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Pope Francis Just Showed He’s Not Afraid to Part With the American Right
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| Feb. 4, 2015
| Christopher J. Hale
Posted on 02/05/2015 5:16:26 AM PST by Gamecock
On Tuesday, Pope Francis declared that Salvadorean Archbishop Oscar Romero was martyred “in hatred of the faith” and not killed for simply political reasons. Francis’s decision came nearly 35 years after Romero was assassinated by a right-wing death squad while celebrating Mass on March 24, 1980. His announcement opens the door for Romero’s beatification, the final stop on the road to sainthood in the Catholic Church.
But the decision is not without controversy. Though the Vatican formally began the process to canonize Romero in 1997, it was blocked for years as Rome navigated a wider debate across the United States and global Catholic community about whether Romero was killed for defending the faith or for taking strong political stances against the Salvadorean government.
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Christopher Hale is a senior fellow at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and the co-founder of Millennial.
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posted on
02/05/2015 5:16:26 AM PST
by
Gamecock
To: Gamecock
And here we find
on this here thread that it was Benedict, not Francis, who unblocked the canonization process.
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posted on
02/05/2015 5:23:20 AM PST
by
Old Sarge
(Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
To: Gamecock
To: Gamecock
He’s Not Afraid to Part With the American Right AND they would be right to part with him - along with all his ilk!
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posted on
02/05/2015 5:40:28 AM PST
by
kinsman redeemer
(The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
To: Gamecock
Does the pope even consider right or left in American politics? I wouldn’t have thought so.
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posted on
02/05/2015 5:41:20 AM PST
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
To: Gamecock
I wan Benedict back.
This imposter is a Socialist.
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posted on
02/05/2015 5:48:56 AM PST
by
gaijin
To: Gamecock
No surprise. ...the Pharisees side with the Empire. Business is business. Past is prologue.
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posted on
02/05/2015 5:52:21 AM PST
by
dasboot
To: Irenic
Does the pope even consider right or left wrong
in American politics? I wouldn’t have thought so.doesn't seem to.
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posted on
02/05/2015 5:52:38 AM PST
by
showme_the_Glory
((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
To: Gamecock
Though the Vatican formally began the process to canonize Romero in 1997, it was blocked for years as Rome navigated a wider debate across the United States and global Catholic community about whether Romero was killed for defending the faith or for taking strong political stances against the Salvadorean government. But when were popes ever part of the American Right?
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posted on
02/05/2015 5:52:38 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: showme_the_Glory
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posted on
02/05/2015 5:56:01 AM PST
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
To: Alex Murphy
Our FRoman Catholic FRiends seem to think The Pope should be a card carrying member of the Tea Party.
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posted on
02/05/2015 6:04:13 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Cruch is a Naval line officer.)
Comment #12 Removed by Moderator
To: Gamecock
Pope Francis Just Showed He’s Not Afraid to Part With the American Right It took TIME this long to notice?
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posted on
02/05/2015 6:13:19 AM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
(You're either in or in the way.)
To: Gamecock
If this pope’s stances on issues doesn’t wake Catholics up then nothing will.
I understand most in the Catholic First crowd will do anything to defend ‘his highness’s’ honor.
“who am I to judge”.....Exactly!
To: Gamecock
More bible, less politics.
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posted on
02/05/2015 6:22:41 AM PST
by
javie
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: Gamecock
Francis is a freakin' communist.
This is clearly Satan's time.
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posted on
02/05/2015 8:01:32 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
To: Colonel_Flagg
I fully expect Francis to warmly embrace abortion as a Blessed Sacrament soon.
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posted on
02/05/2015 8:02:27 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
To: Gamecock
Oh, that’s just silly. Pathetically, narcissistically silly.
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posted on
02/05/2015 8:12:25 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Soak your toes in hydrogen peroxide.)
To: Gamecock
Most of them know better, that is clear by their reactions when the Catholic vote is brought up, that and immigration.
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posted on
02/05/2015 9:12:25 AM PST
by
ansel12
(Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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