The Pope has issued a strange apology:
Last Friday, when Francis visited a Rome center for women rescued from prostitution rackets, he delivered an apology for one of these issues through both deeds and words, asking forgiveness from the women there, in the name of Christianity, for the suffering they’ve endured.
Although the Vatican didn’t give much information regarding the visit – it usually never does, when these encounters are considered private – Italian Father Aldo Bonaiuto, spiritual director of the Pope John XXIII Community Francis visited, spoke to Vatican Radio about it.
“[Francis] used very beautiful, yet very strong words: he asked for forgiveness in the name of all Christians for the violence and all the wrong-doings these girls had to suffer through,” Bonaiuto quotes the pope saying.
In the last three years, the Argentine pontiff has been one of the most outspoken global leaders on the matter of human trafficking, an illegal industry which affects more than 40 million people who are forced to work in slave-like conditions.
Francis has repeatedly called it “a crime against humanity.”
Go here to read the rest. Why would Christians have anything to apologize for in regard to prostitution? Any Christians involved in it are acting against the teachings of Christianity. Does the Pope share a belief popular on the left that Christianity is a malign force in the world and that Christians are, by definition, guilty? Does the Pope apologize just to get good press, other Christians be hanged?
Is the pope even Christian?
The undermining of the Faith and of the faithful is the one constant feature of this “papacy”. His lack of care for the sheep of his pasture is a dismal commentary on his sense of responsibility. Rather than a good shepherd, he is a merry goat-herd, without concern about the souls of men. St. Francis warned us, ” in those days Jesus Christ will send them, not a true Pastor, but a destroyer”. These are the days.
Obviously, we must add to the growing list those who have sex with animals and those who have sex with the dead.
Thus it is ESSENTIAL that the Pope make a public apology for the doctrinal and pastoral violence done to the people who have made these lifestyle choices by centuries of Catholic priests, Bishops and theologians who have condemned such practices.
It is apparent that to ignore them is to compound that violence with unjust discrimination.
Oh, forgot the sadomasochist.
How could I be so uncaring.
I firmly believe the Pope has a very difficult time saving The Apostles Creed with a straight face.
Were these women trafficked by Christians? Am I missing something, here?
He’s trying to out liberal all possible liberals imaginable on the prostitution issue…. except oddly, he is against gender identity as a choice which is good except that real chimeras do have a gender problem ( they are the result of two fraternal twin embryos laying too close to each other and merging into one cell mass then…one person results who has the dna of two twins which could be male and female). So the one spot he is conservative, he should allow for chimeras having trouble that is real in the gender area. We really need a chart to follow his problems and what tweaks they need. In general though, he gives me the heart break of psoriasis…and poison oak on top of the psoriasis patches. He’s good hearted but belongs in the papacy less than all sensible Cardinals worldwide. I’m not even sure if he’s preferable to the self handcuffing priest from the midwest. I’m not sure. Maybe that priest has a localized, treatable fetish that doesn’t affect his theology which would make him better than Francis for the office. Between the papacy and the US election cycle and ISIS existing at all….these are complex nutty days.
Another day, another Francisapology.
What is he talking about? Don’t apologize on my behalf….
Were these women forced into prostitution? What about the Christians who are abandoned and forgotten all over the ME- the women and girls traded into real sex slavery for Isis warriors…..He will not acknowledge Islamic terrorism.
So sick and sad. This guy is the Obama of the Catholic Church- doing more damage than any force outside the church.
We should not be surprised if the Pope apologized for being the Pope of the Catholic Church so ashamed is he of Catholic history and Catholic doctrine. He is like Obama who only diminishes American exceptionalism and demonstrates weakness with his inane apologies. Who would ever want to follow these two into a serious conflict, or in their case, a quick surrender.
This Pope is overpowered by his theorem of unlimited mercy; he forgets the corollaries to this theorem.
Sydney,
When he waxes infinite on mercy, here is the verse that contradicts him:
Romans 11:22Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
22 “See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.”
Temper that with this:
Proverbs 24:16-18Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
16 “For a just man shall fall seven times and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.”
In reading the article, it indicates the Pope is apologizing because the Church has not done enough to defend these vulnerable groups, in this case women forced into prostitution. ( That could be jyst the spin put forward by the article’s aurhor.) At least in the Middle East, I think it would be very difficult for the minority Christians to defend women, what with the Religion of Peace condoning sex slavery.
Bill Bannon: Thanks for fixing in Scripture what I simply said in street idiom.