Pope’s off-the-cuff remarks perplex conservatives-CathNews NZ/Pacific

Pope’s off-the-cuff remarks perplex conservatives

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Perplexed by Pope Francis’s habit of making off-the-cuff remarks, many conservatives in the United States are openly questioning his statements.

“Behind the growing scepticism is the fear in some quarters that Francis’s all-embracing style and spontaneous speech, so open as it is to interpretation, are undoing decades of Church efforts to speak clearly on Catholic teachings,” the Washington Post reported.

Additional reading

News category: News Shorts.

Tags: conservatives, Pope Francis

When war becomes personal

Our attitudes to war change drastically when it becomes personal. When it is distant, it involves people whose nationality and culture we do not share, and wrongs of whose cause are disputed. But it does not affect us at gut Read more

New ‘human flourishing’ survey links frequent religious practice to life satisfaction

Announcing the results of a new Global Flourishing Study, a consortium of scholars and pollsters led by Gallup said that they found links between religiosity and people’s satisfaction with their lives. Religious influences The study, a joint project of Harvard Read more

Transgender inclusion? World’s major religions take varying stances on policies toward trans people

The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex. This is a setback for transgender people who had hoped Pope Francis might be setting the stage for a more welcoming approach from the Catholic Read more

CathNews New Zealand