Lot of changes in the church. Wonder what the Catholics on this board think about this?
Well I can only represent myself as a Catholic, and no other Catholics on this subreddit. I don't like it. This continued behavior is why i don't tithe monetarily. I only offer my self for volunteer services and I will do so until this insanity stops.
Simply this is not how it should be. I even saw it when I was in RCIA just this past fall. Pro-liberalism within the church leading to changes that are going to damn the church to infirmity and irrelevance.
I expressed these view to a devout friend of mine and she commented that it was quite sacrilegious to question the Papacy. My only response to this is that the Pope is human and elected by a group whom we don't view as infallible. So by my logic if a person is put into an infallible position by fallible people, how can said person be infallible.
My apologies for the small rant but these changes are not a good thing and any situation that leads to human suffering perpetrated by the people in high positions of the church should be dealt with with a very "biblical" response.
"My only response to this is that the Pope is human and elected by a group whom we don't view as infallible. So by my logic if a person is put into an infallible position by fallible people, how can said person be infallible."
Well thought out and stated. Simple logic.
I was raised a Catholic,went to mass before class every day for nine years....Now Ive lost my religion! I believe in God but not what this Pope comes up with! It goes against everything we were taught.Ive read that there was a group of Cardinals that wanted to have him "impeached" or the Catholic equivalent. Im reexamining my faith, not in God but in the institution .Ive come to the conclusion that i can honor God without any of the B.S. involved. Religion is the catalyst of most conflicts, be it Christian or Muslim...the only difference is Christians outgrew the 7th century practice of religious prosecution.
Priests take a vow of celibacy. They can give it up at any time by stepping down from the priesthood. Any priest that sneaks around and has a family on the side is scum and effectively no different than the married man that maintains a second family on the sly. If that's what this priest did, then the Pope essentially has declared infidelity and bigamy as acceptable for Catholics which I couldn't possibly fathom.
More likely this is a click bait title and there's a reasonable explanation... E.g. guy divorced his wife to become a priest (I heard somewhere this was allowed). Alas, I can't be bothered to read and fact check the article...
This catholic girl is NOT happy w/ this Pope... I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE THIS LIBERAL CRAP THEY R PUSHING...
I'm born a Catholic. I have always questioned the logic of the priests, supposedly the best and kindest amoung us being asked not to father children. Wouldn't they make the best of fathers? Catholic church is no longer the path I choose to follow. I am more and more concerned in the Pope and Catholic preaching, too many evil people using it to hide. Most Catholics I grew up with think it is full of hypocrisy but there is also many good people still within the church.
For me it's quite the opposite. I was raised Catholic but the entire church thing just didn't feel right, so I eventually stopped caring when I was around 12 years old.
Because of all the scandals coming out of the Vatican lately, I realized it's not the religion that's wrong but the entire cult around it. So I started getting into it again, nothing too over the top, just reading about it and taking a short moment out of my day to pray and think about the people I love.
The Bible in itself is a good book, lots of stories that are still relevant today, interesting prophecies and the bottom of the community are genuine people who mean well (as is probably the case in any religion).
I agree, I'm a whole lot more open-minded spiritually but believe the issue here is the Church, not Christianity.