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.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    210 months ago

    To be fair that’s because Hitler lied about being the most catholic ever and by the time they realized who he really was Italy was in too deep.

    Dude was actually going to ban Catholicism after awhile, had already made a banned religions list that was slowly working its way up.

    Unsurprisingly Judaism was the first on this list, more surprisingly Ievoha’s Witness was the second.