R. R. Reno said in the December issue of First Things: “[the Pope] is dangerously wrong when he suggests that the way forward is to obsess less [about sex]. The opposite is true. . . our age is already obsessed with sex. If we don’t speak—if our church leaders don’t speak—we’ll be absorbed into our culture’s way of thinking, and our children will be catechized by progressive creeds of sexual liberation.”
St. Augustine urged the faithful not to follow their bishops if the Bishops were not following holy scripture. "We may not assent to the teaching even of the Catholic bishops, if at any time they are deceived into opinions contrary to the canonical Scriptures of God; but if they should so fall into error, and yet maintain the bond of unity and charity, let the apostle's saying avail in their case: 'And if in anything ye are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.' Now these divine words have so manifest an application to the whole Church, that none but heretics in their stubborn perverseness and blind fury can bark against them." (Cf. Augustine's Reply to Faustus the Manichaean (Contra Faustum), book 11, 5.) Seems to fit some of today's controversies.
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and many agree two sides to this one, too. You always only see one side and can't really be much of a judge but, judge you surely do, You aren't a Catholic are you? so ease to have opinion when you don't know the territory
You're right; I'm not Catholic, and I haven't believed a thing the MSM wrote about Francis knowing how they twist anything about Catholicism. However, Reno and First Things are conservative R.C. and I felt safter quoting them. And, I assume you know who St. Augustine is. . .
And you always manage to get snarky. Lose the attitude. I like Pope Francis, I like that he washed the feet of some common people and he goes out and mingles with the people. He seems more like a Jesus figure than some others we've had. And I like that he's fired a few bishops if he feels they've overstepped.
Too bad you weren't so sensitive about the way Obama has been treating Catholics.
She agrees with the Pope, sees only one side, but complains that others see it differently and therefore they are judgmental? Sounds sort of judgmental.
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