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Pope says Africans are 'special case' when it comes to LGBT blessings
Reuters (on their own site) ^
| January 29, 2024
| Reuters staff writers
Posted on 01/30/2024 8:51:33 AM PST by Salman
VATICAN CITY, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said in an interview published on Monday that Africans were a "special case" in the opposition of bishops and many other people in the continent to homosexuality.
But he said he was confident that, except for Africans, critics of his decision to allow blessings for same-sex couples would eventually understand it.
Blessings were allowed last month in a document called Fiducia Supplicans (Supplicating Trust), which has caused widespread debate in the Catholic Church, with particularly strong resistance coming from African bishops.
"Those who protest vehemently belong to small ideological groups," Francis told Italian newspaper La Stampa. "A special case are Africans: for them homosexuality is something 'bad' from a cultural point of view, they don't tolerate it".
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apostasy; heresy; homosexualagenda; lgbt; lgbtq; prolife; racism; racist
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The Pope is old enough to remember when homosexuality was bad from a cultural point of view in Europe and the Americas. I suppose the idea is we're more culturally "evolved" than Africans.
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posted on
01/30/2024 8:51:33 AM PST
by
Salman
To: Salman
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posted on
01/30/2024 8:56:08 AM PST
by
rhinohunter
(Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.)
To: Salman
Precisely. The Africans are too primitive to embrace the gayness, per Pope Francis. In other words…racist!
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posted on
01/30/2024 8:56:21 AM PST
by
Orosius
(Wake America Up Again )
To: Salman
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:00:48 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: Salman
Bergoglio is socialist scum. Lord Haste the Day that this man departs the Throne of St. Peter and is replaced by a good and God-fearing CATHOLIC!
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:01:05 AM PST
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
To: Salman
Translation: Primitive people are too backwards to appreciate the beauty of shlong/bunghole couplings.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:01:30 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: Salman
The Pope likes...
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:01:57 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
To: Salman
We “understand” that the Pope is really the anti-Pope.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:02:19 AM PST
by
cgbg
("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
To: Salman
It’s good to know what happened to St. Charles Lewanga and his companions because they refused to ‘Celebrate Pride’ with the Ugandan King is understood as ‘bad.’
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:02:33 AM PST
by
rwilson99
(How exactly would John 3:16 not apply to Mary?)
To: Orosius
A strong tree rots from the inside out. Which is what the West is doing; Our Churches, governments, Colleges, and now even big businesses.
The Marxist inspired woke rot.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:02:47 AM PST
by
Phoenix8
To: Salman
I think I identify as an African-Catholic.
Holy Martyrs of Uganda, pray for us
St. Cyprian, pray for us
Tertullian pray for us
Archbishop Lefebvre, pray for us.
To: rhinohunter
One thing we should learn about Africans is a reminder every time we drink coffee. We call it that because kaffir in Arabic means "infidel". The Muslim army tried the Siege of Vienna in the 17th century and failed. The injured jihadists left behind were interrogated and that's when the Europeans learned about the caffeine drink made from beans the Muslims imported from the "infidel" Ethiopians.
Over the centuries there were repeated times that the Muslim caliphates told Ethiopia to convert or die. Christian Ethiopia refused to convert and defended themselves successfully every time. What the Muslims couldn't conquer they made trade relations with and imported the beans, calling them infidel beans because the Christians in Ethiopia WOULD RATHER DIE THAN BETRAY JESUS. Of course, "infidel" in Arabic is kaffir, which we transliterated to coffee.
So every time you drink a cup, tell Jesus that you're sticking to Him and His ways like glue, no matter what the commie pope or anybody else says or does.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:05:37 AM PST
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Salman
Good African Christians are being slaughtered so it is a waiting game for him anyway.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:06:13 AM PST
by
Sertorius
(A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
To: Salman
Joe Biden says that he is a pope Francis Catholic. In this rare case, I believe Joe Biden this one time.
Joe is also an acolyte of the anti-Christian Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:06:46 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: MeganC
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:06:50 AM PST
by
Publius
To: rhinohunter
This is a false church. Christians must leave or pay for her sins.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:10:10 AM PST
by
erkelly
To: Salman
Does this “pope” EVEN HAVE a Bible?!
What a racist!
How does any Catholic put up with this?
Isn’t there some Catholic, somewhere who can nail truth to the front door of the Vatican?
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:10:23 AM PST
by
Ken Regis
(I concur - “little” relative to what?)
To: Tell It Right
Interesting, perhaps this why the strange war the WEF is conducting against coffee.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:12:20 AM PST
by
erkelly
To: Salman
So I wonder what happens to a faithful African Bishop who’s not in Africa? Is he excepted or will he still be cancelled for not going homo?
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:14:51 AM PST
by
rhinohunter
(Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.)
To: Salman
Disgusting old racist communist pervert anti-pope.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:15:25 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
(2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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