Pope Francis Discusses Gay Catholics: 'Who Am I To Judge?'
The pope also used the occasion to expand on his June remarks about a "gay lobby" in the Vatican, clarifying that "he was against all lobbies, not just gay ones," the Italian news agency ANSA reports.
"Being gay is a tendency. The problem is the lobby," ANSA quotes the pontiff saying. "The lobby is unacceptable, the gay one, the political one, the Masonic one."
Says the guy who began papacy with opinions over falklands sovereignty.
BS in religious affairs? Check.
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ren wrote: Says the guy who began papacy with opinions over falklands sovereignty.
BS in religious affairs? Check.
BS is the most highly respected rite in 5000 years of religious tradition. Wouldn't want to break from that, would we ... ?
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Alexandre Orion wrote: And this is why Jedi observe, feel and use wisdom, focus and knowledge, in the measure of possible, to come to believe what we may believe from where and when we are in discovering the who and what ... Science is taking care of finding out how.
We do not say what to believe, just "to believe ..."
The Force (given that is the name we will call it) reveals Itself -- we don't need to preach it.
And when the time is right 'for an individual' to seek 'the answer' (or is it the question?), if it ever is, then they will seek their own answers... Whatever they may be..

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Yes, he did follow this up by explaining that he believes that women have a very important place in the Church (more important than Bishops and Priests) and that he just hasn't worked it out yet - but it doesn't wash with me.
So in one interview he said that he has no right to judge gays...and then immediately demonstrates that he considers himself a judge over [the place of] women in the Catholic Church.
http://youtu.be/litnTBtYMGY
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I noticed it too...
And while it bugged me, I didnt want it to overshadow the small bit of ground gained..lol...
Women in the clregy will be next...

It may just take another 500 years, lol...
As I said in my last post... If they dont change fast enough, they will die as a belief...
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