Posted on 10/22/2018 7:11:10 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, October 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Derogatory language is the latest cultural ill to make the subject of a lecture by Pope Francis, a man with his own history of colorful terminology for all manner of purported bad actors.
During weekly remarks Wednesday in St. Peter's Square, Breitbart reports that Francis lamented that the habit of insulting people has become as persistent as breathing.
Insulting others “is a way of killing a person’s dignity,” the pope declared. “It would be wonderful if this teaching of Jesus entered our minds and hearts, and each of us would say: ‘I will never insult anyone.’”
He cited passages in Matthew and John in which Jesus teaches that anyone who says “you fool” will be “liable to the hell of fire,” and that “All who hate a brother or sister are murderers.”
“Think of the gravity of insults, of contempt, of hatred. Jesus compares them to killing,” Francis observed,” noting that man “possesses a hidden ‘I’ that is no less important than his physical being.”
“To annihilate a man, just ignore him. Indifference kills,” he argued. “It is like saying to the other person: ‘You are dead to me,’ because you have killed him in your heart.”
While it is true that Christ taught compassion and humility in all things including language, He also deployed forceful, “insulting” language on occasion to identify sin, from “you brood of vipers!” to “O faithless and perverse generation!”
Francis himself is no stranger to insults, so much so that in 2013 Catholic blogger Laurence English released “The Pope Francis Little Book of Insults,” an online collection of various epithets the Holy Father has fired at various targets over the years.
“Mr. and Mrs. Whiner,” “superficial Christian,” “sloth-diseased,” “climbers...attached to money,” “pretender,” and “cursed,.......
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pope has learned the art of obscuring and obfusticating from the masters, bill and shrill.
Gee, I’m pretty sure that Jorge has insulted me many times over in his pronouncements from Rome.
Self-Absorbed Promethian Neo-Pelagian, here.
With a disordered attachment to Scripture and Tradition.
Guilty as charged. Deo gratias.
Insulting others “is a way of killing a person’s dignity,” the pope declared.
Paging the Great Accuser…would Cardinal Viganò please go to the nearest white courtesy phone.
Pope Francis should step down. He will never be able to lead the Church.
Hypocrite and viper!
I believe it was just a week ago that Franikie was calling anyone who wanted to investigate the sex abuse cover up allegations “agents of Satan”.
This “parrot,” son of “rabbits,” agrees with the Pope on this one.
The Dubia Cardinals are calling on line 2, holiness.
The pope famously said that God couldn’t have created the universe from nothing in 6 days because He doesn’t have a magic want.
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