Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.
And who wants to predict the flood of catholics saying the pope isn’t catholic because of this statement?
They already did that when he told people to be nice to trans people. He didn’t tell them to embrace them into their lives, just treat them nice and they lost their shit about it.
To be fair, he said be nice. Modern christianity demands brutal suppression of anyone you don’t like.
The new document repeats that rationale and elaborates on it, reaffirming that marriage is a lifelong sacrament between a man and a woman. And it stresses that blessings should not be conferred at the same time as a civil union, using set rituals or even with the clothing and gestures that belong in a wedding.
So no real moral progress from the Catholic Church; just more PR to get people back in the pews.
If Catholic God was real, he should be seeking out our love and mercy.
moral progress
What’s that?
I have no interest in semantic rabbit trails.
If you are unable to infer my meaning, then I’m sorry about that.
It’s OK, don’t worry, I already downvoted.
Oh no! A downvote? How will I ever recover from this?!
IKR.
He says they “can” but knows they won’t or quietly tells them not to. This pope is all PR and bullshit he knows they won’t follow through on. The Pope can pretend that Catholics are now tolerant of gay people, but go to a Catholic Church throughout most of the planet, particularly the third world and see how tolerant they are and how much they follow the Pope. They are tolerant of pedophiles in their clergy though, since they don’t seem to want to fix that issue
I knew a lot of Catholics that didn’t have a problem with gay people.
God’s love is for everyone, types.
