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Pope Francis: better to be an atheist than a hypocritical Catholic
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Note the specific examples His Holiness gives in paragraph two of the excerpt. They aren't what some conservatives probably think they are.
Pope Francis: better to be an atheist than a hypocritical Catholic
Excerpt:
“There are those who say, ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to mass, I belong to this and that association’,” the head of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic church said, according to a Vatican Radio transcript.
He said some of these people should also say “‘my life is not Christian, I don’t pay my employees proper salaries, I exploit people, I do dirty business, I launder money, [I lead] a double life’.”
“There are many Catholics who are like this and they cause scandal,” he said. “How many times have we all heard people say ‘if that person is a Catholic, it is better to be an atheist’.”
Note the specific examples His Holiness gives in paragraph two of the excerpt. They aren't what some conservatives probably think they are.