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OK, this is getting damn absurd and ridiculous!!! Right back to the middle ages!!! FFS!!! This is 2018.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-devil/pope-blames-devil-for-church-divisions-scandals-seeks-angels-help-idUSKCN1MI10M
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The devil is alive and well and working overtime to undermine the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis says.
In fact, the pope is so convinced that Satan is to blame for the sexual abuse crisis and deep divisions racking the Church that he has asked Catholics around the world to recite a special prayer every day in October to try to beat him back.
Since he was elected in 2013, Francis has made clear that he believes the devil to be real. In a document in April on holiness in the modern world, Francis mentioned the devil more than a dozen times.
We should not think of the devil as a myth, a representation, a symbol, a figure of speech or an idea. This mistake would lead us to let down our guard, to grow careless and end up more vulnerable, he wrote in the document.
SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)All you have to do is change Canon Law, which only you can do, so that priests who have pedophilia accusations against them are reported to the police instead of the current secret internal church review and reassignment, per the current Canon Law. As long as you continue handling pedophilia accusations like you are, you will continue to have rampant child rape.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2018/08/28/commentary-why-its-so/
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)is an interesting tack.
SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)You are supposed to confess and atone for your sins, not blame them on someone else.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)(The Church must be) saved from the attacks of the malign one, the great accuser and at the same time be made ever more aware of its guilt, its mistakes, and abuses committed in the present and the past,
Nowhere does he deny responsibility on behalf of the church here. He just believes the devil is at war with the church.
That is standard Christian teaching. Maybe you dont believe in a devil. I dont either. But he does. And your critique is meaningless in the face of that belief.
SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)rurallib
(62,433 posts)that seem to cause us to do everything?
NOT MY FAULT!
PJMcK
(22,040 posts)That's all I've got since this is silliness.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)eom
FakeNoose
(32,706 posts)..."the devil is in their dicks."
procon
(15,805 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)At least he's not blaming on the Gays and women and everyone else.
It could be much worse. He's just blaming it on the traditional non-existent devil the same way he looks for guidance from his non-existent God.
LiberalFighter
(51,020 posts)from saying the devil made me do it?
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)The Pope is talking like a frightened child, frightened by the monsters under the bed.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)lapucelle
(18,303 posts)The article goes on to speculate that the term "the great accuser" was deliberately chosen as a shot across the bow of one of Francis's conservative critics:
Details of Viganò's claims can be found here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/world/europe/pope-ireland-sexual-abuse-letter-vigano.html
Earlier this year, Francis caused consternation among the doctrinaire when it was reported that he had speculated to journalist friend in a private conversation that there is no hell.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43596919
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Permanut
(5,621 posts)They love to trot out Satan (the Enemy, Lucifer) to account for such things as, oh, Democrats, the global warming hoax, the attacks on our wonderful dear leader, the deep state and the shadow government. Barbara Carmack, host of a daily radio show out of Denver, rants daily about it, and many others as well.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Initech
(100,097 posts)Shit, he literally has a rocket called "Satan 2". So I guess you could say Francis is right in that regard!
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Initech
(100,097 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)exboyfil
(17,865 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)In Catholicism? Religious organizations are not going to evolve out of magical thinking. All religions partake in it.
meow2u3
(24,767 posts)Conservatism in the name of God is straight out of Hell and from the Devil. After all, Old Scratch, the archbully from hell, loves to divide people, loves to tempt people in power to use it to abuse the weakest among us, and loves to pass off conservative ideology as authentic Christianity.
Freethinker65
(10,033 posts)Thoughts and prayers are not a cure, but they are a great way to deny responsibility.
Add the current pope to the likes of Jimmy Swaggart. Sad.