What?? Is this true??

[PearlSeeker]

I think there is something wrong that the Pope has to tell a group of initiates to priesthood that they should stay away from pornography. The "impure heart" cannot receive Jesus ?? How about those not entering the priesthood, you think it's ok for them to be involved with pornography?

The Pope said: "It is a vice that has so many people, so many lay people, and also priests and nuns."

 

[stvdv]

I believe you were speculating that there was an irony.

No I was not

 

[Left Coast]

The problem is that when a person dedicates himself in singular service to his god, you'd think he'd already be clean in mind, body, and spirit.

You'd think that about JW elders, too, but we all know that isn't the case either. Why is it worse when Catholic clergy sin than when your leaders do it?

Furthermore, to be clean in Jesus' eyes as the Pope implied, means what? Or rather, what does it mean to be unclean...

He's talking about receiving the Eucharist. You're supposed to be free of mortal sin when you do that, which priests do daily.

 

[YoursTrue]

You'd think that about JW elders, too, but we all know that isn't the case either. Why is it worse when Catholic clergy sin than when your leaders do it?



He's talking about receiving the Eucharist. You're supposed to be free of mortal sin when you do that, which priests do daily.

It's not about sinning. It's about those considered consecrated. Doesn't the Pope believe it's ok to belong to another religion in other words, not be Catholic yet be possibly saved?

 

[Left Coast]

It's not about sinning. It's about those considered consecrated. Doesn't the Pope believe it's ok to belong to another religion in other words, not be Catholic yet be possibly saved?

I have no idea what the connection is in your mind between those two thoughts. What does the possibility of non-Catholics being saved have to do with priests' sexual proclivities?