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Article said: "On Saturday Pope Francis greeted Juan Carlos Cruz, an openly homosexual man whom he appointed to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors earlier this year at the Vatican. Cruz is himself a victim of clerical sexual abuse."
This man who was a victim and is a homosexual is likely better to find abuse than a "straight" person who has never experienced being a victim of such.
I am a Catholic and do not believe any Catholic Priest or Pope is to be thought of as extra godly and perfect. They are all humans, period. I believe this Pope acts as Jesus did. Jesus came for the sinful and did not turn them away. Jesus went to them. That is what this Pope does. It appears most people do not want the Pope to see or meet or talk to the homosexual population. That is anti-Jesus thinking.
If one wants the Pope to stay away from sinners, then the Pope would never talk to a human being. I suppose that thinking means those of you, who want the Pope to stay away from people you think are too sinful to talk/meet with the Pope, must make a list of permitted sins that allows one to talk to the Pope and also a list of nonpermitted sins that stops the person from talking with the Pope.
I am not with the Pope every day to know his schedule so I do not make decisions about his actions coming from other people who desperately want the Pope gone. You know what? Every Pope gets hammered by people across the world. He is evaluated by God, not by you and me.
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Hmm.................so apparently sanctimony is the only required ingredient to enter the
Gates of Heaven? Who knew? A firm yet respectful demurral.
The wise ancients grasped that the building block of Civilization (culture & society)
was the family unit of Father/Husband, Mother/Wife and their Children.
As such, they supported attitudes and behaviors which encouraged the Family to
survive and thrive while condemning and punishing those that harmed and/or destroyed it. Among the latter were abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism; among kindred corrosive neurotic behaviors.
Such thinking existed among Man's wisest, thousands of years before structured religions
such as Roman Catholicism and they formed guideposts to better Mankind's condition.
How did they develop such thinking? By creating and applying Logic and Reason.
And what did they examine? The actions of Human Nature.
As a consequence, these ideas defined Natural Law, Man's Anchor from Eden till the Enlightenment spanning more than 120,000 years.
Given his performance, doubt Pope Frankie ever heard any of this.