When will this Pope learn to be cautious with his remarks?
This Pope is a Marxist.
Good question. He doesn’t have the scholarly discipline of the German pontiff or the theologian’s caution of John Paul II. His work is pastoral, and culturally speaking Latin-Americans have a loosey-goosey way with language and this may be affecting his communications.
When will the Devil's minions learn to stop twisting words to fit their sick agenda?
In this case, I think he was absolutely right. This is a problem: should we deny the Gospel to people who, through no fault of their own, have been brought up in an “irregular” circumstance?
No. And we shouldn’t deny it to their “parents,” either, because nobody knows what was behind this. However, people have to repent of anything that is a sin and promise not to return to it...and Pope Francis has been better than any pope on preaching repentance, confession and forgiveness.
We can’t condemn kids for their parents’ confusion, because normally, it’s not ill-will - it’s just confusion, enhanced by a confused society during a time when the Church had abandoned morality. Francis wants to bring it back, but not to punish those who went astray, and instead, to welcome them back.
This is media spin. It is not what the Pope said.