From the only reliable source of Catholic news on the net, Eye of the Tiber:
Pope Francis said Thursday that the majority of the words that come “spilling” out of his mouth are invalid because most of the time he doesn’t understand that what he says is permanent.
“We live in a culture of the provisional,” the Pontiff said, responding to a question about the “crisis of his pontificate.”
Francis said he often doesn’t comprehend the importance of what he’s saying when speaking off-the-cuff, which he said is “indissoluble.”
“Sadly in today’s pontificate, I don’t understand that what I say will have ramifications for not only my pontificate, but of the many pontificates to come,” he said. “I say something random, and people do not know what it means. And because people listen to me with the philosophy that I am the Pope, they believe I have fully contemplated and formulated what I am saying, which is, in many cases, not the case. This then makes what I say null.”
Francis went on to say that when Catholics have to spend most of their working lives defending what he says, and having to write blog posts or responses to comments on a combox asking if the “pope really said such and such,” clearly there is something invalid in many of the “weird, weird, weird” things that somehow manage to find their way from his brain to his mouth.
Go here to read the comments. PopeWatch was going to contact the Pope for comment but decided, based on the Pope’s words, that this would be pointless.
And since marriages are null but some cohabitations show fidelity then it follows that laity are often infallible while the Pope’s words are most often null. So if we’re dying in the hospital and doubtful about the rules about ordinary vs extraordinary medical care,we are to ask hospital staff if we can consult an investment banker or bus driver as to the principles involved.
Pope Francis is the number one reason to lengthen papal elections into months so that Cardinals can read everything papabile have said…ever.
This is the most clever thing Eye of the Tiber has ever come up with. Kudos to them!
“Francis went on to say that when Catholics have to spend most of their working lives defending what he says, and having to write blog posts or responses to comments on a combox asking if the “pope really said such and such,” clearly there is something invalid in many of the “weird, weird, weird” things that somehow manage to find their way from his brain to his mouth.”
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Hey, he is “empowering the laity”! Isn’t that God’s will?
Pope Francis wants to give priests in the confessional the power to annul marriages instead of a tribunal.
The sacrament of Penance is for the absolution of sins not for the annulment of the sacrament of Matrimony.