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To: BlatherNaut
"Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions, "said the Pontiff. "We Catholics have some -- and not some, many -- who believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because it is my Church."

Pope Francis criticises 'fundamentalist' Catholics

And from the same article linked immediately above:

Pope Francis responded that an ongoing question for Catholic moral theology is whether condoms in that case are an instrument to prevent death or a contraceptive -- in which case they would violate church teaching on openness to life.

But, he said, the question is too narrow. People are dying because of a lack of clean water and adequate food. Once the world takes serious steps to solve those problems, then it would be "legitimate to ask whether it is licit" to use condoms to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.

8 posted on 02/24/2016 4:30:07 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide
"We Catholics have some -- and not some, many -- who believe they possess the absolute truth

His comment reveals a clear contempt for Church teachings. If the Bishop of Rome does not believe that absolute truth is embodied in the Deposit of Faith entrusted to the Church by Jesus Christ, then he is occupying Peter's chair under false pretenses, and ought to resign immediately.

9 posted on 02/24/2016 5:10:36 PM PST by BlatherNaut
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