And the fanatical headchoppers? they aren’t living in sin?
“37And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume, 38 and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet He would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching Him, that she is a sinner.”
I’m not insinuating that Pope Francis is Christ but if Christ is to be the example who are we to judge others that follow His example?
I am not Catholic, but if you have a couple living together outside of marriage, wouldn’t you WANT them to get married instead of continuing to just live together - especially if children are involved? I am not sure that would be considered “progressive”, as some are suggesting.
To LaSalette Blog: Bite me!
Why don’t they get away from all of that annulment nonsense? Saying that for some reason a marriage is “null and void.” I know a gal who was married for 15 years and had three kids from their marriage. Her husband left her and requested an annulment so he could remarry. She fought it and he withdrew because continuing would have been too expensive. Basically he was trying to say that their marriage was not real, which would have meant that she was living in sin. Give me a break.
Is it just a coincidence that the current Pontiff took the name Francis - after Saint Francis of Assisi - when the same saint was given a prophecy which enabled him to prophesy that, "...a man, not canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning, will endeavor to draw many into error and death.....some preachers will keep silence about the truth, an others will trample it under foot and deny it....for in those days Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor, but a destroyer."
This prophecy of an anti-pope seizing papal authority and the faithful remnant of the Church being subjected to persecution like never before in history has been spoken of by many seers.....As the Apostasy continues to spread, hatred for the Ten Commandments will intensify.
Ping!
“In marrying them he he kicked away one of the bulwark beliefs of the sex-obsessed hierarchy in the old church, the belief that sex outside marriage was a heinous and immoral act.”
Wow. Just think of all those pregnant, white veiled youngsters who got married at the altar all those years ago.
Look, there’s penance and I’m pretty sure they had to repent of their cohabitation.
I know I did. It’s amazing how many people are sinless and can cast doubts on others’ actions.
Yet the likes of Nancy Piglosi, Kennedy’s, and other abortionists still are welcomed with open arms.
It is very sad to see how this writer thinks. He presumes that the 20 couples who were married were all in a state of mortal sin, and the Pope was condoning that. I don’t see how the writer can logically come to that conclusion.
Secondly, papal HR tea-leaf readers would be better served by focusing their attention less on curial politics, and more on their own souls.
Finally, the fear-mongering regarding (former) Fr. Martin and his prophesy is very near to scandalous. For the record, “In 1965, Mr. Martin received a dispensation from all privileges and obligations deriving from his vows as a Jesuit and from priestly ordination’ (Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, 25 June 1997, Prot. N. 04300/65)”
So let us remember the promise Jesus made to St. Peter, that gates of hell will not prevail against His church.
Who’s to say that he didn’t require them to go to Confession before he’d marry them?
Marrying couples living in sin used to be a standard part of a parish priests job.
Most Catholic countries never really had good coverage of clergy in rural areas. The Philippines, for instance, was fairly typical, though it actually had better clergy coverage than usual (much better than most of Latin America).
A priest would normally ride a circuit across the parish visiting the various villages, performing all the necessary rites at each place. This included solemnizing “common law” marriages of the rural people.
It is rather odd for a Pope to be doing this.
I take the Groucho Marx approach to my Catholic faith:
“I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY Church THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.”
Which is to say, I don’t want to belong to a Church of sinners, but I am over-joyed to belong to a Church that is made up of sinners who are working to be saints.
If a couple is unwilling to comprehend the sacramental nature of marriage and to prepare themselves in such a way as to receive that sanctifying grace, then no, they should not be married.
Too long to read completely, but are they trying to say that Francis is the destroyer, or that the destroyer will usurp Francis?
‘Francis is trying to make the church more inclusive, to absorb those who have been driven away by right wing ideology bordering on the dictatorial...’
It is a religion. It is supposed t DICTATE you jackass!
Everything being published about this event is poppycock.
People should be in the state of grace when getting married, which means that all these couples should have been to confession. The Pope didn’t marry a bunch of people “living in sin.”
But even if they are not in the state of grace, the marriage is valid.
Malachi’s prophecy?
The problem with this article and line of thought is that using private revelation as an authority is a mistake because none of the private prophesies about the End Times need ever be fulfilled as they are contingent realities, and they are not to be accepted with Catholic Faith.
To many Catholics private interpretation of private revelations is substituted for the Sacred Deposit of Faith, whereas it more closely resembles the occult practice of divination.
The only test for a prophet is if their prophesy’s become true.
How many false prophet Popes has there been?
Just wondering.