The Pope wants to create a more "merciful church" by giving weaker sentences to sex offending priests. The DailyMail Reports: It has been revealed by church officials that Pope Francis overruled advice given to him by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith about two priests – allowing them to be punished by a lifetime of prayer.
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Punished by prayer?!! I always thought Christians liked to pray. How can that be a punishment? No doubt I won't get answer to my question by genuine christian.
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Punished by prayer?!! I always thought Christians liked to pray. How can that be a punishment? No doubt I won't get answer to my question by genuine christian.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"