Pope Francis, in a Saturday message delivered from the Vatican, took aim at conservative Catholics, warning that “rigidity” in living out the Christian faith was turning people away, and that the church must adapt to a post-Christian west.
Francis called for Vatican bureaucrats to embrace change during his annual Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who work in the Holy See.
Catholicism’s conservative wing has increasingly voiced opposition to Francis’ progressive-minded papacy. Their criticisms have accelerated in the past year, amid Vatican financial and sex abuse scandals.
Francis acknowledged in his address that Christianity no longer holds the influence in society that it once did. He cited the late Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, a leader of the progressive wing of the Catholic Church, who lamented before dying that the church found itself “200 years behind” because of its fear of change.
“Today we are no longer the only ones that produce culture, no longer the first nor the most listened to,” Francis told the prelates. “The faith in Europe and in much of the West is no longer an obvious presumption but is often denied, derided, marginalized and ridiculed.”
As a result, he urged the Catholic hierarchy to embrace the necessary pastoral reforms that will make the church attractive so that it can spread the faith.
In actual fact, the Catholic Church has become less popular as it has become more secular. The message of Jesus Christ is loud and clear: “I am the LORD, and I do not change.” Malachi 3:6 Ohhhh you didn’t know about this Bible verse?? Now you know!
What did you expect? That what is now considered sin, God will say ohhh ok since dumb humans want it so badly now I change and I no longer consider it sin? Did you expect God to accept homosexuality as normal? Its a sin, God does NOT change, it will ALWAYS remain a sin just as theft and murder will probably always remain ILLEGAL among human laws and it will never change.
There has been a steady collapse since Vatican II, when they made the decision to liberalize the Church, to back off of traditional gender roles, to back off of preaching the truth about hell, to cancel traditional mass, to forgive the evil Christ-denying Jews.
As they’ve continued to get softer, they’ve continued to lose believers, because it has become clear that they themselves don’t believe in anything they are saying. If they truly believed they were representing God, they couldn’t change their doctrine because “these are changing times.”
But there is hope, there is still one church, which did not change anything, it didn’t change its traditions, nor its teachings and that church is the orignal apostolic church created by the apostles of Jesus themselves, and that is the Eastern ORTHODOX church. If you feel the current Pope is too much for you to handle, you can simply just convert to Orthodoxy.
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The POPE is the MAN OF SIN. The Catholic Church is the WHORE OF BABYLON in Revelation 17.
Revelation 18:4 “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”
READ YOUR BIBLES, Catholics, you’re being led astray by wolves in sheep’s clothing!!!!
I AM GOIN TO SAY THIS AGAIN… I WILL NEVER STOP SAYING THIS… EVIL… IT IS IN THE EYESSSSSS… ARE THESE THE EYES OF A…GODLY MAN? A POPE?… NO THEY ARE NOT… AND … AS POPE IT IS HIS JOB TO TALK TO HIS FLOCK AND REASSURE THEM THAT GOD, AND HIS SON JESUS DO EXIST… AND IF HE THINKS THIS… HE NEEDS TO BE CASED INTO THE FIRELY PIT…WE NEED A NEW POPE… WHICH WOULD BE BAD…. NOSTRADAMUS SAID AFTER POPE JOHN PAUL ll BUT THAT IS A PROBLEM… BECAUSE…THERE WOULD BE 3 POPES BEFORE THE END…. HIS IS JUST HOW I FEEL… NOTHING WILL CHANGE MY MIND…
Pope Francis has played a significant role in my decision to convert from the Roman Catholic Church to the Russian Orthodox Church. Society is supposed to succumb to the church and not the church succumbing to society as desired by the Cultural Marxist- inspired Vatican.
As a Devout Roman Catholic I have had enough of this Pope. He seems to have lost his Mind with this kind of talk. I ask GOD in Heaven for RELIEF from the leadership of this, in my opinion, LESS than a Normal Pope.