In a recent interview with an Italian magazine, Pope Francis provided more comments on “Fiducia Supplicans,” highlighting the hypocrisy behind those shocked that a priest would bless a gay couple but have no problem with him blessing a crooked businessman.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – People who act shocked that a priest would bless a gay couple but have no problem with him blessing a crooked businessman are hypocrites, Pope Francis said.

“The most serious sins are those that are disguised with a more ‘angelic’ appearance. No one is scandalized if I give a blessing to an entrepreneur who perhaps exploits people, which is a very serious sin. Whereas they are scandalized if I give it to a homosexual – this is hypocrisy,” he told the Italian magazine Credere.

The interview was scheduled for publication Feb. 8, but Vatican News reported on some of its content the day before when the magazine issued a press release about the interview.

  • JojoEnglish
    2•9 months ago

    Do you think catholics would go against what the pope has told them God has commanded?

    Wouldn’t be the first time. In fact, it happens at a small scale fairly often, and it’s generally perceived as a tragedy when it does.

    If this were a politician trying to sway congress that’s one thing, but is the vatican not functionally a dictatorship, with the pope at the top?

    It’s not really. It’s an elected office, and certainly a political one. If there’s not a way to depose him once elected, it doesn’t make it not political. As for his supposed despotic power, he could theoretically do basically anything, but he doesn’t because the reality is that he doesn’t have the political will to do it.

    • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙English
      1•9 months ago

      tragedy

      I don’t think catholics know what that word means. Not in this context they sure don’t.

      This sounds like some “I don’t want to tell my kids about gay marriage because it’s going to make me mildly uncomfortable so I might as well demonize it”.

      Yeah, I guess I have a lot more faith in the pope than you do. I know he can do it, but I also know he doesn’t care enough to do it. It’s just showing face. It’s trying to market a dying religion.