[ChicagoConservative27]

WHAT THE.......................

[Steely Tom]

"Dirty Old Men Need Love Too"

—Poster from the early '70s

[ArcadeQuarters]

That’s exactly what a fake pope would say.

[CodeToad]

Let God love them, we’ll arrange the meeting!

[BipolarBob]

The Bible says they need a millstone around their neck and thrown into the sea. Who is correct?

[brownsfan]

Yeah, that will win people back to a rapidly declining Catholic church.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Friggin Frankie da Pope has lost all his rosary beads. The Church needs to go find a real Pope. That’s the only way it will survive.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The idiot is trying to make a conventional point about Christian love of your enemies and those for whom you feel revulsion, and the ability of anyone to achieve redemption, but he is completely tone-deaf with his example and how he presented it.

[eyeamok]

And if we put these Child Molesters in General Population in the local prisons, they will receive the “love” they deserve

[ridesthemiles]

THE ANTI-CHRIST ?????

[elpadre]

Yes, God does love us, but he doesn’t love some of the things we do. And as the good father he is, I suspect discipline of some kind is in order.

[rktman]

Drag show at the vatican?

[HYPOCRACY]

I’ve had enough of this pile of sub human garbage. Can’t wait for this POS to go home to his master in hell.

[Scarlett156]

The RC church is a home and shelter for the wicked in this day. On twatter various people still pimping the church because it’s a frontier for pr0n. “Sexy catholic women s**w like bunnies!” “I went to church wearing a sexy poofy dress today! I can’t wait to get home and have sex with my sexy sexy husband! We’re going to have a million kids!”

As a student in catholic school grades kindergarten through 8, I learned about corruption and favoritism; I learned that MONEY TALKS; I learned that it’s all right for priests to run card games and other grift/fraud scams because “separation of church and state” means we can commit crimes and get away with it.

(Note: I’m not claiming that I’m NOT a sinner. I know I am. I have a lot of things about me to fix. But my experiences with evil have helped me be able to identify it in a way very few others can. Thank you Jesus.)

[stanne]

In jail.

[crusty old prospector]

Has he run out of millstones?

[kenmcg]

Convinced the Pope impersonatoris the product of the devil. He sure isn't Christ like.

[trailboss800]

If the pope really said this, then he’s seriously confused.

[metmom]

And Jesus called hypocritical religious leaders in His day children of their father the devil.

No, not all people are children of God. God is everyone’s creator but that does not by default make them His children.

[Bob434]

Jesus called people far less repulsive “snakes” and “vipers” and kicked them out of the temple forcibly

[Campion]

I'm not any kind of +Francis fan, but I would encourage people to actually read the whole article.

Christ says we are to love our enemies, and pray for our persecutors. Note that "love" is not mindless approval, or fondness, or chumminess. Love is rather the conscious choice to pursue the authentic good of the beloved. The most important "authentic good" of an individual is eternity in heaven.

Ought we to love child abusers, that is, ought we help them to get to heaven? Of course. The first step in helping them is preventing them from committing their peculiar sin again, and the second is to bring them to authentic repentance and to commit to making restitution for the wrong they have done.

What the Pope said seems largely or completely consistent with what I said.