Pope Blasts American Catholics for Putting Political Ideology Above Faith
He was responding to a Portuguese Jesuit who said that he had seen Catholics critical of the pope's leadership during a year-long sabbatical in the United States.
Francis has received criticism from some conservative sectors of the U.S. Catholic Church who oppose reforms, including making the church more welcoming and less judgmental towards some, including the LGBTQ+ community.
"You have been to the United States and you say you have felt a climate of closure. Yes, this climate can be experienced in some situations. But in this way, the true tradition is lost and one turns to ideologies for support. In other words, ideology replaces faith, belonging to a sector of the Church replaces belonging to the Church."
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-us...th-1822802
And what exactly does it mean to be "welcoming and less judgmental towards the LGBTQ+" in the Catholic church? Does this mean that priests should allow them to be part of the congregation or does it just mean that priests should not hold hate speech against them? And what about Ratzinger's policy of not allowing gay men to become priests--is that still on?
He was responding to a Portuguese Jesuit who said that he had seen Catholics critical of the pope's leadership during a year-long sabbatical in the United States.
Francis has received criticism from some conservative sectors of the U.S. Catholic Church who oppose reforms, including making the church more welcoming and less judgmental towards some, including the LGBTQ+ community.
"You have been to the United States and you say you have felt a climate of closure. Yes, this climate can be experienced in some situations. But in this way, the true tradition is lost and one turns to ideologies for support. In other words, ideology replaces faith, belonging to a sector of the Church replaces belonging to the Church."
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-us...th-1822802
And what exactly does it mean to be "welcoming and less judgmental towards the LGBTQ+" in the Catholic church? Does this mean that priests should allow them to be part of the congregation or does it just mean that priests should not hold hate speech against them? And what about Ratzinger's policy of not allowing gay men to become priests--is that still on?
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"