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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 1200784" data-attributes="member: 44954">Rule? Ya like thall shall not kill.With your line of thinking, maybe the church should refuse to give communion to soldiers.Everything is not as black and white as the leave it to beaver BS world you&#039;re trying to live in.Pope Francis faulted the Roman Catholic church for focusing too much&nbsp; on gays, abortion and contraception, saying the church has become&nbsp; &quot;obsessed&quot; with those issues to the detriment of its larger mission to&nbsp; be &quot;home for all,&quot; according to an <a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/pope-interview" target="_blank">extensive new interview </a>published Thursday. &nbsp; The church can share its views on homosexuality, abortion and other&nbsp; issues, but should not &quot;interfere spiritually&quot; with the lives of gays&nbsp; and lesbians, the pope added in the interview, which was published in La&nbsp; Civilta Cattolica, a Rome-based Jesuit journal.&nbsp; “We have to find a new balance, otherwise even the moral edifice of&nbsp; the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness&nbsp; and fragrance of the Gospel,&quot; Francis said in the interview. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/pope-francis-gay_n_3954776.html" target="_blank">source</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 1200784, member: 44954"] Rule? Ya like thall shall not kill. With your line of thinking, maybe the church should refuse to give communion to soldiers. Everything is not as black and white as the leave it to beaver BS world you're trying to live in. [SIZE=2]Pope Francis faulted the Roman Catholic church for focusing too much on gays, abortion and contraception, saying the church has become "[B]obsessed[/B]" with those issues to the detriment of its larger mission to be "home for all," according to an [URL="http://www.americamagazine.org/pope-interview"]extensive new interview [/URL]published Thursday. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE][SIZE=2]The church can share its views on homosexuality, abortion and other issues, but should not "interfere spiritually" with the lives of gays and lesbians, the pope added in the interview, which was published in La Civilta Cattolica, a Rome-based Jesuit journal.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE][SIZE=2]“We have to find a new balance, otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel," Francis said in the interview.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2][URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/pope-francis-gay_n_3954776.html"]source[/URL][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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