I must admit, compared to his predecessors, Pope Francis is a breath of fresh air. Unlike the idiotic popes before him, this guy seems to be living in the 21st century, is logical and has the testicles to say what he believes. Too bad it took hundreds of years for the Catholic Church to have a representative like Pope Francis. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis said Wednesday that it may be “morally necessary” for some families to split up, marking a change of tone in the Catholic Church’s attitude to troubled marriages.
“There are cases in which separation is inevitable,” he said during his weekly general audience, with a message hoping to encourage greater compassion in the Church ahead of a highly anticipated global meeting on family life in October.
“Sometimes, it can even be morally necessary, when it’s about shielding the weaker spouse or young children from the more serious wounds caused by intimidation and violence, humiliation and exploitation,” he said.
Francis said there were many families in “irregular situations” and the question should be how to best help them, and “how to accompany them so that the child does not become daddy or mummy’s hostage”.
The issue is likely to be addressed during the upcoming synod — a gathering of bishops — on the family, which Francis hopes will help reconcile Catholic thinking with the realities of believers’ lives in the early 21st century.
A first synod on the issues last year saw riled conservative bishops mobilise to block the approval of language heralding an unprecedented opening to the gay community and greater flexibility on the treatment of divorced Catholics.
agreed, big problem is he has to deal with lot of older guys who don’t want to change a milimeter the way catholic church works and that’s something bad. He’s committed to his task but he’s fighting against hard resistance from people far away from everyday life, but I really like him too !