Francis on priests in private Jesuit meeting: psych problems = rigidity = fixation on sex = clericalism = demonic

Father, don’t forget his uncharitable gossip about a woman who presented him with two new converts:

Today I felt a certain bitterness after a meeting with young people. A woman approached me with a young man and a young woman. I was told they were part of a slightly fundamentalist movement. She said to me in perfect Spanish: “Your Holiness, I am from South Africa. This boy was a Hindu and converted to Catholicism. This girl was Anglican and converted to Catholicism.” But she told me in a triumphant way, as though she was showing off a hunting trophy. I felt uncomfortable and said to her, “Madam, evangelization yes, proselytism no.”

Can you imagine how that young woman and her two convert friends must feel today, to have their spiritual father gossip about them this way?

I feel orphaned too. I pray that the pope realises the harm he does by speaking this way.

Have you ever seen young priests all rigid in a black cassock and hats in the shape of the planet Saturn on their heads? There are serious problems behind all this rigid clericalism.

Great pep talk to your young priests, Your Holiness. Amazing.

Really though, what was the point of releasing this to the press? It seems malicious, but I may be wrong.

“If anyone divorces his wife and marries another, he commits adultery.”
– Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Was He “rigid” and a practitioner of “clericalism”? I think not.

I’m with Christ.

At the root of society is the family.

At the foundation of making a family is sex.

Offhand I’d say that sex is worth a serious focus, esp for how easily it is acted upon today with seemingly (at least intentionally) no consequence, which PF has further affirmed is the case.

But EVEN IF it were minor, Christ reminds us about our behavior in small things projecting to bigger ones.

I am sickened by this latest.

I’d say PF has a medieval understanding of mental illness as demonic activity, but that would be unfair to the medievals.

Maybe it is more accurately a Soviet understanding. If you dissent from comrade Stalin, you must have a psychiatric illness.

My fear is that he knows exactly what he is doing.

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“Have you ever seen young priests all rigid in a black cassock and hats in the shape of the planet Saturn on their heads?”
Why does ‘young’ enter into his mockery? and he can judge anothers love for God by what they wear?!? Kinda like, “if you’re rigid then you are fake”
That disturbs me because I cant help but think that he doesnt understand piety. I think he has a juvenile (arrested maybe) development regarding giving honor to God. Disturbing comment from the Holy Father.