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Cartoonist

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Thu Sep 12, 2019, 08:09 PM Sep 2019

Why do some Catholics oppose Pope Francis? [View all]

This article is hard to read. They didn't proofread it so there's lots of repetition. Besides the Latin, there's an abundance of jargon.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/09/12/why-do-some-catholics-oppose-pope-francis

It is neither unusual nor surprising to encounter discord and opposition in the Catholic Church. Such disagreement stretches back from the present day to the time of St. Paul, who stood up to Cephas in Antioch (Gal 2:14).
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At present, there is a strong group opposing Francis’ church: laypeople, theologians, bishops and cardinals who would like him to resign or promptly disappear from the scene while they wait for a new conclave to change the current direction of the church.
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Obviously, the problem is not that he is not a theologian but rather that his theology is pastoral. Francis passes from dogma to kerygma, from theoretical principles to pastoral discernment and mystagogy. And his theology is not colonialist but from the Global South, and this bothers the North.
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The announcement of the upcoming synod on the Amazon in October 2019, which will amplify the need to protect the environment and save indigenous Amazonian groups from genocide, is already beginning to annoy. Some major church leaders have said that the instrumentumlaboris, or working document for the synod, is heretical and pantheistic and denies the need for salvation in Christ.

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From the article: guillaumeb Sep 2019 #1
What striked me about the article Cartoonist Sep 2019 #2
Good observations, as were your initial comments. guillaumeb Sep 2019 #3
Oh no! Cartoonist Sep 2019 #4
Like nightmare on Elm Street, guillaumeb Sep 2019 #5
How does Francis differ from Ratzinger and Wojtyła on birth control? AtheistCrusader Sep 2019 #6
We agree on this point, and pollign suggests guillaumeb Sep 2019 #7
Well, that's fantastic! Act_of_Reparation Sep 2019 #8
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