Pope says Church must ‘confront forms of paganism’ in secularism

[Michie]

In his meeting with his brother Jesuits in Belgium, Pope Francis call secularization a “complex phenomenon” and noted sometimes the Church must “confront forms of paganism.”

Speaking to 150 Jesuits in Brussels on Sep. 28, the pontiff answered a question from a member living in Amsterdam, one of the most secularized cities in the world.

In his reply, Francis noted he didn’t mean a paganism like the one in the ancient world.

“We do not need a statue of a pagan god to talk about paganism: The very environment, the air we breathe is a gaseous pagan god! And we must preach to this culture in terms of witness, service and faith. And from within we must do it with prayer,” he said in his remarks, which were published in La Civiltà Cattolica on Tuesday.

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Pope says Church must ‘confront forms of paganism’ in secularism

In his meeting with his brother Jesuits in Belgium, Pope Francis call secularization a “complex phenomenon” and noted sometimes the Church must “confront forms of paganism.”

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[Wolseley]

Says the pope who dragged "Pachamama" idols into St. Peters, and issued Fiducia supplicans.

I wish he'd make up his mind.

 

[RileyG]

Says the pope who dragged "Pachamama" idols into St. Peters, and issued Fiducia supplicans.

I wish he'd make up his mind.

I will only pray or him. I think, in his mind, he was helping the tribal people? I don't know.

Lord, have mercy.

 

[fide]

Says the pope who dragged "Pachamama" idols into St. Peters, and issued Fiducia supplicans.

I wish he'd make up his mind.

I'm sorry but that's the problem: he does "make up" his own mind. He does not fill it with Truth and submit it to Truth. He makes it up as he goes along and as the winds of this world blow by. And God has seen fit to allow the papacy to him. Maybe we deserve it, for our yearnings for compromise and part-time faithfulness. May God have mercy on us, and give us grace and light to turn to Him as He deserves,