“When you abandon doctrine in life to replace it with an ideology, you have lost,” the pope told a meeting in Portugal this month.
During the conversation, a member of the order who spent a year in the United States said he was upset by criticism of the Pope’s leadership, even among bishops.The situation in the United States is “not easy,” the pope responded. “There is a very strong reactionary attitude. It is organized and shapes the way people belong, even emotionally.”
He also cautioned against those he said were disconnecting themselves from the “roots of the church” by going “backward.” This is not the first time that the pontiff has responded to criticism from conservatives within the U.S. Church., when asked about criticism from conservative commentators, he said: “It’s an honor that the Americans attack me.” A Vatican spokesman later sought to clarify that the pope “was speaking in an informal context in which he wanted to say that he always considers criticism an honor.”Among the Francis’ main U.S.
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