Pope Francis condemned the "very strong, organised, reactionary attitude" in the US church and said Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.

Pope Francis condemned the “very strong, organised, reactionary attitude” in the US church and said Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.

Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the US Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.

Francis’ comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions in the US Catholic Church, which has been split between progressives and conservatives who long found support in the doctrinaire papacies of St John Paul II and Benedict XVI, particularly on issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.

    • @Ensign_CrabEnglish
      14•1 year ago

      The Catholic Church literally supported Nazis back in the day.

      Pope Francis’ condemnation indicates that at least they learned from that mistake.

      • @jarfil
        -3•1 year ago

        Where “learning” from that mistake means:

        “Hey, check what most people have been thinking about X for the past 50 years… OK, we’ll support that”

    • Queen HawlSera
      2•1 year ago

      To be fair that’s because Hitler lied about being the most catholic ever and by the time they realized who he really was Italy was in too deep.

      Dude was actually going to ban Catholicism after awhile, had already made a banned religions list that was slowly working its way up.

      Unsurprisingly Judaism was the first on this list, more surprisingly Ievoha’s Witness was the second.