The Pope really doesn’t like Republicans
Spectator USA,
by
Damian Thompson
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
11/2/2020 4:19:45 AM
Last week we learned that Pope Francis has torn up the Catholic Church’s teaching that same-sex civil partnerships are gravely immoral. This week he will be rooting for the pro-abortion candidate in the US presidential election.
These two surreal developments are causing distress bordering on spiritual despair to conservative American Catholics. Whether you feel any sympathy for them depends on your point of view. The Pope, it is safe to say, is unlikely to lose any sleep over the matter.
Francis dislikes the United States in general and its president in particular.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 11/2/2020 4:27:42 AM (No. 592485)
And this is news? We all knew that years ago. This Pope was bought and paid for by George Soros.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Moritz55 11/2/2020 4:31:50 AM (No. 592488)
In the future, I suspect historians will be talking about this pope the way we talk about the worldly renaissance popes.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 11/2/2020 4:37:59 AM (No. 592491)
well i am a stauch catholic and i do not like this communist/marxist either
never liked him never willgod is not too happy with his guy///he said homos marriage
its ok...come on men
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 11/2/2020 5:05:41 AM (No. 592505)
The Pope really doesn’t like Republicans That's okay...he's not exactly on MY Christmas card list, either.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LaVallette 11/2/2020 5:32:39 AM (No. 592512)
Put your hand up all those who say that the Catholic Church forbids Catholics from going through a civil divorce. Thought so!!!!! Well the Church has a process for accepting that certain marriages fail for many reasons and couples separate and live apart, and also that other "marriages". whether contracted within the church itself or not, are null and void in the first place. The Church advises couples caught in these situations, (even if in the eyes of the church the first marriage was valid and therefore neither party to the marriage is allowed to contract a second marriage), that all parties concerned MUST also secure a civil divorce to ensure a just outcome in terms of the rights of each party to a share in the wealth accumulated during the marriage, to secure proper support for the weak, the disabled and the needy party and most importantly to ensure adequate arrangements are made for the welfare of any children that may have issued from the broken down marriage or annulment. The Church also insists that even in the case of de facto marriages, which it totally disapproves of, if they break down, the same rights that accrue to legally married partners should be extended to the parties in a de facto marriage and any children involved in particular. It is basically and issue of fundamental Natural Justice and not simply of Church dogma. What Pope Francis has said about same sex relationships is a similar and totally consistent with that regarding de facto marriage. The Catechism of the Catholic Church acknowledges the existence of people with same sex attraction and that they have a right to live their lives without any discrimination, and despite its own strong moral prohibitions to gay sexual practices and cohabitation arrangements, as with other extra marital sexual arrangements, it also knows and acknowledges that they will and do enter into cohabitation arrangements. So what the Pope is saving about such arrangements is that, despite the church's own moral objection to the practice, under the terms of Natural Justice and its own Notion of Justice and the prevention of exploitation and ill treatment of partners to such cohabitation arrangements, the State has a duty to introduce some form of legally recognized and enforceable "civil union" contract arrangements to protect the rights and obligations of all parties involved, even though the Church does not and will not approve in its rituals such living arrangements and it does not have too. This is a perfect example of giving to Caesar the rights that rightly belong to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God. Nothing new under the sun: everything in compliance with Church perennial teachings on Justice and protections of the civil rights of those who need it most.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rather Read 11/2/2020 6:38:49 AM (No. 592542)
Please, please let Cardinal Robert Sarah be the next pope!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NancyD 11/2/2020 7:33:05 AM (No. 592591)
#1 don't forget China.
When this pope is gone, if they select another liberal Pope, I think either Catholics will leave the Church or it will split. As it is right now, we are thisclose to leaving the Church I was raised on and that we've raised our kids, including Catholic schools. It's been a struggle for us, but believe me we are not alone.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FormerDem 11/2/2020 7:50:24 AM (No. 592616)
Deliberate, willful misunderstanding does not ever help. This is a caricature. Of interest, spreading a willfully wrong or exaggerated picture of someone else's faults is a type of sin, one of those lumped under the Eighth Commandment, You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor. Sounds like you need to listen to evangelization, not mock the minister of it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
swarfer 11/2/2020 7:52:50 AM (No. 592622)
Most Catholics like me probably ignore Pope Francis and consider him an errant child unable to keep from opening his mouth on any and every subject without regards to centuries of Church teaching or apparent knowledge on the subject. Most regard Benedict as the patriarch and Francis something of a Borgia.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TCloud 11/2/2020 8:02:50 AM (No. 592631)
He is a Socialist who uses Religion and GOD as a Political Convenience and not much will change that! Right Bert?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Namma 11/2/2020 8:04:06 AM (No. 592632)
Goes both ways!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/2/2020 8:23:29 AM (No. 592654)
#5, I am a Catholic. The church condemns the homosexual act, not the homosexual himself/herself. By endorsing civil unions, this pope is endorsing the homosexual act. He can’t possibly believe that two men (or women) in a civil union are going to be chaste and not indulge in what the church considers a mortal sin.
