Notice how telling that opening sentence is. People like this can’t help themselves. The behavior is considered compulsive for this very reason.
“I am not terribly familiar with the particular case. I think it’s important to look at the overall work that a senator has done during, if I’m not mistaken, in 40 years of service in the United States Senate,” the Pope told reporters on Tuesday in response to a question from EWTN News.
(oh, so you are totally familiar with the case. Okay.)
“I understand the difficulty and the tensions. But I think as I myself have spoken in the past, it’s important to look at many issues that are related to the teachings of the Church.”
“Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life,” the pope explained. “Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”
“So they are very complex issues and I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them,” he continued, “but I would ask first and foremost that they would have respect for one another and that we search together both as human beings and in that case as American citizens and citizens of the state of Illinois, as well as Catholics, to say that we need to be close to all of these ethical issues. And to find the way forward as a Church. The Church teaching on each one of those issues is very clear.”
(“I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them…” oh really… exactly which Office do you claim to hold right now, and which Church do you claim to lead?)
Video, in plain English:
https://x.com/RaymondArroyo/status/1973129208751616030
Despicable. Utterly despicable.
I can see that Demon Leo has his sea legs now…
Little wonder that one must stretch the definition of a “pope” to accomodate all this wholesale cloth.
Are all those clansmen really taking marching orders from a guy who “doesn’t know”? A guy who they know is CLEARLY lying?
Before it’s all over, that SOB will have done 10x the damage that antipope Bergoglio did. Freemasonic antichurch is rapidly emerging, in your face and daring you to be disobeeedient.
Jesus in diversity is one .. this is all ambiguous claptrap I heard in college. They have to die off. No he is not smart. He is product of his 70s felt banker clericalism.
TFW wandering around the desert for 40 years waiting for the boomers to die off before we can enter the promised land.
If anyone matches the description of “a generation accursed” it is them. Even the good ones have had that curse inflicted upon them, may God recognize them for bearing up under it.
From my experience, it is more the birth control, high on nicotine and alcohol European generation before the Baby Boomers that was the problem. They couldn’t control their children and gave us Vatican II. Americans are always about 20 years behind.
The “look at the overall work” argument fails miserably in the light of logic and Scripture.
A person who during his Particular Judgment argues to “look at the overall work” of his life consisting of obedience to nine Commandments but grave sin against the remaining Commandment loses his soul to Hell (absent repentance).
His argument might make some sense on a mathematical basis, but Jesus’ standard isn’t mathematics; it’s sanctity. Jesus’ standard is “unless you repent you will all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3,5). Jesus’ standard is “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48).
Just fyi – It looks like the MAGA Catholics, while they still call Leo Pope, they also call his views here “total error” (Poso) and “obviously false” (Marshall).
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1973389268631380439
He speaks in tedious USCCB talking points. And as we all know, and as he just stated, national conferences of bishops have no theological basis. This is Democratic Party platform not Catholicism. When Vatican City destroys its walls maybe I’ll listen to this nonsense. There I said it.