Matthew 5:37 Let your 'Yes' mean 'Yes,' and your 'No' mean
'No.' Anything more is from the evil one.
The commandment that unequivocally forbids a grave type
of lying: lying under oath ‘against’ neighbor, a mortal sin due to the gravity
of perjury and of causing grave harm to neighbor, also implicitly forbids all
lying, even when the act is only a venial sin[1].
Some people outside of Catholic are not exhausted of taking chopped
Pope’s statement, distort its context so they appear disparaging and a blatant lie and parade it
on social network. Just today I’ve got
this Facebook post with these messages:
DISTORTED MESSAGE: Feast of the Holy Family in Vatican , said
Jesus had to beg forgiveness from His parents when He got lost at the temple as
a child. This implies that Jesus
committed a sin. That is contrary to the
Bible because the Bible says that Jesus led a sinless lie.
ACCURATE MESSAGE: Pope Francis on the Feast of
the Holy Family last December 27, 2015 reflected on the power of forgiveness in
families and compared everyday family life to a constant pilgrimage of prayer
and love.
Taken from the Gospel of Luke, Pope Francis reflected
on the young Jesus who stayed in Jerusalem in Jerusalem in the Temple which
caused to Mary and Joseph when they could not trace His whereabouts.
“For this little ‘escapade,’ Jesus probably had
to beg forgiveness of His parents,” the Pope suggested. “The Gospel doesn’t say
this, but I believe that we can presume it.”
The Pope exclaimed that Mary’s question to Jesus,[2]
“Why have you treated us like this?” contains “has a specific admonition, bringing
to light the concern and anguish which she and Joseph felt.” The Pope added that
Jesus “surely remained close” to Mary and Joseph as a sign of His “complete
affection and obedience.” (Luke 2:41-52)
DISTORTED MESSAGE: The Pope has also made a
controversial statement in the past, saying that the Bible is a highly
dangerous book and that Jesus’ life ended in failure.
ACCURATE MESSAGE: To start a
plenary meeting, Pope Francis addresses
attendees in the opening ceremony to start a of the United Nations Sustainabe Development Summit 2015 held at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan,
New York last September 25, 2015.
He says the Bible is "a
highly dangerous book" attributing to the fact that several people in the
world are arrested or killed for possessing the book.
The Pope stresses that "The Bible is therefore
a highly dangerous book - so dangerous
that you are treated in some countries as if you were hiding hand grenades in
your closet"[3]
On the other hand, Pope
Francis addresses St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and told the parishioners
that Jesus’ human life ended in the failure of the cross.[4]
Pope Francis connotes that from an exterior,
human stand point, Jesus' death might appear like He was a failure, but not so from
God's position.
To give more emphasis, at
the time of salvific account, people expected the Messiah to lead a victorious
rebellion against the Romans, re-establish political autonomy to Israel and
reign in Jerusalem as a Davidic king, which the Lord did not. Taken from this
act, Jesus looked like a failed political revolutionary from mans’ point of
view, but from God's perspective Jesus has been victorious with His destiny.
DISTORTED MESSAGE: The Pope has even spoken out about fundamentalism (including Christian fundamentalism)
a number of times. Christian
fundamentalism is the belief that the Bible should be interpreted
literally. What does this all mean?
ACCURATE MESSAGE: In an inflight press conference
on the way back to Rome after a three-country tour of Africa, Pope Francis
criticized “fundamentalists” within the Church (without pointing to a
particular religion outside of Catholic).
Pope Francis when interviewed concerning
religious fundamentalism, in the light of the attacks by ISIS terrorists on
Paris say that “we are all God’s children, we all have the same Father… we need
to live peacefully alongside one another, develop friendships.”[5]
The pontiff says “Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions. We Catholics
have some - and not some, many - who
believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with
calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because
it is my Church.”
He added that “religious fundamentalism isn’t
religion, it is idolatry,” and that ideas and false certainties take the place
of faith, love of God and love of others.
“You cannot cancel a whole religion because there
is a group or many groups of fundamentalists at certain moments of history,”
the Pope said.
He said that “religious fundamentalism isn’t
religion, it’s idolatry,” adding that ideas and false certainties take the
place of faith, love of God and love of others.
[1] (Ronald L. Conte Jr., Roman Catholic theologian and Bible
translator, https://ronconte.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/what-does-sacred-scripture-say-about-the-morality-of-lying/
[2] Pope Francis to families: forgive each other and journey
together towards God, http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-to-families-forgive-each-other-and-journey-together-towards-god-20282/
[3] Michael Gryboski , Pope Francis Says the Bible Is a
'Highly Dangerous Book' http://www.christianpost.com/news/pope-francis-says-the-bible-is-a-highly-dangerous-book-147993/
[4] Jessilyn Justice, Pope Francis: Jesus' Life 'Ended in
Failure' http://www.charismanews.com/world/52394-pope-francis-jesus-life-ended-in-failure
[5] Pope Francis criticises ‘fundamentalist’ Catholics, http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/11/30/pope-francis-says-he-is-not-losing-any-sleep-over-vatican-leaks-trial/
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