>>2612536>"I went to Catholic school and I…">"I grew up Catholic and I…">"I was a former Catholic priest and I…"in fairness, former evangelicals, protestants and even orthodox believers say this too. you most often hear it from former Catholics because Catholicism is "stricter" than every non-evangelical/baptist protestant denomination and also the largest church on earth
>The Pope says the death penalty is bad.it's not a magisterial nor infallible teaching, but the Pope's personal opinion. it's one of the many things that i believe comes from misguided empathy, which is a lot of where most normie leftist rhetoric comes from.
>The Pope says that deporting illegal immigrants is bad.did Leo or Francis say this? i don't keep up with their newest statements, although i think this also comes from a sense of misguided empathy, and also age. they don't exactly live on the frontlines where machete brandishing rapefugees prowl the streets, so it's easy to believe they may lose touch.
>The Pope says that giving communion to people who support abortion is okay but not to people who support the death penalty.i don't think any of them said this. The Church has been very clear on opposing abortion, even more than the death penalty, even post Vatican II
also, what
>>2612663 said is true. every organised Christian denomination, save for maybe some small conservative splinter sects, like SSPX, the russian old believers, some few and far between protestant churches, etc. struggles with these problems. in an attempt to keep up with and adjust to the world around them, they have made grave mistakes regarding principles of ethics and morality. hopefully 100, 50 or even 20 years in the future, we will look back on these and see these concessions towards modernity as mistakes not to be repeated