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Crisis for Pope Francis as top-level cardinals tell him: your synod could lead to the collapse of the church

1 posted on 10/12/2015 6:59:36 AM PDT by ebb tide
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There is no evil to the damage that can be done by a leftist.
And, this pope is a leftist.


2 posted on 10/12/2015 7:02:21 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Christ tells us in scriptures that the “church”, the body of Christ, the true believers will never die.

It is the Vatican itself that will be destroyed, not its congregants.


5 posted on 10/12/2015 7:06:33 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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That’s probably exactly what Francis had in mind. He and the Germans and the Argentine mafia are probably high-fiving each other even as we speak.


6 posted on 10/12/2015 7:11:09 AM PDT by livius
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Like Obama’s mission is the destruction of the United States of America,

Pope Francis’ mission is the destruction of the Roman Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole.

These two missions converge.


7 posted on 10/12/2015 7:12:56 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Federal Government is nothing but a welfare program with a dress code!)
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Somebody tell me again why Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) stepped down.


8 posted on 10/12/2015 7:14:24 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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He's the world's celebrity.

He will do whatever he wants.




He cares nothing of what Scripture says. Did you see the part during his recent visit where he mentioned the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

No?

Neither did I.

I heard a lot about "Climate Change", Marxism, and Social Justice, though.

13 posted on 10/12/2015 7:44:15 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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going down the route of ‘pastoral flexibility’ could lead to the Catholic Church falling apart in the same way as liberal Protestant denominations

Too late. That "pastoral" approach has been in full force since Vatican II. It's just that some are finally wising up to it.

14 posted on 10/12/2015 7:45:47 AM PDT by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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Note Damian Thompson's update appended to the article:

Update: As I write this (3.20pm Monday) various cardinals have said they didn’t sign the letter, some of them waiting several hours before distancing themselves from it. The latest report is that Erdö says he didn’t sign it. It’s extremely hard to get at the truth. ‘Not signing’ can mean a number of things, ranging from an outright false claim that a cardinal supported the letter to panicky backtracking by cardinals who did assent to it but are grasping at the technicality that they didn’t personally append their signature. But the damage to the synod is done.]

16 posted on 10/12/2015 8:17:30 AM PDT by marshmallow
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Also of note: “The Synod of Bishops” is a Vatican II/Paul VI novelty. Is it any wonder that it’s a failure?


18 posted on 10/12/2015 8:48:59 AM PDT by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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