Posted on 11/15/2018 3:05:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Pope Francis said Wednesday that those who spread gossip are terrorists whose words are grenades that destroy other people’s reputations.
“Gossipers are killers,” the pope told the 20,000 pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly audience. “They kill others because the tongue kills like a knife. Be careful!”
“A gossiper is a terrorist, because with his tongue he throws a bomb and then walks away, but that tossed bomb destroys the good name of others. Do not forget: to gossip is to kill,” he said.
In his remarks, the pope was reflecting on the eighth commandment of the Decalogue: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”
What does it mean to tell the truth? The pontiff asked. “Does it mean being honest? Or being precise? In reality, this is not enough, because one can be sincerely mistaken, or one can be precise in detail but not grasp the meaning of the whole.”
Being truthful goes beyond just being factual, Francis suggested, and becomes a way of life.
“Sometimes we justify ourselves by saying, ‘But I said what I felt!’ Yes, but you have absolutized your point of view,” he said. “Or, ‘I just told the truth!’ Maybe, but you have revealed some personal or confidential facts. How often gossip destroys communion because it is inappropriate or lacking in sensitivity!”
“Where there are lies there is no love, there can be no love,” he said. “And when we talk about communication between people we mean not only words, but also gestures, attitudes, even silence and omissions. A person speaks with everything he is and does. We are all in communication, always.”
“We all live by communicating and we are constantly poised between truth and falsehood,” he said.
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It’s a dangerous world we live in when the two biggest threats are climate change and gossip.
I am so done with this guy. And I’m Catholic!
CC
Those without sin shall cast the first stone. Remember that one? You fake pope! Your ramblings on about climate change is nothing but gossip.
It’s what is expected from a socialist pope....
So then those who spread the lies perpetrated by the Cult of Climate Change are? Climate Terrorist?
First, he is worried about the damage that Vigano is inflicting on the Church by telling the truth about him and his lavender mafia. To combat that, he is using the standard postmodern/Marxist technique of controlling the language (i.e. he is redefining "truth telling" as "gossip"...and then in this article telling us that gossip is murder).
Secondly, in his world (homo-world), gossip is a real problem. Here's an article that explains it...
Why Gays Are Programmed To Gossip
The Devil spends every day playing to win and this guy seems to spend every day playing with himself.
“Where there are lies there is no love, there can be no love”
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Human society cannot function without white lies that smooth over rough points that would offend. I overly praise my wife’s cooking to make her feel good. I tell a student he did “great” to encourage him.
Subtlety and depth of thought are not Frankie’s strong suit. The Leftist Jesuits are famous for their foolish ideas, and Frankie does their reputation proud.
Right-thinking Cardinals need to purge this idiot pope before he utterly destroys the Catholic Church.
What a grand way to cheapen the language once again. So the word “terrorist” will now join “racist” and “Nazi” in the panoply of useless denunciations, thereby ensuring no one will pay attention to actual terrorism, racism, and Fascism.
Kinda makes you wonder what’s going on inside the Vatican, doesn’t it?
I would think you'd be done with him BECAUSE you're Catholic....
The Pope says you are guilty of gossiping about him.;-)
Actually, in my opinion, it's time for the faithful to take the real Church away from the hierarchy. It seems to have become just another self-protecting bureaucracy.
“It’s a dangerous world we live in when the two biggest threats are climate change and gossip.”
This is code, a veiled threat, that if you out a priest or bishop you will suffer the wrath of The Church....
People who listen to this “pope” are imbeciles. Obviously an attempt at cover for all the pedophilia within the Catholic church.
“Don’t gossip about the pedo priests. If you do you’re terrorizing them”.
SMDH
Oh, and effu, Benny
I meant Frank!
Most likely. I grew up with JPII and now we get this schmuck? Oh well, they can’t all be gems.
CC
So, does the Pope think that all those who have come forward to state they were abused by priests were lying? Do their lives, and the damage done to their lives by those priests matter? Is the Pope saying that the Church never tried to suppress these claims, and protect the priests involved? He should be asked theses questions directly and succinctly, and asked to answer directly and succinctly without making general claims.
Until the Church hierarchy starts fixing itself it should not be asking for people’s money every Sunday. I will preferentially put that money to other use until that time that the Church is honest about all of this.
He thinks they are gossiping...and that's like murder.
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