WOW!....he really doesn't get it does he?.....he thinks it's about shifting "attitudes" toward child abuse and hermeneutics....UNBELIVABLE
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:13
"The pope explained that there was now a greater moral awareness of the seriousness of child sexual abuse, but that to understand the
mistakes of the past it was necessary to consider the historical and cultural context.
“It is a principle that helps me to interpret history a lot,” he said. “A historic event is interpreted with the hermeneutic of the time period in which it took place, not with a hermeneutic of today.”
Offering the example of the history of different “indigenous people,” the pope noted that to modern eyes there were “so many injustices, so much brutality, but it cannot be interpreted through the hermeneutic of today [now] that we have another conscience.”
PAUSE RIGHT HERE---HEY FRANCIS--WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PRIESTS OF GOD ABUSING CHILDREN SEXUALLY--NOT GEO-POLITICS OF THE 1600'S!... continue..
Francis also compared the Church’s shifting attitude towards
covering up sexual abuse with changed perceptions of the death penalty, noting that the Church went from having its own civil executioner to eventually progress beyond recognizing a need for capital punishment at all."
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But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:13
"The pope explained that there was now a greater moral awareness of the seriousness of child sexual abuse, but that to understand the
“It is a principle that helps me to interpret history a lot,” he said. “A historic event is interpreted with the hermeneutic of the time period in which it took place, not with a hermeneutic of today.”
Offering the example of the history of different “indigenous people,” the pope noted that to modern eyes there were “so many injustices, so much brutality, but it cannot be interpreted through the hermeneutic of today [now] that we have another conscience.”
PAUSE RIGHT HERE---HEY FRANCIS--WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PRIESTS OF GOD ABUSING CHILDREN SEXUALLY--NOT GEO-POLITICS OF THE 1600'S!... continue..
Francis also compared the Church’s shifting attitude towards
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