Posted on 10/18/2018 6:00:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Pope Francis returned to one of his favorite topics this week, preaching against Christians who are “rigid” and resistant to change.
In his homily at morning Mass at his Santa Marta residence in the Vatican on Tuesday, the pope compared modern Christians hung up on doctrine, morals, or the liturgy with the “hypocritical” Pharisees and doctors of the law of Jesus’ time
People followed Jesus because he was “attractive, touched hearts, made himself loved,” Francis said, unlike the Pharisees who scrutinized everything “under a magnifying glass.”
*snip*
The pope, in fact, gave a series of homilies sharply criticizing those who “accuse” others, particularly bishops, of wrongdoing, comparing them to Satan and his tactics.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal nuncio who released a bombshell report in late August accusing high-ranking prelates, including the pope, of mishandling the sex abuse crisis, took the pope’s words as aimed at himself.
Pope Francis “has compared his silence to that of Jesus in Nazareth and before Pilate, and compared me to the great accuser, Satan, who sows scandal and division in the Church — though without ever uttering my name,” the archbishop wrote in a recent 4-page statement.
“If he had said: ‘Viganò lied,’ he would have challenged my credibility while trying to affirm his own,” he continued. “Instead, he put in place a subtle slander against me — slander being an offense he has often compared to the gravity of murder. Indeed, he did it repeatedly, in the context of the celebration of the most Holy Sacrament, the Eucharist, where he runs no risk of being challenged by journalists.”
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If anyone resembles the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, it’s this charlatan
The slimeball faux Pope speaketh.
Yeah, I guess we need to be more tolerant of priests who boink young men and a pope who uses his position to advance a leftist political agenda. < / sarcasm >
The most satanic Pope ever.
The homosexual so-called pope.
I think I denounce what he is doing to my church!
These are not the droids you are looking for....
> People followed Jesus because he was “attractive, touched hearts, made himself loved...” <
Really??? The Pope seems to think people followed Jesus mainly because he was a public relations genius. His message evidently played no part.
Benedict XVI, it’s past time for you to say “I’m feeling much better. Thanks for the help Francis. I’ll be taking over now.”
(I’m dreaming, I know.)
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” ~Matthew 5:17
Hi.
Could another schism occur in the Church?
5.56mm
God's character is absolute and unchanging and Christian morality is based on God's moral character, so it is absolute and unchanging. God always and forever hates the evil and loves the good.
criticizing those who “accuse” others, particularly bishops,
Can anyone still doubt that he's part of that circle?
I guess the only rigidity this pope likes is among his gay fans.
American Catholics — WTH are you tolerating?
Just remember those cites who so lovingly embraced such moral flexibility in the past, that the Lord himself came down to peronally investigate it with 2 angels and destroyed them. Those cities were formerly called Sodom & Gomorrah.
I get the caution about the Pharisees, but in the context of the current goings on and behaviors by this Pope, a passage from the New Testament comes to mind. It had something to do with millstones.
“Now he tells me.” ~ Martin Luther
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