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.
This has to be comedy at this point.
So we have one representative trying to straighten the one group of followers, who’ve established a negative reputation as being the entry level for child sex abusers.
And we have another group of representatives who’ve replaced THAT group by worshiping a conman.
You can’t make this up.
And that conman was (at the very least) a friend of a very famous child sex abuser.