Pope Francis describes ‘ideological Christians’ as a ‘serious illness’ within the Church
By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, October 21, 2013 9:21 EDT
The Raw Story
Speaking at daily Mass last Thursday, Pope Francis warned Christians against turning their faith into a rigid ideology.
“The faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology,” he said, according to Radio Vatican. “And ideology does not beckon [people]. In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness. And ideologies are rigid, always. Of every sign: rigid.
“And when a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought… For this reason Jesus said to them: ‘You have taken away the key of knowledge.’ The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements.”
“The faith becomes ideology and ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people, distances, distances the people and distances of the Church of the people,” Francis added. “But it is a serious illness, this of ideological Christians. It is an illness, but it is not new, eh?”
Monday, October 21, 2013
I WONDER IF THE CATHOLIC GASBAGS WILL TALK ABOUT THIS
Bill Bennett, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ramesh Ponnuru, Pat Buchanan, Peggy Noonan, Kathryn Lopez and Kathleen Parker are all Catholics, so I hope they take this to heart.
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