Religion Pope Francis: Church rules on homosexuality, contraception, abortion are 'small-minded'

[Caesar]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-...ust-shake-off-homosexuality-obsession/4970058

Vale Pope Francis. I regret your pending 'death by heart failure'.

 

[samFFC]

So refreshing!

 

[skilts]

Arguably, the most dangerous man chistianity has had since christ, judging by these comments.

 

[skilts]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-...ust-shake-off-homosexuality-obsession/4970058

Vale Pope Francis. I regret your pending 'death by heart failure'.

Hale the martyr!

 

[Damon_3388]

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Sounds like a "See we're hip with contemporary Western opinion" bone.

 

[Caesar]

The Catholic Church doesn't throw bones. To have a Pope talking like this will be creating a lot of disquiet within the Vatican.

 

[evo]

Modern day Faust!

 

[Sanders]

He was "elected" for the purpose of modernising the church & eliminating the sleaze and corruption in the Vatican

He's doing what was too big a job for his predecessor, thus he "decided" to retire

 

[Damon_3388]

The Catholic Church doesn't throw bones. To have a Pope talking like this will be creating a lot of disquiet within the Vatican.

Along with the outing of pedophile priests and the admission of guilt and cover-ups (an entirely different issue I know), this is disquiet that needs to be made IMO.

 

[Qsaint]

The Catholic Church doesn't throw bones. To have a Pope talking like this will be creating a lot of disquiet within the Vatican.

He is a Jesuit

Always a high risk choice. Pell thought he was a conservative well he got that one wrong.

 

[Contra Mundum]

Sounds like a "See we're hip with contemporary Western opinion" bone.

Jesus Christ that is very pusillanimous - maybe his exposure to actual poverty in Argentina might have focused on the role of the Church as comforter and alms giver - instead of the hateful bullshit that spews from a Son of Privilege like George Pell railing against those animist Greenies with his rich mates at the ******* Melbourne Club

The Js in Australia have unequivocally and abjectly apologised for any child abuse and given free access to the files in their care and control against their legal advice - Pell on the other hand.....

 

[blackcat]

Jesus Christ that is very pusillanimous - maybe his exposure to actual poverty in Argentina might have focused on the role of the Church as comforter and alms giver - instead of the hateful bullshit that spews from a Son of Privilege like George Pell railing against those animist Greenies with his rich mates at the ******* Melbourne Club

The Js in Australia have unequivocally and abjectly apologised for any child abuse and given free access to the files in their care and control against their legal advice - Pell on the other hand.....

quarterly essay david marr shud b a good read

 

[blackcat]

He is a Jesuit

Always a high risk choice. Pell thought he was a conservative well he got that one wrong.

wasnt the first thing wont be the last thing. pell has a habit

/not really down wif da garb meself

 

[clogged]

Why do Catholic priests all wear yarmulkes?

 

[Caesar]

It's a zucchetto.

I forget the religious significance but they are frequently used as personal gifts. The Pope often gives it to his visitor after an audience.

 

[placebo]

The Jesuits are a decent bunch. Much more interesting to listen to than the likes of Pell, and tend to have that almost Jewish quality of self-critical inward thinking.

 

[Gus Poyet]

So he's just saying what the rank and file members have been thinking for years. No big deal.

 

[Pie eyed]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-...ust-shake-off-homosexuality-obsession/4970058

Vale Pope Francis. I regret your pending 'death by heart failure'.

Can't believe I missed this thread.
Obviously they have a Pope who can see the writing on the wall and admits it.
Kudos.
Your last point is probably right though.

 

[blackcat]

The Jesuits are a decent bunch. Much more interesting to listen to than the likes of Pell, and tend to have that almost Jewish quality of self-critical inward thinking.

yeah, well, jesuits, boarders, ballarat, inward thinking

not really reconcile as kosher innit

 

[sabre_ac]

"In a dramatically blunt interview with an Italian Jesuit journal, Francis said the church had "locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules" and should not be so prone to condemn"

Very refreshing to read, far too much time is wasted on focusing on outdated rules and damnation. There is room in the modern world for the Church as an organization if they focus on their main role, charity and helping those in times of hardship.

 

[evo]

The Jesuits are a decent bunch. Much more interesting to listen to than the likes of Pell, and tend to have that almost Jewish quality of self-critical inward thinking.

Thomas Merton is worth reading.

 

[skilts]

All of which sits rather badly with the recent excommunication and defrocking of an Australian priest , for advocating gay marriage and the rights of women within the church

 

[blackcat]

Modern day Faust!
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more apt considering the Pacher's anthropomorphising of the gluteus maximus.

 

[blackcat]

Sounds like a "See we're hip with contemporary Western opinion" bone.

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