You’re contradicting yourself in your own comment my guy. It’s always been this way, but that’s a tall argument to make, but no change happened? What are you even arguing?
I’m saying that technically speaking, the Pope hasn’t invoked any change in Catholic faith with his preaching, and is instead arguing to a change of understanding of the Catholic doctrine. Its both a big deal and a not-big-deal. It’s only a big deal if people make it into a big deal kinda thing. And… yes… people are making it into a bigger deal than it should be.
Not gay people mind you. This is good for LGBT+ communities. The people who are mistaken are the ultra-conservatives who think that things have changed dramatically with this announcement.
Jesus always called upon us to preach and try to understand outsiders. The Good Samaritan for example, was literally a non-religious outsider who Jesus specifically called out as a blessed person. None of this is necessarily “new preaching” from the current Pope, but instead a focus upon other elements of scripture.
Priests can bless sinners, heathens, pagans, etc. etc. Jesus chose literally corrupt Tax Collectors to become his Apostles for example. As such: Priests are supposed to bless even the most sinful among us… and are called to do so. A blessing is not supposed to be condoning a person’s behavior or a statement of morality. So even if you are a priest who believes that homosexuality is sinful, there’s nothing stopping you from blessing homosexuals (or if you are in that position, its arguably more important for you to bless them. A priest’s damn job is to reach out to sinners after all).
The reason such a statement is so annoying to the ultra-conservatives, is because they want to use Catholicism / Religion as a cudgel against gay people, when that never was the purpose of religion to begin with. This is literally a faith that was supposed to spread universally across the world after all. That’s literally what it means to be Catholic (IE: universal)
Ultimately, I’m saying yall should work with what the Pope is trying to say here. He’s thought deeply about this preaching and its a good argument. Both for Catholics and those outside of it (at least, if you want to understand how Catholics think/preach/etc. etc.)
You’re contradicting yourself in your own comment my guy. It’s always been this way, but that’s a tall argument to make, but no change happened? What are you even arguing?
They are catholic after all
Would it be Christianity without the contradictions?
I’m saying that technically speaking, the Pope hasn’t invoked any change in Catholic faith with his preaching, and is instead arguing to a change of understanding of the Catholic doctrine. Its both a big deal and a not-big-deal. It’s only a big deal if people make it into a big deal kinda thing. And… yes… people are making it into a bigger deal than it should be.
Not gay people mind you. This is good for LGBT+ communities. The people who are mistaken are the ultra-conservatives who think that things have changed dramatically with this announcement.
Jesus always called upon us to preach and try to understand outsiders. The Good Samaritan for example, was literally a non-religious outsider who Jesus specifically called out as a blessed person. None of this is necessarily “new preaching” from the current Pope, but instead a focus upon other elements of scripture.
Priests can bless sinners, heathens, pagans, etc. etc. Jesus chose literally corrupt Tax Collectors to become his Apostles for example. As such: Priests are supposed to bless even the most sinful among us… and are called to do so. A blessing is not supposed to be condoning a person’s behavior or a statement of morality. So even if you are a priest who believes that homosexuality is sinful, there’s nothing stopping you from blessing homosexuals (or if you are in that position, its arguably more important for you to bless them. A priest’s damn job is to reach out to sinners after all).
The reason such a statement is so annoying to the ultra-conservatives, is because they want to use Catholicism / Religion as a cudgel against gay people, when that never was the purpose of religion to begin with. This is literally a faith that was supposed to spread universally across the world after all. That’s literally what it means to be Catholic (IE: universal)
Ultimately, I’m saying yall should work with what the Pope is trying to say here. He’s thought deeply about this preaching and its a good argument. Both for Catholics and those outside of it (at least, if you want to understand how Catholics think/preach/etc. etc.)