JESUIT ANTI-POPE FRANCIS I IS DESTROYING CATHOLIC CHURCH & WILL SUPPORT CIVIL UNIONS
The Unhived Mind
March 5th, 2014
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/05/pope-francis-church-could-support-civil-unions/
Pope Francis: Church could support civil unions
By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
(CNN) – Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage on Wednesday, but suggested in a newspaper interview that it could support some types of civil unions.
The Pope reiterated the church’s longstanding teaching that “marriage is between a man and a woman.” However, he said, “We have to look at different cases and evaluate them in their variety.”
States, for instance, justify civil unions as a way to provide economic security to cohabitating couples, the Pope said in a wide-ranging interview published Wednesday in Corriere della Sera, an Italian daily. State-sanctioned unions are thus driven by the need to ensure rights like access to health care, Francis added.
A number of Catholic bishops have supported civil unions for same-sex couples, including Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 2010, according to reports in National Catholic Reporter and The New York Times.
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But Wednesday’s comments are “the first time a Pope has indicated even tentative acceptance of civil unions,” according to Catholic News Service.
Later on Wednesday, a Vatican spokesman sought to clarify the Pope’s remarks.
“The Pope did not choose to enter into debates about the delicate matter of gay civil unions,” said the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a consultant to the Vatican press office.
“In his response to the interviewer, he emphasized the natural characteristic of marriage between one man and one woman, and on the other hand, he also spoke about the obligation of the state to fulfill its responsibilities towards its citizens.”
“We should not try to read more into the Pope’s words than what has been stated in very general terms,” Rosica added.
Pope Francis, who marks his first year in office on March 13, has sought to set a more tolerant tone for his 1 billion-member church and suggested that a broad range of topics are at least open for discussion.
In January, the Pope recalled a little girl in Buenos Aires who told her teacher that she was sad because “my mother’s girlfriend doesn’t like me.”
“The situation in which we live now provides us with new challenges which sometimes are difficult for us to understand,” the Pope told leaders of religious orders, adding that the church “must be careful not to administer a vaccine against faith to them.”
The Vatican later denied that those comments signaled an opening toward same-sex unions.
Last June, Francis famously refused to judge gay priests in comments that ricocheted around the world. He has also said that the church should not “interfere” in the spiritual lives of gays and lesbians.
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Support of same-sex unions of any type is fiercely contested by many Catholic church leaders.
In Wednesday’s interview, Francis also addressed several other controversial issues, including the Catholic Church’s ban on contraception, the role of women and the devastating clergy sexual abuse scandal.
On contraception, the Pope praised Pope Paul VI for having the “courage” to “go against the majority” when restating the ban in 1968. But, Francis said, the church must also be “merciful” and “attentive to concrete situations.”
Contraception and church’s ban on divorced Catholics receiving holy communion, will likely be addressed at major meetings of Catholic bishops in Rome in 2014 and 2015.
“We must give a response. But to do so, we must reflect much in depth,” the Pope said Wednesday.
On the role of women in the church, an issue of particular concern to Catholics in the United States, the Pope hinted that changes could be in the works.
“Women must be present in all of the places where decisions are taken,” Francis said in the newspaper interview, but the church must consider more than “functional” roles for women. To that end, Catholic leaders are engaged in “deep reflection” on women’s role in the church, he said.
On the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy, a scandal that has rocked the church in the United States, the Pope said the abuse has left “very deep wounds” on victims.
In response, the church has done more than other institutions to be open and transparent about sexual abuse by its employees, Francis said. “But the Church is the only one to be attacked.”
A United Nations panel criticized Catholic leaders last month in a hard-hitting report on clergy sexual abuse.
The report said the Vatican “has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, has not taken the necessary measures to address cases of child sexual abuse and to protect children, and has adopted policies and practices which have led to the continuation of the abuse by and the impunity of the perpetrators.”
The Vatican said it would study the U.N. report.
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On Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who has surprised church-watchers with public appearances after saying he would live a cloistered life in retirement, Francis said he considers his predecessor a “wise grandfather.”
“The Pope Emeritus is not a statue in a museum,” Pope Francis said. Rather, the two men have decided that Benedict should participate in the church’s public life rather than live a shuttered life.
“I thought about grandparents who with their wisdom, their advice, strengthen families and don’t deserve to end up in an old folks home,” Francis said.
Finally, he may sometimes wear a cape, but don’t call Pope Francis a Superman, the popular pontiff said.
“To paint the Pope as a sort of Superman, a kind of star, seems offensive to me,” Francis told Corriere della Sera. “The Pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps soundly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.”
Earlier this year, graffiti depicting a muscle-bound and flying Francis appeared on walls near Vatican City, but the Pope said Wednesday that he doesn’t like the “mythology” surrounding his papacy, which marks its first anniversary on March 13.
For instance, Francis debunked the idea that he sneaks out of the Vatican at night to feed the homeless.
“It never occurred to me,” he said.
theunhivedmind says:
How many times do I have to keep informing people about the real purpose of the Jesuit Order? The Jesuit Order are the Knights Templar continuum of the Kingdom of Aragon and they were bought together as the Jesuit Order by the Venetians who wanted to destroy their enemy the Catholic Church. Most of those inside the Catholic Church knew what these mavericks were all about but powerful forces bought them into the Church after assassinating a lot of the deep opposition. The results were nothing but trouble for the Church which eventually aided the Churches decision to destroy the order in 1773, it made the decision so much easier.
After 1773 the Jesuits then became event more rabid at the mouth to destroy the Church which was an all out foe from then on. From 1814 onwards New Venice has won as the Jesuits have taken over the Catholic Church! Since the second-Vatican Council all popes have become anti-Popes but I believe Benedict XVI may have been trying to destroy these Jesuits along with their financial system. Benedict XVI was dethroned before this could come to fruition and before he could bypass the Papal Conclave and install Cardinal Angelo Scola as the next Pope. Then look what happened, the Jesuits uncloaked and came forward putting their own Templar on the throne known as Francis I.
From now on simply watch as the final parts of the Catholic Church get destroyed just as they are doing with the Church of England. Study how the Venetians are truly Nilhilists and do not follow Catholicism and hate religion, innovation and people power. Forget the Bavarian Illuminati created by the Jesuits and instead go to the heart which is the Venetian connection. It is far deeper than just the Jesuits and we should not blame everything on Catholicism, it is way deeper than this.
-= The Unhived Mind