Posted on 09/10/2019 5:47:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Tuesday he prayed that dissent from American Catholic conservatives would not lead to a schism in the Church and that he was willing to listen to critics and make corrections if necessary.
But in frank comments to reporters aboard the plane returning to Rome from a trip to Africa, he said he was not afraid of a schism. Some of his critics had allowed political ideology to infiltrate religious doctrine, he said.
It was the first time Francis has spoken so openly about the possibility of a schism in the 1.3 billion worldwide Roman Catholic Church, albeit in answer to a question.
Francis also implied that some of his critics were hypocrites for accusing him of being “a communist pope” even though he was saying the same things about social issues that had been said by the late Pope John Paul, who many conservatives consider an icon.
Francis has been the butt of criticism from a small but powerful number of American conservatives unhappy with his stands on various theological issues as well as social matters from immigration to climate change.
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He can avert it by leaving unitarianism and returning to Christianity.
Commies certainly know how to use projection.
Shouldn’t Frank be focused on growing the church instead of acting as a globalist tool?
Just throwing it out there.
Hitler would have LOVED this Pope.
Pope Obama...”If you like true Catholicism you can keep true Catholicism.”
I think you nailed it right there.
This guy never talks about Jesus. He’s a petty little king wannabe.
“Commies certainly know how to use projection.”
You got that right.
“Commies certainly know how to use projection.”
You got that right.
Not another Papal Bull, just more Papal Bull.
#NotMyPope
MY Pope was a polish guy that actually FOUGHT global communism, instead of facilitating it.
So, yeah, Frankie... I’M yer friggin’ schism, right here.
Kookoo.
Kookoo. Kookoo. Kookoo. Kookoo.
Alinsky 101: Always accuse your opponent of that which you, yourself, are guilty.
He is the schismatic. Catholics in dissent from his personal opinion being given the rank of doctrine are not just in the U.S.
I suggest the name “American Orthodox Church” or the "Western Orthodox Church".
I adhere to what I was taught during 10.5 years of Catholic school (1950s/1960s) as well as the teachings of Saint John Paul II.
Schism?? Is he for real?
Right on!!
Liberal American Catholics love the puke.
You’re right, lastchance.
This heretic is the schism.
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