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Friday, June 1st, 2018

‘Heretic’ in the Vatican

Author:     HANNAH ROBERTS
Source:     Politico
Publication Date:     5/31/18, 8:10 AM CET
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Stephan:   Changes in the Roman Catholic Church are historically significant because  fifty per cent of all the world's Christians are Catholic. They represent sixteen per cent of the human race. Whenever 10% of any group, regardless of its size moves in consciousness, the whole cohort, changes in response. The Roman Church  has been moving deeper and deeper into crisis. If you read me regularly you know I have been tracking this trend in SR for years. Pope Francis is proving to be the pivot point, and his choices are very interesting.  He has recently publicly stated that he wants no homosexuals in the clergy. He thinks  At the same time, his progressive views on other issues, as this story lays out, are causing a rising pushback from conservatives.  How this plays out will affect all of us to one degree or another.

A gust of wind lifts the mantle of Pope Francis during a weekly general audience in St Peter’s square on May 23, 2018 in Vatican.
Credit:: should read Alberto Pizzolia/AFP/Getty

ROME — “They call me a heretic.”

Not the words you’d expect to hear from the head of the Roman Catholic Church. But that’s what Pope Francis told a group of fellow Jesuits in Chile earlier this year, acknowledging the fierce pushback from arch-conservatives in the Vatican.

Celebrated by progressives around the world for his push to update and liberalize aspects of church doctrine, Francis is facing fierce blowback from traditionalists who take issue with his openness to Muslim migrants, his concern for the environment and his softer tone on divorce, cohabitation and homosexuality. Opposition has become so heated that some advisers are warning him to tread carefully to avoid a “schism” in the church.

Father Thomas Weinandy, a former chief of staff for the U.S. bishops’ committee on doctrine, has accused Francis of causing “theological anarchy.” Another group of bishops has warned Francis risks spreading “a plague […]

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