Posted on 08/22/2014 6:25:04 AM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis will celebrate a Mass next August to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, an Argentine cardinal has revealed.
Speaking at the Armenian Catholic cathedral in Buenos Aires, Cardinal Mario Poli said that the Pontiff will celebrate the commemorative Mass in St. Peter’s basilica. The date for the Mass has not yet been announced.
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I am not Catholic, so I rarely comment on Pope Francis.
However, I think that it is very commendable that he is commemorating the Armenian Genocide.
We KNOW who the perps were, and a century later, they are doing the very same thing to Christians in that area of the world.
And, unfortunately, the world is reacting the very same way.
More than one million innocents slaughtered in most gruesome ways and unmentioned for a century, all because of politically correct reasons.
Now, one hundred years later, the same barbarians are starting to do it again, but hopefully, this time, the West will react differently.
Infidels are getting one more chance to get things right.
Erdogan won’t be happy.
GOOD!
They’ve been in denial for 100 years!
Good for you.
That doesn't stop many people. I have a list of the pope-bashers. They bash the leader of 1.6 billion Catholics. WHY would anyone do that? I wouldn't DREAM of bashing the leaders of any Christian faith. Why would I?
Maybe if he wasn’t a socialist....
Of course I wouldn’t “bash” any Christian leaders.
However, if any leader says something that goes against Scripture, or conservative principles, or common sense (like Gene Robinson’s recent article about Ferguson) I believe we all have a right to disagree with it.
I am not Episcopalian either, but I sure do disagree with Gene Robinson! I don’t “bash” him though.
Disagreeing is OK. Bashing isn’t.
I highly recommend this book about the Armenian genocide, and the murder arson of Greek Smyrna.
Well, son, I think you've GOT it. :o)
I SUPPOSE the "disagreeing" can be touchy. I have a tendency, sometimes, to be able to phrase my disagreement in such a way that AL-MOST is bashing. :o) It's a skill, innit?
I do try to be careful, oh OFTEN!
Our good Lord lets EVEN socialists live in this world.
There are many Christian socialists.
The U.S.S.R. was peopled by good Russian Orthodox Christians.
It’s a fine line, to be sure.
But to some, just DISAGREEING is interpreted as “BASHING”.
For example, if the Christian Leader says something questionable about economics, which strays into a marxist worldview, or seems tainted with Liberation Theology, and a FReeper calls him on it, is that BASHING?
Name-calling (commie, pinko, idiot,) is bashing, of course! }:-)
Funny, I now keep a list of the Catholic-bashers on FR so that I don’t comment to them on ANY thread. Sad but I felt I had to do that for my own sanity. Some of them are inordinately creepy.
Besides the "pope-basher" list, I also have an "a-hole" list. It's a LOT longer and the folks on that list are also on my "ignore" list.
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do to stay sane and not get dragged into a fracas that sends The Robinson Factor and the Religious Moderator onto your message site.:o)
Oddly enough, the last time I got dragged into a horrible situation was when I clicked on what I thought was a harmless article: Mormon food. I'm a devout foodie and went onto it and before I knew it I was devoured whole! My naivete on religious subjects here knows no bounds.
So, for you it’s okay if he routinely violates the eighth, ninth and tenth Commandments?
The tenth prohibits covetousness, which however, the Pope in his socialist mindset expressly endorses from his sense of liberation theology brought along with him from Argentina.
This lends to his complicity in violating the ninth by encouraging false witness in his direct support of the “gimme” mentality that expands within our own society by the day.
Furthermore, given the nature of his support for direct violation of tenth and ninth Commandments, it is very difficult not to see his complicity in breaking “Do not steal” given his attitude concerning those others.
IMHO, the Pope has some explaining to do.
Wrt, 100 year anniversaries, I’m wondering why Francis didn’t mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Pope Saint Pius X a couple of days ago, but made a point of marking the 36th anniversary of Paul VI’s death.
Maybe it’s because Pius X was anti-Modernist.
Maybe this is why: http://www.romereports.com/pg157210-vatican-marks-centennial-of-pius-x-s-death-with-day-of-study-on-saintly-pope-en
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