Pope Francis is upending catholic tradition once again, and many of his followers aren’t happy.
Pope Francis was selected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, after several years of scandal-prone leadership from his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI. But it wasn’t long until Francis began stirring controversy himself.
Unlike his predecessor — who was often characterized as “too conservative” — Francis immediately began liberalizing the Catholic faith. He suggested that his followers apologize to gay people and validated the beliefs of competing religions, claiming that all religions worship the same god. Then, in perhaps the most bizarre development of last year, the pontiff began an unprompted feud with Donald Trump over immigration policy.
So it should come as no surprise that Pope Francis is once again upsetting many of his diehard followers with an announcement that seems to go against fundamental Catholic values.
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That’s really interesting the first Christians were Roman Catholic Greek Orthodox and the ortadox church set up by the apostles. So you say they weren’t Christians. They were there a thousand years be for the Protestant Churches.
Of course they can, Jesus said so. But, that doesn’t absolve them of state punishment.
Only God can forgive sins!
I keep telling you he is not a Christian. He is either a Muslim or an Atheist. Either way he plans to destroy Christianity! Maybe he is the AntiChrist!
Only God.can do that.
My faith is with Jesus
Christ gave that privilege to the Apostles not all the priests. The priest is the middle.man that God works through. The sin is not forgiven is not truly sorry for doing it. If your Catholic ask your priest.
Really. I am glad I am not Catholic! I wouldn’t want to have my sin forgiven by a sinner, that would be like the blind leading the blind.
Only God can forgive sins!
That was generous of him. Share the wealth.