magazine. He said being “backward-looking,” or nostalgic for earlier times in the church, “is useless” and Catholics “need to understand that there is an appropriate evolution in the understanding of matters of faith and morals.”
Those who are part of a “climate of closure,” he said, “lose the true tradition” of the church “and turn to ideologies. … In other words, ideology replaces faith, membership of a sector of the church replaces membership of the church.”
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American Catholics, including some bishops, have criticized the Argentine-born pontiff in recent years as being too liberal in his attitudes about divorced Catholics, gays and transgender people and for restricting the use of the Traditional Latin Mass. His predecessor Benedict XVI allowed the Tridentine Mass more widely.
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Ping
Pope Marx continues to disappoint.
Who’s going to turn him around?
Pope Benedict XVI was the last TRUE Pope
The man is an abusive, victim blaming, gaslighter. Nevermind the fact that he’s an apostate.
Martin Luther had an attitude problem, also...
A “doctrine” is an ideology devised by the corrupt priest class.
“Who’s going to turn him around?”
To borrow from T. Jefferson, I tremble for Bergoglio when I reflect that God is just. That his justice cannot sleep forever.
I pray for the Holy Spirit to turn Pope Francis around. And I ask God to make him the man and Pope that God wants him to be.
“And I ask God to make him the man and Pope that God wants him to be.”
The Pope is a Communist, social justice advocate clean clear through. The Cardinals who elected him knew that up front and elected him anyway And now Catholics are stuck with him. As he has further stacked the College of Cardinals with his own ilk, the next Pope will be a clone of himself. Time for another schism.
“”sigh””.....Another anti-pope to try and destroy the church....Too bad these idiots never learn.....
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