Preventing people from leaving the Catholic Church is the prime objective of the Catholic Church. There is a reason it is the biggest church in the world. Anyone elected Pope, whether ‘reformist’ or ‘traditionalist’, understands this.
‘The Pope’ is always going to be shitty. When the person occupying that position is a decent human, they can make it a little less shitty. That’s about it. Ultimately it is an institutional problem and it needs an institutional solution.
Pick one. You can’t be a bigot and a decent person. And from his words, he’s a homophobe. How can you call a fucking bigot who doesn’t think I should get the same as a straight person decent?
‘The Pope’ is not a decent human. It is not even a human. It is a position, one that reflects the views of the entire Catholic Church, from the best to the worst.
So, even if the current person who occupies that position is a decent human (and I don’t know if he is; I’ve never met him), he has to wait for a significant majority of Catholics to accept gay rights before the Catholic Church can ‘officially’ accept it. Until then, he can unofficially support local churches accepting queer rights, and promote better people, which is basically what Francis also did.
Preventing people from leaving the Catholic Church is the prime objective of the Catholic Church. There is a reason it is the biggest church in the world. Anyone elected Pope, whether ‘reformist’ or ‘traditionalist’, understands this.
Sounds like any pope is going to be a piece of shit I’m going to hate.
‘The Pope’ is always going to be shitty. When the person occupying that position is a decent human, they can make it a little less shitty. That’s about it. Ultimately it is an institutional problem and it needs an institutional solution.
Pick one. You can’t be a bigot and a decent person. And from his words, he’s a homophobe. How can you call a fucking bigot who doesn’t think I should get the same as a straight person decent?
‘The Pope’ is not a decent human. It is not even a human. It is a position, one that reflects the views of the entire Catholic Church, from the best to the worst.
So, even if the current person who occupies that position is a decent human (and I don’t know if he is; I’ve never met him), he has to wait for a significant majority of Catholics to accept gay rights before the Catholic Church can ‘officially’ accept it. Until then, he can unofficially support local churches accepting queer rights, and promote better people, which is basically what Francis also did.