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You gotta love this pope for throwing a wrench into the Catholic Church's conservatism. Examples: this, easing on gay marriage[1] and masturbation, and the fir
by H8crilA 6y ago
You gotta love this pope for throwing a wrench into the Catholic Church's conservatism.
Examples: this, easing on gay marriage[1] and masturbation, and the firebomb of insisting that if you don't care about refugees and you don't take them into your home then you're not a christian.
While I myself don't care too much about the institution - things like that do remind me of the Lindy Principle. Very old organizations may appear inert and stagnating only to remind you that they do have mechanisms of change and adaptation, otherwise they wouldn't have survived thousands of years.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis_and_homosexuality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis_and_homosexuali...
- neuland 6y agoThe Pope has not changed the Church's position in any way on homosexual behavior or masturbation. He may have made progressive moves on other issues. But not those, because they are core to the Catholic faith's understanding of natural law and sexuality. Granted, few catholics actually stick with the faith on sexual issues. But that doesn't affect the church's position. In fact, very few catholics keep to any of the church's important teachings: the true presence, confession, weekly mass attendance, abstinence before marriage, divorce and re-marriage, and the list goes on and on.