I read an article today that quoted the "Vatican", which I'm assuming means the Pope, as saying that "you don't have to believe in God to go to heaven." Which I suppose is quite the turn around for the Catholic Church. However, a few weeks ago the Pope mentioned that God loves everyone "even atheists", and the Vatican came out a few days later to make sure we all knew that even though God loves atheists they're still not going to heaven. Huh. Because that's kind of what the Pope said today.
I'm a little confused about this guy and this flip-flopping isn't doing much to change that. On the one hand, he seems like a perfectly sweet, humble and faithful man that is doing his part to take the church in the right direction AKA out of the dark ages. But when I hear things that say he "reprimanded" a sect of nuns for spending too much time helping people and not enough time spreading the word of God to non-believers, I get a little upset to say the least.
I'm not expecting the Vatican to take a full 360 and become completely liberal and accepting. That would be too much to ask. Add that to the column of things that are never going to happen. I only want them to stop confusing everyone and stick to one message. Is that so much to ask for a group of faithful that includes 1.1 billion of the world population?
PS: I can hear my mother secretly whispering that I'm about to be hit by lightning as I'm writing this post, which for a change gives me a slight pause as we're having a storm right now... : )
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