The longer your compound capital, the less you need luck and the more you need Shrewdness.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 8
Backward US Conservatives, got that Dope and Lurker Mom? It's official. From God, to the Pope, to you.
Pope says 'backward' U.S. conservatives have replaced faith with ideology
ROME (AP) ' Pope Francis has blasted the 'backwardness' of some conservatives in the U.S. 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 U.S. 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.
Many conservatives have blasted Francis' emphasis instead on social justice issues such as the environment and the poor, while also branding as heretical his opening to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive the sacraments.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Backward US Conservatives, got that Dope and Lurker Mom? It's official. From God, to the Pope, to you.
I'm not Catholic, so I don't take orders from Rome.
So feisty today.
No. of Recommendations: 1
He was speaking about Catholics, apparently. I know he is more liberal (if that term can be applied to him) than previous popes. I've read a few things that conservative bishops are trying to go around him about various issues.
But you lead-in implies he was speaking generally about all conservatives, not just Catholic ones.
(Not Catholic, don't really care...when the Catholic Church finally has to close it's doors, I will say "good riddance".)
No. of Recommendations: 1
I'm not Catholic, so I don't take orders from Rome.
So feisty today.
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And that's why JFK had to meet with religious leaders. He was Catholic and they had to be assured he wouldn't take his orders from Rome.
No. of Recommendations: 2
It goes from "Backward US"
to "Backward US Conservatives,"
to "backward US Conservatives in the Catholic Church"
Just having fun with Dope.