He is the reason I no longer attend mass and haven’t since last year. And the reason that, when the Sunday donation envelopes arrive in the mail, I run them through the shredder. As far as I’m concerned, B16 is my pope. When Francis is gone and if the church selects a true Catholic as the next pope, I may return.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jebediah 11/2/2020 8:33:22 AM (No. 592665)
Well, I am a Catholic and I don't much like this Pope! Nor most of the College of Cardinals or the U.S. Bishops, who claim to speak for us, but don't. You can't even CONTACT them with an opposing opinion...or ANY opinion. And the Church wonders why it is foundering.......
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/2/2020 8:52:32 AM (No. 592693)
I see non-denomination churches springing up all over the place and they are drawing crowds.
Many of these crowds are coming from fallen Catholics.
I listened at Mass last week and heard my new priest trying to excuse the Pope for allowing Homosexual Unions.
I will not let this Pope drive me from my Faith.
I believe in the Catholic Church, but I have serious problems with many of it;s Clerics.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
czechlist 11/2/2020 9:17:58 AM (No. 592739)
#5
The lipstick you put on the pig is bright red!
RCC = Roman Catholic Church and Red Communist China
Your waste of electrons explanation can be summed up the same as "...then you ain't black!".
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/2/2020 9:39:50 AM (No. 592770)
Defund the pope!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
AltaD 11/2/2020 9:40:10 AM (No. 592772)
FTA: There’s little appetite, even in liberal circles, for the catastrophic schism that would result.
Maybe, but I personally know conservative Catholics who have become open to the idea.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
4Justice 11/2/2020 9:45:57 AM (No. 592778)
We don't like phony, hypocritical, lying communist popes either.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 11/2/2020 10:38:45 AM (No. 592855)
It's because they don't like Communists, even when they are the Pope.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Talk2 11/2/2020 10:54:53 AM (No. 592881)
The guy is a communist and there is no way to sugar coat it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Italiano 11/2/2020 11:02:52 AM (No. 592890)
Pope False Prophet I. Believe me, it's mutual.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 11/2/2020 11:03:14 AM (No. 592891)
I keep getting the feeling that this pope isn't all too keen on religion either.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 11/2/2020 11:52:36 AM (No. 592940)
I think the pope is fine with religion and thinks it is useful. I am not so sure he really likes God who he supposed to be serving.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MorningStar 11/2/2020 11:56:00 AM (No. 592943)
I, too, share many of the concerns of the posters, especially those who still identify as Catholics. My very simple philosophy is that I would never cut off my nose to spite my face, and therefore, more importantly, will NEVER cut off the Grace-filled Holy Sacraments, which infuse my immortal soul. I don't wish to make the DEVIL DANCE IN DEMONIC GLEE over the LOSS OF MY SOUL. May our Beloved Lord Guard me. Amen.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
cheeflo 11/2/2020 12:24:32 PM (No. 592959)
I'm not convinced he likes Catholics, or any other Christians.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 11/2/2020 12:29:03 PM (No. 592964)
All of us need to get back to the God-breathed, Inspired, Holy Word of God.
This very flawed and wicked man is neither holy nor inspired of God.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
crashnburn 11/2/2020 4:15:14 PM (No. 593136)
"Is the Pope Catholic?" used to be a rhetorical question.
No more.
The answer is:
"Not that I can tell!"
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
LaVallette 11/3/2020 5:19:13 AM (No. 593528)
#16 " RCC = Roman Catholic Church and Red Communist China"
Such a "stretch" of the acronym RCC you broke it and be clowned yourself
There is no such thing as RCC = Red Communist China. You have confused and intermingled "PRC" + Peoples Republic of China and "CPC"= the Communits Party of China.
"RCC" does NOT encompass the entire Catholic Church either, but refers only to that part of it called the Latin Rite. There are another 23 Rites in the Catholic Church such as : The Greek Rite, the Maronites, the Chaldeans, the Armenians, the Melkites. etc etc etc all tied together by their allegiance to the Pope and the Church's universal Magisterium
Seems you need to swot up on your knowledge of Catholic before you comment again.
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