Pope Francis: better to be an atheist than a hypocritical Catholic
Pope Francis has delivered another criticism of some members of his own church , suggesting it was better to be an atheist than one of many Catholics who he said lead a hypocritical double life.
In improvised comments in the sermon of his private morning mass in his residence, he said: 「It is a scandal to say one thing and do another. That is a double life.
「There are those who say, 『I am very Catholic, I always go to mass, I belong to this and that association』,」 the head of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic church said, according to a Vatican Radio transcript.
Pope Francis: better to be an atheist than a hypocritical Catholic
Pope criticises 『double life』 led by some members of his own church during the sermon of his private morning mass