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.

  • Alien Nathan Edward
    8•1 year ago

    Doctrinally god can remain infallible while altering his message to be what humans of a given time and place are ready to hear and act upon. Are your parents hypocrites for letting you drive a car at 16 but not at 4?

    • Queen HawlSera
      5•1 year ago

      I knew a guy who thought like this, (Rest in peace, Robotech_Master, I miss you everyday)

      He was a Christian who had a rather unorthodox way of interpreting the bible.

      His take was that God is real, souls are real, and there is indeed a life after this one.

      However he didn’t believe in anything supernatural.

      He believed God was simply a being beyond human comprehension who didn’t have a good way of explaining the universe to a simple primitive species like man. So he dumbed it down with supersitions and myths in order to keep man heading in the right direction.

      For example

      God couldn’t get an ancient people to understand shellfish kills you if you cook it wrong, so he just made up a rule that said “You will be killed by my divine wraith if you eat this! So you better not!”

      And then when Jesus came along and humans knew how to cook shellfish properly he dropped a line about how “the old law doesn’t apply anymore”

      He believes Heaven and Hell, the Resurrection of Christ, and Souls were all legit… and have a rational explanation, man is just too inexperienced to understand the specifics beyond some colorful scripture and a few divinely inspired paintings right now.

      For his sake I hope he was right, coming up on the anniversary of his tragic hit and run…

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      Doctrinally…

      Yes, that’s my point with “diving God’s will”.

      I’m not sure what you mean by the car-hypocrite bit though.