Unlike some of those Christian fanatics...who are DEvolving!

Catholics no longer have to eat fish on Friday.
No more purgatory.
No more Spanish Inquisitions.
Mass in English (Loved the old Latin Mass..at least they taught Latin in school)

I am sure there are many smaller changes, but have not been to church in years!

Maybe in another hundred years or so they'll accept women as equals and and not consider LGBT 'disordered'.

It's ok to admit that you simply don't care.

Thank god I did not live during the witch hunts in MA, I'd been burned at the stake for sure..but of course it WAS hell (actually) for those women who lived back then.

right now, they are actively trying to change laws that offer equality and choice, or introduce laws that restrict equality and choice. THAT is oppression.

Willful ignorance isn't a strong position to argue from.

the church to welcome them AND divorced and remarried Catholics...THAT IS PROGRESS

He said that homosexuals need help for their 'condition.'

He said that everyone needs to accept their birth gender.

He also said that nothing has changed regarding divorced and remarried Catholics.

Not sure how you got his message 100% wrong, but then again, that's the magic of the PR Pope.

See things evolve just as the RC church has...

IF Hillary had gone to the Vatican rather than Bernie you would be giving praises to Pope Francis!

Wow, I learned something new today.

(And actually, I support Bernie.)

Quite the strikeout on your post, it appears.

about communion, they could get divorced and just live in 'sin'.

Hell, I knew a former Priest married to a former Nun...I don't think their first and last thought was "gee, I can't have communion any more" !

And when you don't know a DUer, you might start by looking at their profile. For trotsky, you find his favorite group over the last 90 days has been GD - so it doesn't look like he's fixated on the Democratic primary. His favorite group is Religion (note - neither the Bernie Sanders nor Hillary Clinton group), so you'd be far better off thinking his opinions look at how religion affects the world, and then maybe bases a choice between candidates on that, than the other way round.

What reason do you have for thinking trotsky is a Hillary supporter?

Hell, there are people who live to 100 and older.

Among them are kids and young adults who commit suicide because their church tells them who they are is a sin, that there is something "intrinsically disordered" with them.

The pope could change that in an instant if he wanted to. Why doesn't he?

the better off the entire society will become...and 'Christianity' will have to follow or be left behind, like the worshipers of Zeus!

Why doesn't he?

I didn't have to wait for society as a whole. I decided what the right thing to do was, and I did it. The Pope can do that too. It's called leading.

Nobody likes to talk about it though. If you do eat meat on Friday, you are supposed to give up something else. We never had meat on Friday at the seminary.

One might say that their attitude toward gays and their "don't use condoms even though it would help curb AIDS" might be a form of Inquisition.

How about their more bigoted stances: gays? women? reproductive rights? Those old chestnuts are still in practice.

Father Berrigan's day...

Hell, when I was a youngun, folks were jailed if an unmarried man and an unmarried woman were caught having sex.

Of course gay sex was considered much worse and jail time was longer.

See, we evolve, some for the better and some for the worse.

Such a monolithic church.