Pope Francis: 'God is not afraid of new things'

Courier Journal - USA Today ^ | 10-20-14 | Eric J. Lyman

[kidd]

link to the article
http://archive.courier-journal.com/usatoday/article/17551189?odyssey=tab|topnews|img|nation

[GBA]

Somebody must be smoking something.

Sure looks like it more often than not these days. And they're inhaling and holding it, too.

Quite a talent. In such a windswept house, I'm surprised they can get one lit to pass around.

[rockrr]

He sounds like some kinda homopope....

[Mr. K]

are you shure?

[MeshugeMikey]

God is NOT Afraid of.. Eric J. Lyman

As far as I can see.....Pope Francis does not appear to Fear The Lord

[Robert DeLong]

He certainly seems to be fulfilling that prophecy. Is there is a way to remove the Pope?

[Salvation]

God may not be afraid, but he is judgmental.

Why do we think the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah happened?

And it’s going to happen again if the modern world does not change its ways.

[Salvation]

Live source please.

[LostInBayport]

there isn’t anything that’s “new” to God.

That was my take as well. This comment seems to suggest that we can teach God something. Ah, no.

I think more than anything this Pope has said, this statement disturbs me the most. Perhaps something was lost in translation?

[Blue Collar Christian]

GMTA. I went to the same comment right out of my mouth upon reading the headline.

[NKP_Vet]

“It also exposed a wide rift between conservative and liberal-minded leaders”.

Misleading. Catholic bishops that live their faith and understand that doctrine CAN NOT CHANGE, voted 2 to 1 against the radical proposals for homosexuals that Francis tried his best to get in the report. Homosexual “unions” will never be allowed in the Catholic Church.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030731_homosexual-unions_en.html

This homosexual talk has came up before, it’s nothing new.
Here are the words of Joseph Cardina Ratzinger, approved by Saint John Paul II.

11. The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behaviour or to legal recognition of homosexual unions. The common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity. The Church cannot fail to defend these values, for the good of men and women and for the good of society itself.

The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience of March 28, 2003, approved the present Considerations, adopted in the Ordinary Session of this Congregation, and ordered their publication.

Rome, from the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, June 3, 2003, Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and his Companions, Martyrs.

Joseph Card. Ratzinger
Prefect

Angelo Amato, S.D.B.
Titular Archbishop of Sila
Secretary

[Sans-Culotte]

This may seem like an obvious question, but I have to ask: “Is the Pope Catholic?”

[Rinnwald]

Ultimate hubris: We need to get God hip to our “new” perversions.

[marshmallow]

As always seems to be the case with this Pope, there's a straw man and/or a distraction.

God is not "afraid" of anything, old or new. Whoever said that he was?

And what does fear have to do with the unchanging word of God who is the same, yesterday, today and forever [Heb 13:8]?

[afsnco]

He’s right that God is not afraid of sin, if that’s what he’s talking about. God will mercilessly torture the unrepentant depraved in hell and the lake of fire for all eternity.

[minnesota_bound]

His name is “Frances” so you gotta expect this from him.... : )

[pepsi_junkie]

It’s only a matter of time before some Cardinal scrambles to a microphone to inform us that we totally misunderstood the Pope and he really means “there is no change, God and his word are eternal.” Simple translation error, of course. Happens all the time. Well, all the time to this one particular guy anyway.

[piusv]

If he's not, then he's not the Pope.

A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically (per se) ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of all the ancient Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.

- St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church

[GBA]

Yeah, you’re probably right, but he’s got me really missing John Paul II.

[piusv]

So the Catholic Church produced only 2 saint popes from 1566 to 1958 and the Novus Ordo Church has basically had nothing but saint popes: three in less than 60 years (and more to come!)

Hmmmm......