[NYer]

Ping!

[GeronL]

"the Holy Spirit is the source of diversity in the church. This diversity is very rich and beautiful. But then the same Holy Spirit creates unity. And in this way the church is one in diversity. To use a beautiful Gospel phrase that I love very much, reconciled diversity" is the gift of the Holy Spirit.

What does that mean? Freeper Catholics with disgronificators should explain this. :p

[Alex Murphy]

His voice breaking with emotion, Giovanni Traettino, a Pentecostal pastor in southern Italy and longtime friend of Pope Francis, welcomed the pope, "my beloved brother," to his partially built church in Caserta....Pope Francis told the Pentecostals that "the Holy Spirit is the source of diversity in the church. This diversity is very rich and beautiful. But then the same Holy Spirit creates unity. And in this way the church is one in diversity. To use a beautiful Gospel phrase that I love very much, reconciled diversity" is the gift of the Holy Spirit.

In addition to the visit, the pope fulfilled one specific request of the Italian evangelical community by recognizing the complicity of some Catholics in the fascist-era persecution of Italian Pentecostals and evangelicals.

"Among those who persecuted and denounced the Pentecostals, almost as if they were crazies who would ruin the race, there were some Catholics. As the pastor of the Catholics, I ask forgiveness for those Catholic brothers and sisters who did not understand and were tempted by the devil," Italian news agencies quoted the pope as saying.

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[BlatherNaut]

If he had gone to the Pentecostals that day, without celebrating the feast with Catholics, "the newspaper headlines would have been 'On the patron feast of Caserta, the pope visits Protestants,'" he said. So, he asked an official in the Vatican Secretariat of State to help organize the Mass "to remove this noose from around my neck."

If that is how he truly feels, perhaps he would be happier joining the Pentecostals.