Posted on 07/13/2013 5:39:18 AM PDT by haffast
Catholics must “watch their tongues” and resist the temptation to resolve disputes with “insults, slander, and defamation,” Pope Francis has said.
Delivering a homily at morning Mass on Thursday, which was attended by men and women who work at Argentina’s embassies and consulates to Italy and the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation in Rome, the Pope said: “There is no need to go to a psychologist to know that when we denigrates another person it is because we are unable to grow up and need to belittle others, to feel more important.
“Jesus, with all the simplicity says: ‘Do not speak ill of one another. Do not denigrate one another. Do not belittle one another’.”
The Pope went to say that “in the end we are all travelling on the same road that will take us to the very end,” before adding, “if we do not choose a fraternal path, it will end badly, for the person who insults and the insulted. If we are not able to keep our tongues in check, we lose.”
Pope Francis concluded: “I would ask the Lord to give us all the grace to watch our tongues, to watch what we say about others. It is a small penance, but it bears a lot of fruit.”
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LOL it probably wasn’t the best example to use.
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Specific examples, please?
Or are you anti Catholic and anti Pope?
Apparently the pope reads FreeRepublic...
I think he was referring to the Pope’s quote in his post. I disagree with his conclusion but I’m pretty sure that is what the poster was implying.
**Pope Francis concluded: “I would ask the Lord to give us all the grace to watch our tongues, to watch what we say about others.” “It is a small penance - he added - but it bears a lot of fruit.” “Sometimes, we go hungry and think, ‘What a pity I didn’t taste the fruit of a tasty comment against another person.” But, he said, “that hunger bears fruit in the long run is good for us.” That’s why we ask the Lord for this grace: to adapt our lives “to this new law, which is the law of meekness, the law of love, the law of peace, and at least ‘prune’ our tongues a little, ‘prune’ the comments that we make of others and outbursts that lead us to an easy anger or insult. May the Lord grant us all this grace”.**
I think me means “we” as in “you and also myself.” Pope Francis goes to confession every week because he is aware of his faults and failures. I admire that. It’s what I should do.
It is called today “political correctness”.
So you’re suggesting that our founders were politically correct?
No, rather the efforts of the left to control free speech.
They don’t control my ability to speak the truth without being unnecessarily insulting. The fact that they go out of the way to be insulting just provides an example of what behavior to avoid.
That is the most wise statement I have ever heard from a Pope. Wow. I am shocked. I still have a saved message from a catholic on here that will eventually come back to haunt that person. Never put insults in writing.
Don't forget that the Lord also said, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us".
“I would ask the Lord to give us all the grace to watch our tongues....
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I frequently pray for this.
I hope that includes the words spoken against Americans who support border security and the rule of law.
Good thing this pope wasn`t one of Jesus` discples traveling around the countryside with Him:
Matthew 16:22-24
King James Version (KJV)
22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, SATAN: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Matthew 23
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, HYPOCRITES!
For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[d] 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell[e] as yourselves.
16 “Woe to you, BLIND GUIDES, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred? 18 And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’
19 You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it. 22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, HYPOCRITES! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like WHITEWASHED TOMBS, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. 28 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, 30 saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
33 YOU SERPENTS, YOU BROOD OF VIPERS, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
34 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, 35 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah,[f] whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation
While I'm not one who usually entertains the parsing of words, I think it's instructive that the word, "unnecessary," was added there. Sometimes a mild insult can get an otherwise apathetic person's attention and reinforce a critical point. The example that readily comes to my mind would be a drill sergeant trying to drive home a point to a recruit about something that will ultimately be in that soldier's interest. One might call that a 'necessary' insult. Some might also perceive constructive criticism as insulting, but if the intent of the critic is sincerely for the benefit of the other person, that might be deemed a necessary insult.
I think the Pope deliberately included the word, "unnecessary" to differentiate between the above and those insults that are uttered purely with the intent to degrade and tear down, not those meant to build up.
... or those meant to achieve another goal in the interest of the one uttering it.
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