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Smurfection 11 points ago +15 / -4

The pope's opinion on any given subject is not considered infallible. The Pope is only infallible when he is speaking through the extraordinary Magisterium and ex cathedra (from the chair). There are very few statements that are made by popes over the centuries that rise to that level. There was one in the 19th century concerning the Immaculate Conception and another in the 20th Century concerning the Assumption. That's two, in two centuries and that's considered a lot.

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Food4thought 2 points ago +2 / -0

Well, it seems like a lot of Catholics disagree with this Pope. How about throwing him out and trying again.

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Smurfection 1 point ago +3 / -2

That's not the way it works. Assassination seems the historical method of removing a bad pope. I'm not endorsing it but Popes generally die as Popes. We've had bad Popes before. I still believe the Holy Spirit is guiding the Church but we are going to have to suffer under a Marxist Agnostic, if not atheist, Pope for a time. God's ways are His own.

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Food4thought 1 point ago +1 / -0

Catholics need a little more 'can do' in their thinking. The laity has a lot more power than they think. Who writes the checks after all?

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Smurfection 1 point ago +1 / -0

Lately, it's been the Federal Government writing their checks and that's true of the mainline protestant churches too (some evangelical churches as well). It's been illegal immigration grants that is funding the USCCB. That's one of the reasons so many churches are totally far to the left as far as illegal immigration, asylum and refugees are concerned. They don't care what the parishioners think because they are getting grants for social justice wackiness.

It's quite the racket. They get a bunch of volunteers to do all the work, another bunch to donate stuff but they keep all the grant money for themselves.

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AndrewLB 2 points ago +4 / -2

My Eastern Orthodox Church aka the Orthodox Catholic Church most humbly disagrees.

We disagreed so much that we told the pope ,,I,, about 1k years ago.

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Smurfection 2 points ago +3 / -1

Umm, actually, in 1054 your Orthodox Church didn't break from the Catholic Church over the Pope, but rather over the filioque clause of the Nicene Creed. "And the son" but it was mostly a political break.