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.

  • LillyPip
    4233·
    10 months ago

    Has he met the Catholic Church?

    Inquisitions? Witch burning? Who does he think did extremism biggest and best?

    Sure, now they mostly just coverup for paedophiles and rampant baby murder at orphanages, but they were the OG extremists, let’s not kid ourselves.

      • QHC@lemmy.world
        20·
        10 months ago

        My conservative Catholic family thinks the current Pope is a plant by the liberals, so he must be doing something right in my book.

      • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
        210·
        10 months ago

        They changed nothing. It was all sweet-talk and no changes. There is still no prosecution for child molesters, still no action for all atrocities. He’s just PR man they put in place to stop the dumpster fire previous one was.

        • SCB@lemmy.world
          12·
          10 months ago

          Lmao.

          Seriously imagine thinking the Catholic Church elected a PR man as pope.

          That’s fucking adorable. Like just look at the comment right below mine

          • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
            11·
            10 months ago

            Okay, let’s play a different game then. What has changed with catholic church since he was elected. Mind you, not what he said will change, but actually changed?

    • Soulg@lemmy.world
      141·
      10 months ago

      The pope: “maintaining rigid and unchanging ideology is bad and room for change and growth must be allowed”

      You: “um excuse me but hundreds of years ago the church killed people”

      The church sucks ass but this is the absolute worst take regarding this specific post.

      • LillyPip
        1·
        10 months ago

        Not hundreds of years ago. Maybe my sarcasm didn’t come across through text, but their atrocities are still being uncovered from only a couple of decades ago, and they’re still committing atrocities on a slightly smaller scale today (though I’m sure their victims – still alive today – would argue they’re not lesser).

        The Catholic Church doesn’t have a leg to stand on here, and it’s gross that they’re pretending they do.

        e: didn’t close my brackets

    • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
      87·
      10 months ago

      They were also a huge player in the residential “schools” of North America, which was one of the major ways the Indigenous genocide was conducted.