The Hill Blames Pope For ‘Wedge Between Catholic Church, GOP’
Click here for reuse options!Francis’s agenda, which also includes calls to address income inequality and limit climate change, is putting him at odds with Republicans, including GOP Catholics in the United States.
Hours after President Obama announced moves to ease trade and travel
restrictions to Cuba, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a practicing Catholic and potential 2016 presidential candidate, criticized the deal and Francis’s role in it.“I would also ask His Holiness to take up the cause of freedom and democracy, which is critical for a free people, for a people to truly be free,” Rubio told reporters.
Rubio said that Cubans “deserve the same chances to have democracy as the people of Argentina have had, where he comes from, as the people of Italy have, where he now lives.”
His office declined additional comment for this story.
Fellow Catholic Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) said he wished Francis would stand up for the Cuban people “rather than their oppressors.”
“Sadly, in the case of Cuba, the Catholic Church has not always applied its basic principles of human dignity and reverence for the God-given freedoms that belong to every soul. I was supremely disappointed by press reports that the Pope had a hand in urging President Obama to cede crucial leverage that could have been used to help the Cuban people become free,” Diaz-Balart said.
It’s not the first time Francis has clashed with conservatives.
Since his papal inauguration in March 2013, the pontiff has publicly made policy remarks about income inequality and the environment that many American Catholics weren’t used to hearing coming from the Vatican, and not just from the pulpit.
“Inequality is the root of social evil,” Francis tweeted in March, after months earlier slamming “trickle-down” economics as a “crude and naïve” theory.
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Foundryman January 1st, 2015 at 19:18
Way to go Francis!!!.. keep up the good work!!!
Foundryman January 1st, 2015 at 20:18
Way to go Francis!!!.. keep up the good work!!!
Suzanne McFly January 1st, 2015 at 19:27
If these Christians read the entire Bible and read about the true teachings of Jesus, they would claim it was a liberal rag.
Suzanne McFly January 1st, 2015 at 20:27
If these Christians read the entire Bible and read about the true teachings of Jesus, they would claim it was a liberal rag.
raypc800 January 1st, 2015 at 19:31
It is way past time that the Catholic Church had a Pope that is enforcing the teachings of Jesus.
raypc800 January 1st, 2015 at 20:31
It is way past time that the Catholic Church had a Pope that is enforcing the teachings of Jesus.
wpadon January 1st, 2015 at 19:50
Where is the part Jesus spoke about freedom in the New Testament? Was that one of his parables?
veggiedude January 1st, 2015 at 21:28
The Romans would have had him arrested immediately if he had
wpadon January 1st, 2015 at 20:50
Where is the part Jesus spoke about freedom in the New Testament? Was that one of his parables?
veggiedude January 1st, 2015 at 22:28
The Romans would have had him arrested immediately if he had
edmeyer_able January 1st, 2015 at 20:12
Even my catholic relatives and friends don’t like to admit the truth……
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edmeyer_able January 1st, 2015 at 21:12
Even my catholic relatives and friends don’t like to admit the truth……
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shindigg January 1st, 2015 at 20:54
They don’t realize that THEY are what the Pope is talking about. They are supposed to obey the Pope. And since the Pope isn’t trying to emphasize and enforce something “new”, it should be much easier for them.
Too much rigid “earthly” “so certain” ideology forced on others (and they have accept it, otherwise there is some kind of freak-out), from wherever side the perpetrators of the rigid certainty comes from, is what I think the Pope rails against. The Pope advocates for more “earthly” problem solving and LOVE instead, that’s all.
Some of these entrenched Catholics childishly worrying about losing their “privilege” should start to focus on ways to PROBLEM SOLVE and act to GROW, like God wants for His people to do, while they are here alive on earth, it looks like is what The Pope is saying….
Jesus may not come back for another 10,000 years or more, or much more, or much less. Who knows when? People are supposed to try to emulate him is supposed to be people’s job meanwhile. Only He knows when it will be Right, with the Father.
shindigg January 1st, 2015 at 21:54
They don’t realize that THEY are what the Pope is talking about. They are supposed to obey the Pope. And since the Pope isn’t trying to emphasize and enforce something “new”, it should be much easier for them.
Too much rigid “earthly” “so certain” ideology forced on others (and they have accept it, otherwise there is some kind of freak-out), from wherever side the perpetrators of the rigid certainty comes from, is what I think the Pope rails against. The Pope advocates for more “earthly” problem solving and LOVE instead, that’s all.
Some of these entrenched Catholics childishly worrying about losing their “privilege” should start to focus on ways to PROBLEM SOLVE and act to GROW, like God wants for His people to do, while they are here alive on earth, it looks like is what The Pope is saying….
Jesus may not come back for another 10,000 years or more, or much more, or much less. Who knows when? People are supposed to try to emulate him is supposed to be people’s job meanwhile. Only He knows when it will be Right, with the Father.
edmeyer_able January 1st, 2015 at 21:05
Jimmy Carter knows whats up 90 years old and still building houses while w paints his toes.
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bpollen January 2nd, 2015 at 00:11
Jimmy’s a good man.
edmeyer_able January 1st, 2015 at 22:05
Jimmy Carter knows whats up 90 years old and still building houses while w paints his toes.
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bpollen January 2nd, 2015 at 01:11
Jimmy’s a good man.
Obewon January 1st, 2015 at 21:14
The right wing Hill’s empty critique parrots Rusty the racist lambasting Pope Francis’ statement as “pure Marxism.” http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/11579
Pope Francis: Trickle-Down Economics ‘Has Never Been Confirmed By The Facts’ http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/26/2997451/pope-francis-trickle/
Obewon January 1st, 2015 at 22:14
The right wing Hill’s empty critique parrots Rusty the racist lambasting Pope Francis’ statement as “pure Marxism.” http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/11579
Pope Francis: Trickle-Down Economics ‘Has Never Been Confirmed By The Facts’ http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/26/2997451/pope-francis-trickle/
granpa.usthai January 1st, 2015 at 21:43
But the Reagan folks had such good relations with the quiet Krisian Krowds that went full bore in destroying Manufacturing Bases in AmeriKa!
granpa.usthai January 1st, 2015 at 22:43
But the Reagan folks had such good relations with the quiet Krisian Krowds that went full bore in destroying Manufacturing Bases in AmeriKa!
allison1050 January 2nd, 2015 at 03:03
But Marco and Jose, what about China, Israel … and
allison1050 January 2nd, 2015 at 04:03
But Marco and Jose, what about China, Israel … and