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.

  • Szymon@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    These christians will drop their Pope before they drop their politics

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      1 year ago

      They already have. Only Roman Catholics really care what the Pope has to say. There are far more Baptist, Methodist, Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Presbyterian in the US than Catholics.

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        1 year ago

        The Pope is the head of the Roman Catholic church, it’s always been the case that only Catholics really care about what he says.

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      That ship has already sailed - I was just with my conservative uncle this last weekend when he complained that the current pope is “woke”

      To these people, their political ideology is their religion