These days I almost pity the religious right in the US. They can't even rely on the Pope any more.
Previous popes could be depended on to issue solemn edicts against abortion, contraception, and homosexuality. Pope Francis says the Church should "stop being obsessed" with those issues.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/11/01/242386503/in-a-church-built-on-tradition-the-pope-likes-spontenaity
Fighting against a godless society, the right enjoyed a series of Popes who saw the world the same way they did: atheists and Communists vs. the Kingdom of God, a world order quite comfortable with capitalism.
Pope Francis not only shrugs off the fight against gays with "Who am I to judge?" He met in September with a well-known atheist journalist and downplayed the idea of saving the world through gaining converts.
Sylvia Poggiolio, correspondent from Rome for National Public Radio, gave a hilarious report on the radio today about Vatican Pope-handlers scrambling to keep up with Francis:
The journalist met the pope in the small hotel on Vatican grounds that Francis has chosen as his modest residence, forsaking the palatial papal apartment. And Francis made some sensational statements, including: "Proselytism is solemn nonsense" and "The world's most serious afflictions today are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old."
A report on the interview with Eugenio Scalfari is available from Scott Neuman on an NPR blog "The Two-Way":
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/01/228200595/francis-says-the-court-is-the-leprosy-of-the-papacy
In the conversation with Scalfari, Pope Francis revealed how much a professor, both Communist and female, had influenced him in his days as a university student:
In a radio address in May, the pope shocked many by calling atheists "precious allies" and advising them to "do good: we will meet one another there."
Footnotes: Matthew 25 and Jesus' words to the thief on the cross.
Francis is behaving more and more like Jesus, and that of course is scandalous.
Previous popes could be depended on to issue solemn edicts against abortion, contraception, and homosexuality. Pope Francis says the Church should "stop being obsessed" with those issues.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/11/01/242386503/in-a-church-built-on-tradition-the-pope-likes-spontenaity
Fighting against a godless society, the right enjoyed a series of Popes who saw the world the same way they did: atheists and Communists vs. the Kingdom of God, a world order quite comfortable with capitalism.
Pope Francis not only shrugs off the fight against gays with "Who am I to judge?" He met in September with a well-known atheist journalist and downplayed the idea of saving the world through gaining converts.
Sylvia Poggiolio, correspondent from Rome for National Public Radio, gave a hilarious report on the radio today about Vatican Pope-handlers scrambling to keep up with Francis:
The journalist met the pope in the small hotel on Vatican grounds that Francis has chosen as his modest residence, forsaking the palatial papal apartment. And Francis made some sensational statements, including: "Proselytism is solemn nonsense" and "The world's most serious afflictions today are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old."
A report on the interview with Eugenio Scalfari is available from Scott Neuman on an NPR blog "The Two-Way":
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/01/228200595/francis-says-the-court-is-the-leprosy-of-the-papacy
In the conversation with Scalfari, Pope Francis revealed how much a professor, both Communist and female, had influenced him in his days as a university student:
He said that in his youth, he was influenced by a university professor "who was a fervent communist."
"She often read Communist Party texts to me and gave them to me to read. So I also got to know that very materialistic conception," he said. The woman, he said, "was later arrested, tortured and killed by the dictatorship then ruling in Argentina."
This woman is a martyr, and Francis expects to see her in heaven. Consider his comments last May, also reported in the same NPR blog:In a radio address in May, the pope shocked many by calling atheists "precious allies" and advising them to "do good: we will meet one another there."
Footnotes: Matthew 25 and Jesus' words to the thief on the cross.
Francis is behaving more and more like Jesus, and that of course is scandalous.
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