Santorum: ‘It’s Sometimes Very Difficult To Listen To The Pope’
In an unprecedented statement to reporters during his flight from the Philippines to Rome, the Pope suggested that Catholics could take measures to limit the number of children they have. “God gives you methods to be responsible,” he said, according to the National Catholic Reporter. “Some think that — excuse the word — that in order to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits. No.”
When he was asked for reaction to that statement on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show Wednesday, Santorum said, “It’s sometimes very difficult to listen to the Pope and some of the things he says off the cuff, and this is one of them.” The former Republican presidential candidate explained that with these remarks, Pope Francis was “giving his own opinions” and that he words don’t actually “reflect the idea that people shouldn’t be fruitful and multiply, and that people should be open to life as something that is a core value of the faith and of the Catholic Church.”
“Maybe he’s speaking to people in the third world, but the problem certainly in most of the Catholic world is not procreation,” Santorum continued. “I mean, in Europe in particular, you have birth rates that are only over, just a little over one for every two people. So this isn’t a global problem, and I don’t know what the Pope was referring to.”
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allison1050 January 22nd, 2015 at 08:52
Dumb ass. To most it was a form of social security and to most Americans it was viewed almost as a ticket to god and to other Americans if you could get at least a nun or a priest out of the herd it was like a 1 way ticket to god.
allison1050 January 22nd, 2015 at 08:52
Dumb ass. To most it was a form of social security and to most Americans it was viewed almost as a ticket to god and to other Americans if you could get at least a nun or a priest out of the herd it was like a 1 way ticket to god.
allison1050 January 22nd, 2015 at 09:52
Dumb ass. To most it was a form of social security and to most Americans it was viewed almost as a ticket to god and to other Americans if you could get at least a nun or a priest out of the herd it was like a 1 way ticket to god.
William January 22nd, 2015 at 08:54
Good Ol’ Ricky. When he’s not obsessing about gay sex, he’s obsessing about religion.
William January 22nd, 2015 at 08:54
Good Ol’ Ricky. When he’s not obsessing about gay sex, he’s obsessing about religion.
William January 22nd, 2015 at 09:54
Good Ol’ Ricky. When he’s not obsessing about gay sex, he’s obsessing about religion.
Stan Ubeki January 22nd, 2015 at 10:16
It’s always difficult to hear someone in authority tell you you’re full of shit.
Jimmy Fleck January 22nd, 2015 at 11:18
I don’t understand all of the fuss on what the Pope said. The Catholic Church has long taught classes on natural family planning. This is what the Pope was referring to when he said God gives us methods to be responsible.
Jimmy Fleck January 22nd, 2015 at 12:18
I don’t understand all of the fuss on what the Pope said. The Catholic Church has long taught classes on natural family planning. This is what the Pope was referring to when he said God gives us methods to be responsible.
Bunya January 22nd, 2015 at 14:45
I can understand why Santorum would find the pope” very difficult to listen to”. After all, I’m pretty sure the pope doesn’t speak stupid, the national language of the GOP.
Bunya January 22nd, 2015 at 15:45
I can understand why Santorum would find the pope” very difficult to listen to”. After all, I’m pretty sure the pope doesn’t speak stupid, the national language of the GOP.