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Maybe this will make people finally stop calling him "the cool pope?"
It's all lip service. He's no better than any of the others. He just talks a good game.
Why ? isn't that good, blessing people because they love each other ? did I misunderstand something ?
Maybe I’m the one misreading? It seemed to me like he was saying being gay is still wrong, just not as wrong as being a crooked businessman because it involves love.
Which makes him the cool pope, because after everything else he's still the pope. Calling him cool pope was never about him being okay with gay marriage and always about him being less anti-gay than for example the absolutely horrendous pope Benedict.
And him having fighting words with more anti-love bishops does frame him as "the most progressive among his group of regressives".
It's the fucking catholic church, don't expect them to be sane.
"Less of a bigot" makes him cool?
And has he changed his mind about reporting child abuse to the church rather than the police?
I mean couldn't we just call him 'marginally better Pope' or something?
I mean I call him, the "absolutist monarchical head of that organisation of delusional pedophiles", but that's not gonna change how this extremely wealthy organisation, that's basically the worlds most thorough PR-machine, uses the media to frame him in the public eye.
I'm not a religious person, but I think some views in this thread are coming off a bit narcissistic and ignorant. Religion has been a large part of humanity for literally forever, and people can't expect it to just go away completely. People turn to religion for comfort, often when they won't receive it in other ways. There will always be someone in the world who needs religion, and we all need to coexist. The important thing here is he is attempting to drive his members to be empathetic and improve moral compass. Just be grateful for that at least. People expect too much.
Religion has been a large part of humanity for literally forever, and people can't expect it to just go away
Don't crush my dreams like that.
You are the dream crusher
I don't like that popes exist. I'm pretty sure if we took proper care of all people, religion would poof away in short order. That said, if popes have to exist this guy is a wonderful Pope. He's not dismantling the place from the inside or anything but he is pushing them to be decent people. He's pushing them to make more sympathetic decisions. We just look at this more shocking public statements and go well f*** yeah why doesn't everybody say this, but for him in the position where he is he doesn't have to and it's kind of a big deal that he does.
He's still calling birth control "morally unacceptable", continuing the anti-condom and therefore pro-aids rhethoric of the church.
anti-condom and therefore pro-aids
That's like saying someone is anti ending humanity and therefore pro suffering
He's WRONG and should be PUNISHED!
-Christofacists who want their Religious Leaders to write the Laws.