In an extraordinary pushback against Pope Francis, some Catholic bishops in Africa, Poland and elsewhere say they will not implement the new Vatican policy allowing blessings for same-sex couples.
Others downplayed the policy approved this week by Francis as merely reaffirming the Vatican’s long-standing teaching about marriage being only a union between a man and a woman.
The reactions show how polarizing the issue remains and how Francis’ decade-long effort to make the church a more welcoming place for the LGBTQ+ community continues to spark resistance among traditionalist and conservative Catholic leaders.
Some of the strongest responses came from bishops in Africa, home to 265 million Catholics, or nearly a quarter of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics. Many of those Catholics live and their churches operate in societies where homosexuality is condemned and outlawed.
Isn’t, according to Catholics beliefs, the pope infallible? Is that not a core part of the religion that separates it from Protestants?
Are we about to witness a splitting of the Catholic church?
So papal infallibility only applies when they’re speaking ex cathedra (from the throne). The only time that’s happened was in 1950. It’s more that daughter churches need to maintain a “catholic” (universal) church within established rites.
Isn’t there like twenty different sects of Catholicism already?
Catholicism is itself a sect of the larger religion of Christianity. But yes, apparently there is a new Christian derived sect every second bigger town.
Yeah, if the church wants to survive it’ll have to adapt, but there are too many people who think the church never changes and that their angry childhood nun was the voice of god.
Let the ex-Communications begin.
Yeah. I was pretty sure the dude in the big hat that was they only direct link to God was infallible.
Yes and no.
They believe that the pope can be infallible, but only sometimes. And sometimes means twice. As in, it has only been used two times.
There is no set list of ex cathedra teachings, but that’s because there are only two, and both are about Mary: her Immaculate Conception (declared by Pope Pius IX in 1854 and grandfathered in after the First Vatican Council’s declaration of papal infallibility in 1870) and her bodily Assumption into heaven (declared by Pope Pius XII in 1950).
Based on precedent, your pope name seems like it needs to be “pius” to be eligible for infallibleness.
An electric hybrid would be a great for a pope. Fuel efficiency in religion is important - even Jesus left with his disciples in one Accord.
Last I heard. But hey, I am no Theologian. (IANT). LoL
Oh I am looking forward to a new era of anti-Popes.
If you get a Pope and an Anti-Pope to have sex, …
They annihilate each other in an incredible burst of energy.
Just say the Vatican won’t sweep their next homesexual pedo episode under the table, that’ll bring them in line.
Ah the Kevin Spacey tactic
So… further proof of the cherry-picking of Christianity.
Why don’t they go and fuck themselves?.. Oh wait.
If any of you bothered to read the actual document, it says no blessing homosexual unions or anything that resembles them. The media is reporting everything way out of context and you are along for the ride.
Schism and Split! Let’s have multiple factions of Catholicism! Even multiple popes!
If we’re going to be a Nation governed by the Bible doesn’t that mean we have to listen to the Pope? Or do we pick and choose which parts of our religion we follow and kill the people who follow the Pope who sings the Word of God?
