Pope Francis: 'Ideological Christians' Are a 'Serious Illness' [1]

Pope Francis. Photo Credit: Casa Rosada/Wikimedia Commons

Pope Francis continues to shake up the Catholic Church. As Raw Story noted, [3] he criticized what he called “ideological Christians” at mass last Thursday.

 

Francis said that ideologies are “rigid.” “When a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought,” Francis said, according to Radio Vatican. [4]

 

Francis added: “The faith becomes ideology and ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people, distances, distances the people and distances of the Church of the people. But it is a serious illness, this of ideological Christians. It is an illness, but it is not new.”

 

Francis’ comments on “ideological Christians” come a month after he criticized the Catholic Church’s obsession with gays, abortion and birth control.