I know this will stir up a nest of bees but I have lost all respect for the Catholic Church over the abortion issue. I cannot take them serious that they are against abortion when Catholic politicians who are pro abortion are still considered Catholics and not publicly denounced by the Catholic Church.
That’s what happens when you dis the boss.
Adam will be thinking “oops” soon, if not already. There comes a time when you give a good and kind old man some room for error, especially when his political experience has been narrow, compared to your own, and dangerous and corrupt.
I know this will stir up a hive of bees but I have lost all respect for the Catholic Church over the abortion issue. I cannot take them serious that they are against abortion when Catholic politicians who are pro abortion are still considered Catholics and not publicly denounced by the Catholic Church, not only that many Catholics vote for pro abortion candidates.
Somehow having doubts about the Pope will compromise his objectivity when it comes to films, comics and video games?
“Journalistic objectivity” is compromised by not being 100% sycophantically supportive of everything the Pope does.
Just be glad it isn’t 1610. [Or earlier.]
Unfortunately since Vatican II the church has become weak and for the sake of “getting along” has lost it’s true identity. We have accepted revisionist history and that is mistake number one. With this a vacuum has been created and bishops and priests have become ignorant or compromised. This is why Catholics aren’t attending mass. The vacuum caused by the weakness has allowed evil to advance and corrupt. For the world to be saved She must be saved and brought back strong.
Personally I’m fighting this battle and I shall NEVER give up on humanity for we have been entrusted to save it.
Is he excommunicated too? Pretty neat how this guy just opens his mouth to give an honest opinion shared by many honest observers and loses his job, but when Catholic Pro-Abortions go to hob-nob with the supreme pontiff, they don’t hear a whimper.
From reading quotes from this Pope, it is becoming obvious that the Pope is to the Catholic Church what Obama is to the United States. Looks like they voted in a “political” Anti-Christ just like we did. What a shame. The church was beginning to look like a good refuge for Episcopal refugees...not now. So still seeking safe haven.
A video game reviewer (really some great expertise there), what earth shattering news.
“Well, if there is one strategy I have seen deployed more than any other in my years of experience with anti-Catholic apologists it is this: Whenever it can be done, organizations bent on attacking the Church love to put forward Catholics—preferably cradle Catholics—to say “I was raised Catholic, and I can tell you for a fact that the Church’s teaching on X is garbage and you can safely ignore it”. It is the strategy of everybody from atheists, to Fundamentalists, to the Democratic party whenever they trot out Pelosi and Biden and Sebelius to chatter about the glories of Planned Parenthood. And sure enough, it is the strategy of FOX who—swimming in money and able to pick from a vast pool of real talent ranging from Fr. Robert Sirico on the Right, to Fr. Robert Barron in the center, or John Allen, Jr. on the Left (all of whom have sufficient credentials to offer something like a serious analysis and critique of Francis’ thought)—instead tapped a young video game reviewer named Adam Shaw to pen the hit piece. Why? Because hit pieces need no qualifications beyond “I was raised Catholic and I can tell you...” The unthinking platitudes, shallow analysis and mendacity can flow, unencumbered by the thought process when your sole goal is to poison the well. Then all you need do is make sure Drudge links it (as he dutifully has) and the conservative Catholics FOX seeks to poison against Francis are sent the clear message that this is not some Outsider attacking the Church, this is a True Catholic defending the Church from our dangerous new pope”
He’s in trouble because Obama doesn’t like being compared to the Pope and the Pope doesn’t want to be compared to Obama, but they both appear to come from the same cloth.
The problem with that is that I look at Pope Francis, and then at Barry…and I go “…really, Adam?”
I think he meant the pope is a socialist.. and there is no doubt of that
I honestly find this whole dust up rather odd. The Pope said he is for a more controlled economy, and not for the type of crony economy that he grew up with.
So what. That has pretty much been what the Catholic church has taught in the 20th and now 21st century. Go read Chesterton and Belloc’s works on the economy. They advocated a VERY controlled economy in the 1890’s.
Here is the original Fox News article discussed on FR:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3098553/posts?page=1