The Pope

That’s very true religion if you, where one visits the fatherless and widows and keeps oneself unstained from the world. But what about people who are stained by the world?

It does seem unfair. Only the rich deserve such privileges.

I wish you would find a way to overcome this negative attitude you have toward entities that you don’t benefit from.

You mean like an organization that fishes for homosexuals and pedophiles? That’s amusing, Gunda. And what would you draw them in with? Blowjobs and promises of equity and inclusion?

Is this the offering you will be giving up to God at the Great White Throne Judgment? May I borrow?

Which part of Revelation is literal?

I love how well you balance equity.

Learning should be fun but schools, especially colleges, are run by abusers.

What about your empathy skills? You just spent serious quality time demonstrating the most unempathetic behavior against Christian’s.

Don’t forget to water!

lol thanks for the generous invite and as much as i would enjoy helping around and getting free dog food and sleeping alongside with the dogs in your shelter… i think i will be more useful here and on the internet :wink:

Usually our helpers live in a simple Hotel in Faget. But even if you really wanted to house in one of the units - we usually don‘t have the luxury to have an empty one, as we already have to bring dogs to willing Romanians and pay them or have to feed them where they are to take them into the shelter if eventually one dog could be transported to Germany.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/black-smoke-billows-from-sistine-chapel-chimney-for-a-2nd-time-indicating-no-new-pope-yet-9.6751127

On women (before he became Pope):

When asked about calls for women’s governance in the Catholic Church at a synod press conference on Oct. 25, the American cardinal underlined that “the apostolic tradition is something that has been spelled out very clearly, especially if you want to talk about the question of women’s ordination to the priesthood.”

“Something that needs to be said also is that ordaining women — and there’s been some women that have said this interestingly enough — ‘clericalizing women’ doesn’t necessarily solve a problem, it might make a new problem,” Cardinal Prevost told journalists.

“And perhaps we need to look at a new understanding or different understanding of both leadership, power, authority, and service — above all service — in the Church from the different perspectives that can be, if you will, brought to the life of the Church by women and men.”

The cardinal, who has served as the prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops, noted that the Catholic Church is not a mirror image of society and “needs to be different.”

Cardinal Prevost explained that just because a woman can be president or have many different kinds of leadership roles in the world, there is not “an immediate parallel to say, ‘In the Church therefore…’”

“It isn’t as simple as saying that, ‘You know, at this stage we’re going to change the tradition of the Church after 2,000 years on any one of those points,’” he said.

At the same time, he added, women are continually taking on new roles of leadership both at the Vatican and in other parts of the Church, noting that Pope Francis recently appointed Sister Simona Brambilla as the secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

“I think there will be a continuing recognition of the fact that women can add a great deal to the life of the Church on many different levels,” he said.

Cardinal Prevost’s comments come after Religion News Service reported that “a ‘cohort’ of nuns favoring female ordination, and especially women deacons, has formed at the synod … mainly from Latin America and some from Europe.”

On homos:

As bishop of Chiclayo, Prevost opposed “gender ideology” in Peruvian school curricula, stating it promotes “genders that don’t exist”.[107] In 2012, he criticized popular culture’s sympathy for the “homosexual lifestyle” and same-sex families.[107] Prevost expressed reservations about “sympathy for beliefs and practices that contradict the gospel” and did not fully endorse nor reject Fiducia supplicans , a doctrinal declaration concerning blessings for people in a same-sex relationship. He stated that national bishops’ conferences should “interpret and apply such directives in their local contexts, given cultural differences”.[108]

just another old white lunatic in a position nobody should be in

sinead said it best:

Not the best example. That lunatic became a Muslim, lol. That’s way worse than the average Catholic or even the average US Evangelical.

lol i think its an excellent example; not many people can handle becoming rich and famous and just because someone makes sense about one topic doesnt mean they do on other topics :wink:

how is becoming muslim any worse than being a catholic or us evangelical?

Check out IS, Taliban and Wahabists.

Given that she became Muslim, she was not in a position to attack the Pope. May she RIP.

EDIT: Oops, I should’ve read more before replying. Gunda beat me to it.

none of those groups come even close to killing as many or supplying the world with as many weapons like christians do…

i believe everyone (no matter which group they belong to) is in the position to address (what they believe to be) evil

I don’t. I mean they have the right to speak, sure, but they don’t have any right to my taking them seriously. And I don’t. The Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia are not in a position to criticize Jews. Netanyahu and Likud in Israel are not in a position to criticize Muslims. And Trump is not in a position to criticize anyone.

naturally, but perhaps you should:
those that do bad things are in a better position to recognise and address bad things… doesnt make any of them any better

Really. I guess their victims and potential victims unfortunately are in a way better position.

normally no but yes, sometimes those victims also get the chance to get in a position to do the same bad things to others that are currently done to them

Nice try, but I didn’t refer to doing bad things but only to recognising and addressing bad things.