Notice that everyone who is defending the Pope hates Catholics and would prefer that they all died in a fire.
There is nothing wrong with big houses and big cars. There is something very wrong with four naked priests in a bed. When you say "big houses" it is like Pope Francis saying "Global Warming" - a spurious claim to be holier than thou. It is phariseeism.
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The solution for many American traditionalists is manly priests, expulsion of all traces of homosexuality among priests and laity, Latin Mass, and isolation from the modern world, with or without the Pope.
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I feel the reforms have to be accomplished with and through the Pope, in a way that affects and includes the global church in all the complexity of its relationship with modern culture.
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Modern "culture" is a competing religion, with its own standards of holiness. Adopting alien children and giving them sex changes is our equivalent of sacrificing children to Moloch, a demonstration of superior holiness that will advance one's career.
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Reform must begin with rejecting the new Phariseeism, with a claim of moral authority for the ancient Church, not the latest hip fashions.
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The things you are talking about are bad, but the Pope is not doing those things. You seem to think that if a person advocates something (like environmentalism or sympathy for refugees) that liberals also tend to advocate, that makes them a liberal. It doesn’t.
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The pople engages in a public display of Progressive virtue, when accused of Christian sin. This is phariseeism and a repudiation of Christian virtues. By responding "Global Warming" to "Homosexuality" the Pope burns incense to Caesar.
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Even back when priests could marry! The celibacy vow was intented to prevent corruption. But the image of the perverted priest has been attached to the Church for centuries. What I am saying is that we have to look at the big picture to solve the problem.
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The image of the perverted priest has been attached to the church since it introduced mandatory celibacy. Protestant scandals tend to be clerics sleeping with loose women, not perversion.
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Homosexuality among priests is certainly a terrible thing, but we can’t just focus on homosexuality as if all we need to do is find more good heterosexual priests. Moral corruption in the priesthood has been a recurring problem in the Church since its beginnings.
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Indeed, Christ Himself chose Judas. This is not to say that we ought not root out Judases in our midst, but that we can’t pretend this is a new thing.
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I actually share your annoyance regarding Pope Francis pushing the global warming issue, but I accept that maybe it’s something I should give more credence to. Environmentalism is not just for liberals. And the American style of capitalism breeds perversion.
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