Pope Francis

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What are those seven instances?

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I’d better hide my toothbrush.
 
JReducation said:
the act is heinous, but the culpability of the person may range from full to none at all.
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Yup. Grave matter alone is not equivalent to mortal sin.

I can’t believe how many Catholics I’ve met who were never taught that.
 
aspirant said:
Yup. Grave matter alone is not equivalent to mortal sin.

I can’t believe how many Catholics I’ve met who were never taught that.
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I believe that this is something that this pope is going to show us. Pope Benedict wrote about Truth and Charity and how they’re inseparable.

Pope Francis is going to show us what Pope Benedict was talking about. He will proclaim that truth, but be very merciful toward those who err.
 
JReducation said:
I believe that this is something that this pope is going to show us. Pope Benedict wrote about Truth and Charity and how they’re inseparable.

Pope Francis is going to show us what Pope Benedict was talking about. ** He will proclaim that truth, but be very merciful toward those who err.**
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Very appropriate for the Non-Catholic forum.

Thank you
 
This is a very exciting papacy so far. I sense a change in the air. The traditionalist Roman Catholics are getting very itchy, but this is where I think one delineates a true ‘orthodox’ Catholic from a ‘traditionalist’ stuck with certain rituals and ways of thinking from a time period, that have been superseded. If Pope Francis combines the same moral clarity as his predecessor - on issues like abortion and gay marriage - with this spirit of simplicity and truth, and Christian love, the next five years or so could be the most significant period of transition the Roman Catholic Church has gone through since Vatican II. I watch with interest.
 
JReducation said:
Beyond that, the bishop and the pope can excommunicate you if he does not like the color of your toothbrush.
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Ok I’ll take my :tiphat: off to you, your definitely well educated in this subject.

I sensed you were getting angry, sorry, fair play & God Bless…
If it’s a bishop who does the excommunicating, Rome has to uphold it. If it’s Rome doing the excommunicating, your dead in the water. There is no one higher to whom you can appeal.
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God ? 🙂
 
Indifferently said:
This is a very exciting papacy so far. I sense a change in the air. The traditionalist Roman Catholics are getting very itchy, but this is where I think one delineates a true ‘orthodox’ Catholic from a ‘traditionalist’ stuck with certain rituals and ways of thinking from a time period, that have been superseded. If Pope Francis combines the same moral clarity as his predecessor - on issues like abortion and gay marriage - with this spirit of simplicity and truth, and Christian love, the next five years or so could be the most significant period of transition the Roman Catholic Church has gone through since Vatican II. I watch with interest.
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I’m part of a very traditional Franciscan community. I always tell the brothers that tradition is not about rituals alone. Tradition is about a vision and mission. One must constantly ask oneself “What was the original vision and mission in this situation?”

For example, when Pope Francis washed the feet of those youngsters, the Franciscan reaction was, “What is the original tradition and mission that would bring us to a juvenile detention center? What would Francis do?” We go down that road. Francis would never commit an infraction that could compromise the liceity and validity of the sacraments. That fidelity is also part of our tradition. But Francis made many exceptions to many rules in order to preserve the original mission of the order, a mission that only he could see and that he tried to communicate to us as best he could. I’m reminded of when Francis approached Pope Innocent III and complained that the missal and breviary were not going to work, because they were too expensive. The vision and mission of the order was to embrace the virtue of poverty. Poor people don’t buy expensive missals and breviaries. Pope Innocent gave him another missal and told him to write his own version of the Divine Office. The wrote the Office of the Passion. This is a wonderful example of dispensing with something for the sake of the mission.
 
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