(February 26, 2013 at 9:49 am)cato123 Wrote: This statement is simply absurd. What media contrives shock and outrage that the Pope is Catholic?You are the one contriving.
Hi Cato123,
I was making a joke with my statement there.
Whenever a new Pope is to be elected, many media outlets run stories like "this would be a great opportunity for the Church to modernise, and embrace abortion, homosexuality and euthanasia".
Then, when this inevitably does not happen, they express outrage about "medieval thinking" or the Church "going backwards" or whatever. (Ultimately, they are disappointed when the new person upholds the doctrines - why? because they are a Catholic).
Its all just media smoke and mirrors - they know the Church will not change ('modernise' is an erronous term) and are only suggesting it might, so they can then later attack it on grounds that it didnt.
It is cheap, lazy journalism and - while that usually annoys me - we Catholics do allow outselves a chuckle on occasions like these.
And when it comes to matters like abortion, homosexuality or euthanasia, it is not about modern versus antiquated opinions, it is about the truth versus error.
The truth doesnt change, hence Catholic teaching doesnt change.
