RE: He said it was time for the church to stop worrying so much about social issues like that.
Yes, and he actually shows what he stood for by EXCOMMUNICATING an Australian Priest who advocated gay marriage.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/09/27/pope-francis-excommunicates-australian-priest/
Between what he allegedly said (which people will misunderstand) and what he actually does, I’ll take the latter thank you.
“Yes, and he actually shows what he stood for by EXCOMMUNICATING an Australian Priest who advocated gay marriage.”
So you’re saying that as long as you don’t actively promote queer marriage or open an abortion clinic those issues don’t matter?
Perhaps you’re a liberal too?
“”In the first such excommunication since the new pontiff took office Fr Greg Reynolds was dismissed in a letter from the Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart, which stated that “the decision by Pope Francis to dismiss Fr Reynolds from the clerical state and to declare his automatic excommunication has been made because of his public teaching on the ordination of women contrary to the teaching of the Church and his public celebration of the Eucharist when he did not hold faculties to act publicly as a priest.”
Archbishop Hart also told other priests in the archdiocese by letter that Fr Reynolds’s excommunication was “because of his public teaching on the ordination of women”, which are grounds for automatic excommunication.””
It seems to be the ordination of women that got him.