Pope Francis suggests being 'conservative' is a 'suicidal attitude' in rare interview
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Pope Francis said conservatives held a "suicidal attitude" toward church doctrine and progress in a new rare interview that aired Sunday on "60 Minutes."
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"You used an adjective, 'conservative.' That is, conservative is one who clings to something and does not want to see beyond that," Francis said.
"It is a suicidal attitude," he continued. "Because one thing is to take tradition into account, to consider situations from the past, but quite another is to be closed up inside a dogmatic box."
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