Pope Francis is NOT a populous leader. He leverages his influence and leadership with inclusion and facts.
Since the elevation of the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Constantine that called Easter a holiday for pagan rituals, too, there has not been a Pope with the insight and resolve to set the religion back on it's feet.
Pope Francis is a doctrinal Pope, not a populous Pope. His drive to find resolve to Catholic Doctrine permanence brings those estranged from the Roman Catholic Church back home. He is brilliant. He loves the people and is determined to not only show them the way home, but, to demonstrate the strength of the faith. A populous figure can only smile for so long to hold the loyalties of many before they become estranged from the dogma that first attracted them. Pope Francis is speaking truth to the strength of the faith and it's promise to every one of the diaspora.
October 28, 2014
By Josephine McKenna
"God is not a divine being or a magician, (click here) but the Creator who brought everything to life," the pope said. "Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve."
Unlike much of evangelical Protestantism in the U.S., Catholic teaching traditionally has not been at odds with evolution. In 1950, Pope Pius XII proclaimed there was no opposition between evolution and Catholic doctrine. In 1996, St. John Paul II endorsed Pius' statement.
Some wondered if Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI wanted to change that when he and some acolytes seemed to endorse the theory of intelligent design, the idea that the world is too complex to have evolved according to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna, a close associate of Benedict, penned a widely noticed 2005 op-ed in The New York Times that said "Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense — an unguided, unplanned process … is not."...
Evolution is not planned. It develops out of 'condition.' Diversity is the basis of evolution. Evolution does not disregard any religion, but, it does stand alone as a potential for a reality that dismisses 'chance.'
In other words, is God watching over all that transpires on Earth as a guardian and protector? Or is God so wise and inconceivable in human thought that evolution is a protection for all species in the world created?
