recently Pope Francis %uh started to say things that made people think that maybe
he's a more progressive
pope than what we've seen in the past in fact he said that we're focusing way too
much for the Catholic Church is focusing way too much on so-called
small-minded roles including gay marriage and abortion
and she got a little body heat from that because %uh the fact that the Catholic
Church has been focusing on that for so long
and they would much rather judge others have as opposed to focus on I don't know
helping the needy helping the poor
so recently he gave an interview and here's how you walk the comments back he
said quote
every child that is important but is unjustly condemned to be aborted
has the face of Jesus Christ has the face
love the Lord I have been saying in in the
the I guess the wake up his past three statements I expect that at some point
he's going to have to go back to being
up pope and say something that a secular-minded individual like myself
isn't going to agree with an
I would say in terms of dousing abortion in terms of backtracking from what he
said this is a fairly light hearted backtracking
but it could be an indication that he is feeling some pressure from the restive
catholicism we did see the
the Catholic League President last week coming out hard against the Pope
which is an interesting thing to do as a catholic and so this might not be the
last thing the backtracks on now
I love the things he's been saying recently both about a gay marriage but
more about in a quality and things like that
and so I hope that on many of these issues he can you'll stay the course in
a backtrack too much yeah i i think that
what the best strategy for him and I love them giving the pope strategies
up believe what you believe when it comes to the small-minded
you know issues or small-minded rules I totally agree with their small my new
rules I don't think that any religion should dictate
how anyone else lives their lives if you're catholic and you don't agree with
it then you don't have to live your life that way
but at the same time focus more emphasize more on inequality
focus more on helping the poor and the needy focus more on how the middle class
and the working class in America
is just getting screwed over i mean those are real issues and I know that
it's not
pope that represents america you know this is the Pope of the Catholic Church
but you're seeing similar trends in other countries as well
and so raise awareness about that and emphasize that I think would actually do
a huge favor to the Catholic Church yeah know and I i think that it makes sense
for us to provide strategy were not like professional religious consultants or
anything like that but
I think that coming as we are from outside the community we can look in
speculate about its best interests i mean they're not doing too well
you look every five years or so the demographic shift about five points
that's held true for the past 20 years at least in america
more and more people are embracing secular approach to life and they have
to adapt they have to
evolve actually if they want to keep up I mean I saw recently we were able to do
this story today
but there is a peace organization that's kick-starting what's going to be
like potentially hundreds have congregations if not dozens or early on
in cities around
the world so the bads congregations I don't like the religious language
personally
right but do you basically like organizations where we I
atheist would beat up and there be talks in there be sing-alongs so
with with the the goal being that you would get all the social benefits a
belong to a church without all the
the supernatural mumbo-jumbo and stuff like that so I'm in suits worn on that
though because
on one hand you are someone who wants to
like denounce organized religion but you kinda creating an organized religion
have your own now is that it's a piss at all
because I don't want helms like your us its it's like a social group it's like a
back in my home town where Italian guys get together and drink and play chess
and stuff
call you can use social group exactly yeah yes
the articles are calling it congregations because it does look like
it to me it's a larger room but everything looks at her feet were
singing
whenever people gather in singer their musical our church generally
in america and but anyway so yes I think the pope doesn't respond perhaps not to
that pressure in particular
but to the inevitable march towards a more progressive approach to the world a
more scientific
approach the world it's long overdue just a little more damage control from
the vatican
I the communications adviser said the following: the pope is not condemning
his predecessors what he is saying is
we spent a lot of time talking about the boundaries we spent a lot of time
talking about what is sayin
and what's not let's move on let's talk about mercy let's talk about love
and I'll I think that was a good response I think that was the best way
to handle it
but some like Michael Moore wrote that it typically better why
you know I totally agree look I understand if you are
a very right-wing evangelical in america like feeding the poor is expensive
denouncing gay people
that shits free yeltsin like and and look I i understand people tax because
were unfairly harsh in Christian yes they're constantly doing charity we
totally understand that
I just don't think that having like a split where you have a certain maturity
in a certain out at Zia phobia
is OK just to the charity in again your side