Archbishop Steve King Lectures Pope On How To Catholic Good

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Archbishop Steve King Lectures Pope On How To Catholic Good


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Steve King Of Kings has a lot of problems with you Papal


Iowa congressmelon Steve King is a Catholic, and as a concerned member of the most strictly hierarchical religious institution on the planet, he’d like to take the opportunity to set Pope Francis straight about a few points of Catholic doctrine. Now, you might think that takes a lot of the chootzpah, for a mere Catholic layman to presume to lecture the man who — according to canon law — is the direct inheritor of the apostolic succession going back to Saint Peter. But sometimes rightwing American Catholics must speak harsh truths, even to the Bishop Of Rome, especially if the Pope doesn’t see why the GOP platform is more important than silly concerns about “economic justice” and “the planet.”

In an interview with Politico, King explains where the Pontiff has got Christ’s Word all wrong, and what he would say to Congress if he were Pope. Which, we might note, he is not.
I’m hopeful that Pope Francis will speak to these two issues: One is the church’s unfailing and steadfast opposition to abortion, the position that life begins at the moment of conception and it ends at natural death, and the dignity of every human person … I’m looking forward to that. Second component that is so strong among the Catholic Church is the position of marriage, and it being between a man and a woman.
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King also worried that Democrats — a bunch of hypocrites, the lot of them, since God is a Republican — have tried to act as if the Pope agrees with them somehow:
I’ve noticed that some Democrats, who seldom mention their faith or maybe never mention their faith will seize on to a phrase that Pope Francis may have said, and they want to attach themselves to that agenda. Political opportunists is what they are.

Shame on them! What people need to realize is that there are certain eternal values that the Pope speaks to, or would, if the Pope would just pay more attention to Steve King:
So, one of the reasons I emphasize the timeless values is that if Pope Francis would come here and address two topics and only two topics, it should be life and it should be marriage, and if he emphasized those two points and went back to the Vatican, he would leave a lasting impact on the entire United States of America and we would talk about those two issues within the parameters of the theology of the Roman Catholic Church, and I agree with both of those positions completely.
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