Who doesn’t love Pope Francis? Hands up, if you dare. He opposes violence and war, supports the poor, focuses on the needs of the disabled, and talks about the need to suspend judgment of others. The videos of Pope Francis hugging children and asking nine-year-olds to pray for him are deliciously heartwarming. Decadently good. Baby panda falling off a slide good.Yet not everyone is happy. Some have compared Francis-fever to the worship of idols. The problem is not Francis’s interest in alleviating poverty. After all, Benedict and John Paul II cared about the poor, too. The issue is his statements about the issues of sexual morality that have monopolized the US Catholic Church of late.
In his interview in America magazine Francis expanded upon his famous “Who am I to judge?” line from his in-flight press conference in July by saying that the church has no right to "interfere spiritually" in the lives of gays and lesbians. He further added that despite being reprimanded for it, he didn’t think it was necessary to talk about abortion, gay marriage, and contraception all the time
idle worship? i was forced to attend Catholic church for a year, it's full of statues, graven images yo bow and make the sign of the cross when you enter, is that idol worship not trying to be facetious just keepin it real.
There have already been murmurings of discontent from US Catholic leaders. Bishop Thomas Tobin stated that he was slightly “disappointed” that the pope had yet to speak out about the abortion. And Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia acknowledged that some more conservative Catholics “generally have not been really happy” with Francis and that the pope will have to find a way “to care for them too.”
It seems that Francis’s oppressively forgiving position on not judging others has left some Catholics feeling marginalized and excluded. Imagine that.
this says the Bishops and sort are murmuring, but nothing as to a mass lashing out of the flocks, in fact abortion 95% have used or are using it looks like they need to take a look at their rules and see how many are for it and those that reject it.
i think some would find this as a chance to exhale, those that are gay and their friends and family and those who disagree with the church doctrine of exclusion, times are changing those who don't, see ya!
