Jimmy Akin defends the Pope. 'We are all good'

[Stella]

"The Catholic Church is fully aware that the reality of sin is the flipside of the good news, and preaching about sin is necessary to understand the gospel.

In fact, the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) states, “The doctrine of original sin is, so to speak, the ‘reverse side’ of the good news that Jesus is the savior of all men, that all need salvation, and that salvation is offered to all through Christ” (389).

So we’re agreed on this fundamental truth. However, in some Protestant circles, the “bad news first, then good news” idea has become fixed in the popular mindset of how to present the gospel. It’s a preaching tradition that has become so central that some can’t imagine presenting the gospel without using it.

This is particularly true in Protestant traditions that are focused on getting people to the point of a crisis conversion, with an altar call or saying the Sinner’s Prayer, where a terrified sinner suddenly turns his life over to God in a moment that fearful preaching has produced—as with Jonathan Edwards’s famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” The situation is worse in Protestant traditions—such as Calvinism—that have a rigid way of speaking about human sinfulness."

It's a short read...

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/onlin ... ng-out-sin

[ProZak]

[Doom]

I haven’t read the full context of the Pope’s remarks but I always assumed he meant ontologically good I.e. people have an inherent dignity because they bear the image of God. But even so, I find most adult people are pretty decent most of the time.