Sonja at WIT shares a bit of Pope Francis’ homily from Wednesday. It strikes me as saying rather the opposite of what Bishop Paprocki had to say in the same-sex marriage forum we talked about yesterday.
Thomas Paprocki, bishop of Springfield, Ill., last Friday:
Paprocki said [Sr. Jeannnine] Gramick presented her case from an emotional position while he said the church’s stance comes from the position of faith and reason.
“My position is not a question of anecdotal stories,” he said.
Francis, bishop of Rome, June 5, 2013:
The Sadducees were talking about this woman as if she were a laboratory, all aseptic – hers was an [abstract] moral [problem]. When we think of the people who suffer so much, do we think of them as though they were an [abstract moral conundrum], pure ideas, “but in this case … this case …,” or do we think about them with our hearts, with our flesh, too? I do not like it when people speak about tough situations in an academic and not a human manner, sometimes with statistics … and that’s it. In the Church there are many people in this situation.
See earlier: “Thou shalt not treat human beings as ‘controversial issues’”
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