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.

  • @[email protected]
    2•10 months ago

    I just didn’t think it was any more or less corrupt as any other Church.

    It all seems like an unironic no-true-yorkshirrman comedy sketch.

    When I was in the Catholic Church they abused us 17 hours a day!

    That’s nothing! When I was in the Protestant Church they abused us 27 hours a day and killed us before bed time.

    Etc.

    • @[email protected]
      2•10 months ago

      I feel like Martin Luther was an idealist, an innocent “true believer” who got shocked when he saw the harsh reality of what was going on in Rome.

      Then he got his reform, established a new Church… and that’s where he went wrong, because sooner or later Churches gonna Church.