re: Why do people care about the Popes political views

I cared about the prior Pope's political views. He was a communist. The new Pope is an improvement.

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But I do have a problem when the pope directly misstates the Bible by saying God never is on a side of someone raising weapons…

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God evidently was against the Nazis. God was also against us in Vietnam.

God definitely does not allow these middle eastern wanna be dictators to succeed much.

Things are so fricking simple and easy to understand yet everyone tries to interpret what God is or does and mostly gets it wrong.

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They don’t. He’s a pompous a’hole. Literally

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Pompous Pilate

I’m Catholic and don’t give a shite what any “Pope” says or does, the church is on life support and “chose” an American in the hopes money would come pouring in. I cut all donations to the Catholic Church but give to my church and make sure it stays within my parish only.

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Why do people care about the Popes political views

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are you catholic? i am i've lived through 7 popes now and the first 5 i couldn't tell you what their political views where. the most destructive pope in my life time was pope paul and it aint even close. the church i was baptized into in 1961 didn't resemble the church i was confirmed into in 1970.

that matters to me. if the last two popes want to beclown themselves weighing into american politics, have at it that puts them up there with pope fonzi and pope john paul, george and ringo. we lost 90,000 american nuns after vatican two and i had to suffer through guitar masses in the 70's never again.

there's your answer child now go and sin no more.

Pray for your answer.

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Every non-Catholic who thinks we Roman Catholics are bound by every word leaving the Pope’s mouth needs to Google “ex cathedra.”

(Many Catholics also need to look it up.)

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They can see the teaching on ex cathedra statements in section 891 of the Catholic Catechism.

They can also see in the next section that even when the Pope is not speaking infallibly, that his ordinary teachings on faith and morals must be adhered to with “religious assent”.

I really think Catholics need to consider their history. Popes in the medieval ages would depose kings and emperors and start holy wars and inquisitions with fallible declarations, and now Catholics consider him at best someone who might have something good to say at times, and at worst, a clown and even a blight on the church.

Those low views of the Pope are not historical. His office as successor of St. Peter demands respect and submission, especially as he speaks on faith and morals.

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Have a look at his bastardized the Catholic Church is. Tranny churches. Gay churches. Next thing we know they’ll be advocating post birth abortions.

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The Tranny and Gay churches are nowhere to be found on the Catholic side of the aisle. You are thinking of the other guys.

You should check your facts.

But to get to the topic at hand, I don't know why people around here talk about the Pope so much. It's pretty much the most common topic here on Political Talk. Many people around here seem to love to take an opportunity to bash the Pope and to bash the Catholics, even if they have to tell a Lie to do so.

Because the Pope is not kissing the OPOS ring

David Axelrod met with Pope on April 9th, few days later he is criticizing Trump.

As a Catholic, I do not care about the Pope's political views.