Pope's "rabbit" comments are coming into context. [View all]

[Fred Sanders]

Last edited Tue Jan 20, 2015, 05:06 PM - Edit history (6)

Verbatim quote, translated from Italian:

"Some think that - excuse me if I use that word - that in order to BE good Catholics, we have to BE like rabbits? - no. No. Responsible paternity. That is clear".

CNN Banner: Pope: Parents Shouldn't BREED "Like Rabbits"


Context is important. The message I got, with the still partial, but not full context, was a message FOR birth control.

He was responding to some question from a journalist aboard the plane as he flew back to Rome from The Phillipines, where 6,000,000 folks.....estimated.....attended a Mass.

More context to come? Maybe a correction by the.....journalists of American mass media?

Fox?

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Edit: Did not know this:

"Francis has largely shied away from emphasizing church teaching on hot-button issues, saying the previous two popes made the teaching well-known and that he wants to focus on making the church a place of welcome, not rules. But his comments were clearly a nod to the local church, which recently lost a significant fight when President Benigno Aquino III pushed through a reproductive health law that allows the government to provide artificial birth control to the poor."

I do not agree with the opinions expressed in the highly editorialized report from cbc.ca, no link.

Apparently President Aquino had a struggle with the Catholic Church in the Phillipines over providing these services to the poor, who are really, really poor.

Edit:

Video and translation at post #36.