Pope Francis has taken a stand against COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation, saying people have created a “distortion of reality based on fear†after meeting with a “fact-checking†network of Catholic journalists. “We can hardly fail to see that these days, in addition to the pandemic, an ‘infodemic’ is spreading: a distortion of reality based on…
Pope Francis commented on the protests that have erupted since George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis, saying that Catholics cannot tolerate racism and also “claim to defend the sacredness of every human life.” “My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion…
The Pope wasted little time lashing out at fake Christians whom he said would be better off being a non-believer, an atheist, than a “bad Christian.â€
Pope Francis said “It’s hypocrisy [and un-Christian] to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or toss out someone who is in need of help.”
“We Christians have much to apologize for; and those apologies need not be confined to just one area. Ask forgiveness, and not just say we’re sorry.”
This is a big deal and could signal the Pope’s thinking that perhaps it is time for women to become priests.
Pope Francis shot down reports that he met with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The pope described his interaction with Sanders as a brief greeting and common courtesy.
Sen. Bernie Sanders put the politics of the presidential campaign aside by sitting down with Pope Francis privately for five minutes. There were no cameras, no transcripts, and no press, as the Sanders/Francis meeting was clearly not a political endorsement.
“Senator Sanders was not invited by the pope, but by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences; the Pope will not meet with the candidate.”
Pope Francis, in Ross Douthat’s words, is “licensing innovation rather than merely tolerating it” and tolerating it is apparently bad enough
Pope Francis opened the door for Priests to offer divorced and remarried Catholics a path to take Holy Communion.
It is clear now that the Pope hated being ambushed into meeting with the American face of evangelical bigotry, Kim Davis
A new poll from the Robert Morris Polling Institute found that Pope Francis has 84.7% favorability rating with Donald Trump supporters. In other words, by attacking the Pope, Trump may be alienating people who would vote for him.
The Pope has inserted his holy self into American politics by questioning Trump’s Christian bona fides
A thin-skinned and grammatically confused Trump fired back at the Pope after the Pope questioned Trump’s Christianity. The Republican presidential front-runner’s reply assaulted the Pope for daring to question his Christianity, saying no leader should have the right to question another man’s faith.
Ryan wanted Americans to believe Republicans are actually doing something, when really it’s just more prime-time Republican theater
Both the school district shuttering and University suspension center around the GOP and evangelical movement’s current cause, Islamophobia
The Pope, in contrast to cowardly Republicans, chose to make a visit to a mosque in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic
“There will be…parties, bright trees, even Nativity scenes, all decked out, while the world continues to wage war. It’s all a charade.”
According to the Vatican, Pope Francis did not invite Kim Davis to meet him. There was no secret meeting, and the Pope had no idea who she was when he met her.
Ken Starr dished out some reality to a religious freed summit audience, cautioning them that choosing which laws to obey is problematic
Apparently, 5 days in jail did little more than embolden the newly crowned martyr to thumb her nose at Judge Bunning’s condition of release
The Pope’s bible, the rule book containing every single one of god’s utterances, plainly says to obey the government authorities, period
When Muslims died in a crane collapse, Klingenschmitt said “this is the consequence of their sin when they were really praying to Satan.”
Pope Francis spoke out against the fear of immigrants and bigotry that are the defining traits of the Republican position on immigration.
Almost immediately, Pope Francis and President Obama negated any Republican hopes of using the Pope’s visit to score political points by teaming up at the White House on a climate change message.
The Koch brothers are executing a well-planned assault on the Pope by portraying him as a Pagan and his followers as un-American
The problem for conservatives is not that the Pope made room for Paganism in the Church, but that he refuses to make room for capitalism
The GOP is unhappy the Pope is adhering to Jesus’ teachings – not those of Ayn Rand, Charles and David Koch, and every teabagger in America
Evangelicals are incensed by ideas of a socialist Jesus, but facts are facts – Jesus, like Bernie Sanders, championed the poor, not the rich
The Pope is put off that there are churches that would rather use buildings they own to make money than to house refugees
The Pope, once again, has moved in the opposite direction of the Republican mainstream, declaring that, as part of the Church’s jubilee year of mercy (8 December to 20 November 2016), women who have had abortions should be granted forgiveness.
Donald Trump wants to pit his fourth-grade level rhetoric against the Pope to convince him only capitalism can keep ISIL out of the Vatican
The mainstream media is finally reporting that the Koch’s legislative arm ALEC is moving into the open to prevent action on climate change
A group of liberal Senate Democrats turned the tables on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today by introducing a resolution supporting Pope Francis’ views on climate change and calling on the Senate to immediately act.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Pope Francis today for delivering a powerful message on climate change. Sanders also reminded Republicans that they invited the Pope to address them and urged climate change deniers to listen to what Francis is saying.
It is interesting that Santorum thinks there are more important things than a habitable planet – like creating jobs for dead people on a dead planet
Although a weapon like same-sex marriage able to jeopardize the existence of the world’s largest religion sounds terrifying, the Vatican went a step farther and claimed the recent democratic vote in Ireland legalizing same-sex marriage is not only a clear and present danger to Christianity, it was a “defeat for humanity.”
Recently, although Republicans love the Vatican’s support for opposition to equal rights for women and the LGBT community, there has been growing enmity over the Pope’s opposition to income inequality and anthropogenic climate change. The Pope finally went too far this past week when he failed to comply with Israel’s agenda that Palestine will never be a sovereign state.
What the so-called more “Christ-like” Pope has not done is rescind any of the Church’s archaic moral policies his predecessors kept in place and apparently Francis has no intention of changing them anytime soon; regardless of his Fox-created “friendlier pope” public relations image.
During a radio interview, Iowa GOP Congressman Steve King blasted liberal American Jews for being Democrats first, and Jewish second.
In a conscientious city like San Francisco, water conservation measures are taken very seriously by businesses and residents alike; except for the San Francisco Archdiocese led by embattled Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. The latest outrage, and it is a monumental outrage on humanitarian and water conservation terms, against the Archdiocese is the harshest criticism for installing a watering system to drench the homeless to prevent them from sleeping in doorways around the sanctuary at St. Mary’s Cathedral.
In fact, Francis is closely aligned with conservative Republican ideology; particularly in his position on addressing poverty and social issues such as homosexuality, same-sex marriage, birth control, and women’s rights.
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
The Catholic Pope has garnered nothing but serious opposition and pushback from America’s evangelical and Catholic Republican movement, and now the Koch brothers and their dirty energy cabal have joined what is developing into a dirty oil-evangelical war against Pope Francis.
Immigration reform is not just something the bishops want, says Cupich, but God himself. How successful will the GOP be saying ‘no’ to God?
Pope Francis has declared that evolution and the Big Bang are facts, no longer to be debated, saying of evolution: When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and…
Hagee says, “The Bible says that whenever we approach the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ,that there would be strange weather patterns.”
Republican evangelicals have gone mad with rage as Pope Francis and President Obama are delivering the same rejection of their selfish economic ideology.
After decades of declining incomes an overwhelming majority of Americans finally realize their government exists to favor the rich, and they are demanding change.
Time Magazine named the Pope their Person of the Year, with Ted Cruz as first runner up. Under their criteria the person of the year is “the person who most influenced the news, good or bad.” By this criteria, the Pontiff was the obvious choice.
After Rush Limbaugh attacked Pope Francis and called him a Marxist, the group Catholics in Alliance For The Common Good has started a petition denouncing Limbaugh.
It seems as if Pope Francis has no problems with atheists, but his other rhetoric suggests otherwise.