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In reply to the discussion: Pope Francis uses new year mass to condemn slavery and human trafficking [View all]Cartoonist
(7,326 posts)42. Why not?
It's been done before. Certain Gospels have been deleted in the past.
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Pope Francis uses new year mass to condemn slavery and human trafficking [View all]
Eugene
Jan 2015
OP
I've read that some of the classic clown attire in the European tradition were from the same period.
pinto
Jan 2015
#4
Is this an excellent choice too? "Pope says same-sex marriage threatens family"
cleanhippie
Jan 2015
#84
The Pope is a Catholic. Catholics, unlike fundamentalists and evangelicals, aren't literalists.
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#61
"Taking a stand against slavery and human trafficking is a very good and very christian thing to do"
cleanhippie
Jan 2015
#85
What is your evidence for that? The Catholic Church does not teach a literalist view of the Bible.
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#62
"the scriptures" have been touched repeatedly over the last 2500 years or so.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2015
#56
To the contrary: on the subject of gay people, Pope Francis said: "Who am I to judge?"
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#67
He didn't backtrack. The paper produced for the Synod said gay people should be welcomed into
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#72
pnwoman was good enough to provide a direct source. Can you provide one for the "backtracking".
cbayer
Jan 2015
#76
Oh, they probably didn't get your memo that they were supposed to say something about the
cbayer
Jan 2015
#44
The Church teaches that you can't take individual sentences out of context and rely on them to be
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#65
You are a literalist. If you think that incorporating historical context when reading the
cbayer
Jan 2015
#33