Pope Francis said the “reactionary attitude” among some American Catholics is “useless” in the face of doctrinal progress, according to remarks published Monday.
in La Civiltà Cattolica , a magazine often featuring the pope’s candid statements in meetings with his fellow Jesuits.said, “Those American groups you speak of … are isolating themselves. And instead of living on doctrine, on the true doctrine that always develops and bears fruit, they live on ideologies. But when in life you abandon the doctrine to replace it with an ideology, you lose, you’ve lost as in [a] war.
Those who are part of “a closing climate,” he said, “lose the true tradition” of the church “and turn to ideologies. … In other words, ideology replaces faith, [and] belonging to a sector of the church replaces belonging to the church.” In recent years, American Catholics — including some bishops — have criticized the Argentine-born pontiff as being too liberal in his attitudes on divorced people, gays and transgender individuals and for restricting use of the Traditional Latin Mass, something his predecessor Benedict XVI allowed more widely.‘ statement about homosexuals in the priesthood — “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” — set off a controversy that has only continued.
The pope said, “What I don’t like at all, in general, is that you look at the so-called ‘sins of the flesh’ with a magnifying glass, as has been done for a long time.” He said the exploitation of labor, lying or cheating “didn’t count” in many instances, but only “sins below the belt were relevant.”has called out American critics, nor is it the first time La Civiltà Cattolica, a 173-year-old semimonthly, has been the vehicle reporting such criticism.
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