A newly released transcript shows Pope Francis being highly critical of conservatives in the U.S., who he says have replaced faith with ideology.
"You have seen that in the United States the situation is not easy: there is a very strong reactionary attitude,” he said. “It is organized and shapes the way people belong, even emotionally.”Vatican Pool / Getty Images
Francis said being backward-looking “is useless and we need to understand that there is an appropriate evolution in the understanding of matters of faith and morals,” noting that concepts of morality change over time. “In other words, doctrine also progresses, expands and consolidates with time and becomes firmer, but is always progressing,” he added.Let us get to specifics. Today it is a sin to possess atomic bombs; the death penalty is a sin. You cannot employ it, but it was not so before. As for slavery, some pontiffs before me tolerated it, but things are different today. So you change, you change, but with the criteria just mentioned.
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