Monday, October 21, 2013

Eric Dolan — Pope Francis describes ‘ideological Christians’ as a ‘serious illness’ within the Church (via Raw Story )

Pope Francis describes ‘ideological Christians’ as a ‘serious illness’ within the Church (via Raw Story )
Speaking at daily Mass last Thursday, Pope Francis warned Christians against turning their faith into a rigid ideology. “The faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology,” he said, according to Radio Vatican. “And ideology…


4 comments:

Matt Franko said...

I would point out to the Pope that the apostle Paul never used the word "disciple" (mathetai) in any of his letters...

The Pope's 'charity state liberalism' is a reasoned ideology too.

rsp,

Unknown said...

The RCC should never have ended it's opposition to usury since the common stock company is an ethical form of private money creation.

googleheim said...

Charity state liberalism is a term made by the rigid ones dealing in the currencies of fanaticism and coin fetishes - such as minting a magical coin to smokescreen all the problems and reduce the beautitudes to background noise by over quoting old testament pennies

Matt Franko said...

Here is another good one from Francis:

"Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness."

'Tenderness'?: "Be following Me, and leave the dead to entomb their own dead."

'Love'?: "Leave them! Blind guides are they of the blind!"

'Meekness'?: "Serpents! Progeny of vipers!"

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