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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
I think the question of why the Pope met with her, what did they talk about and how you, as a Catholic, feel about it are legit discussions. As a non-Catholic, all I can think of is, "What the hell was he thinking?" Seriously wondering what you think.
It seems you are deftly avoiding the topic with the hate inferences. It is "irresponsible to read into it too much", but you are ready to paint CP with the anti-Catholicism brush? Pretty rich.
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No, obviously just stirring the pot a little bit.
I am Lutheran, not Catholic, but I do feel that the Church is genuinely, and purposefully misunderstand as part of a centuries long propaganda campaign by secularists to smear both its past and present image.
All I would say is this. The Catholic Church is one of the biggest, if not the biggest Western institution, in our civilization's 2500 year long history. It is absolutely and brutally simplistic to boil the whole thing down to a "Idiots Guide to the Crimes and Perpetual Injustices of the Catholic Church." Simplifications of the Church's view on reproductive rights and marriage combined with the constant bleated accusations of bigotry are extraordinarily irritating, and also exhausting to counter. You are literally fighting the wave of an entire irrational culture here.
That said, this visit. I don't know why he met with her. If it was just to thank her for her courage, then I think that is probably the job of the Bishop of Rome to encourage, pray, and perhaps, correct the actions of ordinary Catholics. If we are just about boiling the Catholic Church down to "optics," as if the whole point of Christianity's largest church was just a public relations campaign, especially as it relates to widely-held sentiments regarding gay marriage, then the entire point of free discussion has been lost.