04-09-2016, 12:44 PM
The Pope Pushes for Greater Acceptance & Tolerance
Pope Francis released a sweeping paper yesterday urging Catholic priests around the world to be more accepting of gay men and lesbians, divorced Catholics, and other people living in what the church considers "irregular" situations." Hey, for the leader of the Catholic Church, that's aggressively progressive.
In the letter, the pope urges more common sense and less unthinking following of rules -- what he calls "discernment" -- and writes, "by thinking that everything is black and white, we sometimes close off the way of grace and growth."
Pope Francis released a sweeping paper yesterday urging Catholic priests around the world to be more accepting of gay men and lesbians, divorced Catholics, and other people living in what the church considers "irregular" situations." Hey, for the leader of the Catholic Church, that's aggressively progressive.
In the letter, the pope urges more common sense and less unthinking following of rules -- what he calls "discernment" -- and writes, "by thinking that everything is black and white, we sometimes close off the way of grace and growth."