Posted on 12/02/2014 7:32:31 PM PST by ebb tide
I will repeat what I have stated before. Too many people found those who disagreed with previous Popes to be lacking in faith and understanding. They were judged to be lacking and were piously told to get with the program.
Now those same judges find themselves disagreeing with this Pope. But now, of course, it is the Pope who lacks proper faith and understanding.
Those who judged everyday Catholics before, judge the Pope now. They are, then, unwilling to be judged by the same measure as they previously judged others.
A grave error.
If you feel that this Pope has nothing to teach you and that he is all wrong and you are all right, there is nothing any of the rest of us can do but pray for your soul.
100% agree
So there is safety in numbers? Haha you know Mitch there won’t be any hiding in the choir when the day of the Lord comes!
"Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."
-St. Athanasius
When the shepherd is struck, the sheep are scattered.
Those are the foundation structure of the Christian faith, no matter what church you attend.
So much falsehood in such a short statement. ''All religions share these little groups"...Apparently in Francis's mind it's the religions, all the religions together, against the so-called fundamentalists from each group. Again he displays the fundamentally anti-Catholic, modernist relativism that lives rent-free under his zucchetto.
And more specifically, he is comparing whatever Christian fundamentalists he has in mind (like the author I assume he means Traditional Catholics, but who really knows what Francis is babbling about), to Islamic fundies. How many Traditional Catholics are there? No matter how you choose to measure it, there aren't many, and I've never heard of them committing some act of violence. Islamic fundamentalists, on the other hand, number in the tens of millions and engage in acts of terror, murder, slaugher, mayhem, slave trade, and destruction on a daily basis, all around the world.
But we're all the same apparently. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and an SSPX priest, what's the difference?
A fundamentalist to a modern radical Jesuit, is any Christian who disagrees with his liberal, global world view. He’s a dilly.
Let’s forget about what you, the author, or I think of this or previous Popes.
Just take a look at the writings of pre-conciliar Popes vs post-conciliar Popes.
Imagine a debate on doctrine between Francis and Pope St Pius X.
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