Pope Francis condemned the “very strong, organised, reactionary attitude” in the US church and said Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.
Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the US Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.
Francis’ comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions in the US Catholic Church, which has been split between progressives and conservatives who long found support in the doctrinaire papacies of St John Paul II and Benedict XVI, particularly on issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.
Pope Francis is completely right.
I’d say he’s left
That’s the thing. He’s not. At all. He stayed on the right and America moved past him. The Catholic Church literally supported Nazis back in the day.
When the leader of one of the most prominent conservative organizations in history says you’re too conservative, you know shit is going wrong.
Pope Francis’ condemnation indicates that at least they learned from that mistake.
Where “learning” from that mistake means:
“Hey, check what most people have been thinking about X for the past 50 years… OK, we’ll support that”
To be fair that’s because Hitler lied about being the most catholic ever and by the time they realized who he really was Italy was in too deep.
Dude was actually going to ban Catholicism after awhile, had already made a banned religions list that was slowly working its way up.
Unsurprisingly Judaism was the first on this list, more surprisingly Ievoha’s Witness was the second.
JWs were only targeted because their leader went out of his way to piss off Hitler:
https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/hitler-nazi.php
Pope Francis was 9 years old when WW2 ended, so get off your high horse.
Because the Church didn’t exist before the current Pope?
Also historical facts are a “high horse” now? Have we really fallen so far that reality is unacceptable?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_Nazi_Germany
“Nevertheless, the Catholic-aligned Centre Party voted for the Enabling Act of 1933, which gave Adolf Hitler additional domestic powers to suppress political opponents as Chancellor of Germany”
Thanks for confirming what I said. Catholics supported facisim regardless of what their leader said, just like today.