(December 9, 2021 at 10:14 pm)Foxaire Wrote: Since he's such a prominent individual, I figure he deserves his own thread.
Pope Francis insists sexual sins are ‘not the most serious’
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/09/po...sex-pride/
I guess he's doing his best and his attitude about sins of the flesh is very liberal for a pope, even though he told a fib.
Hard to dislike such an affable, gentle old fart. IMO he's more dangerous than Ratzinger, the reactionary old turd he replaced. He will lull people into the false belief that he's actually going to change the church, and for the better. He isn't.
He said the church does not have the power to change sacraments. That's not quite right according to church doctrine: The church actually invented the seven sacraments. It can invent a new ones if it likes .Say one or more for non hetero individuals/couples.
The church has the power to change whatever it likes. It's church teaching that Jesus gave that power to Peter :
Matthew 18: 18 "Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven". (KJV)
That's the passage the Catholic church uses to justify its claim of the infallibility of the pope. Oddly, not one other Xian sect interprets that passage the same way.
