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eric's avatar

“This pope can be firm and straight only with traditional Catholics, but not with Moscow…” My thoughts exactly.

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Is anyone else mystified by this papacy's seeming incoherence on the most impactful issues it positions itself on? Why, for instance, does it sweep aside all notions of a "just war" (and by so doing, rejects the notion of an "unjust war"), while in almost (in terms of the calendar) the *same breath*, twists itself into tortured knots to justify the faithful participating in the grave moral evil (and the extremely dubious technical achievement) that is the Covid vaccine. Any dispassionate witness of these two teachings should be left bewildered at the inconsistency: when is a black/white good/evil moral proposition not subject to a simple binary choice/judgement? And, more important: why? Why is this context so different than that context? I confess that despite my desire to unfailingly follow His Church as our surest path to salvation, at times like this I am left shaking my head and wondering how the Church can vacillate from JPII's unwavering support for human dignity to what we witness now.

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