(September 19, 2013 at 12:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Pope Frank doesn't understand that he is not captain of a cruise ship....he is captain of a pirate ship.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/2013091...HUCO2.html
Quote:Pope Francis has warned that the Catholic Church's moral structure might "fall like a house of cards" if it doesn't balance its divisive rules about abortion, gays and contraception with the greater need to make the church a merciful, more welcoming place for all.
Trouble looms.....
Quote:The admonition is likely to have sharp reverberations in the United States, where some bishops have already publicly voiced dismay that Francis hasn't hammered home church teaching on abortion, contraception and homosexuality - areas of the culture wars where U.S. bishops often put themselves on the front lines. U.S. bishops were also behind Benedict's crackdown on American nuns, who were accused of letting doctrine take a backseat to their social justice work caring for the poor - precisely the priority that Francis is endorsing.
Just last week, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote in his diocesan newspaper that he was "a little bit disappointed" that Francis hadn't addressed abortion since being elected.
If a change comes to christian beliefs..it will come from within.
It will change.....or it will start losing members.
Thats not good..for business....the business of Christianity.
Christianity..like the good virus it is...will mutate....EVOLVE...like times before........and LIVE ON.
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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
-- Mark Twain
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