GFB wrote:Gigi wrote:I AM Catholic, and this pope is driving me crazy with his politics. Stick to faith and morals, Holy Father!
Ditto, and ditto!
So that would make both of you kiddos SECULAR Catholics that just believe the Pope is another elected official? You attend Mass? You recite the Creed? You take communion? You even announce yourself as Catholic...but you reject the Pope because HE doesn't lead the Church the direction you want and in the way that you approve of personally. You DO know that isn't how it works, right?
I can understand your feeling somewhat. I felt much the same way you do about Benedict. But, I never felt the need to attack the Pope because I didn't agree with his efforts to reverse the reforms of the last few decades. I just waited patiently for God to fire him...but he retired first. God moves in mysterious ways. And, it would appear, he ignores your political concerns in so doing and moving His true adherents on Earth.
This thread is interesting from the stand point of how clearly it illustrates the religious hypocrisy of the Right. Oh so pious, oh so Godly, oh so devote... as long as it serves your purposes. Let religion QUESTION you or the tenets of your particular form of political correctness and you show your true colors. I don't know exactly how to classify this position toward the Church. Maybe apostasy, not whatever, I would discuss with my priest whether I needed to seek reconciliation before I took Communion again. And, oddly enough, I would listen to his guidance.
Or you could go fins a Church that agrees with you more...maybe Westboro.