Not true anti-pope.
Jesus excluded most.
Not exactly. Non-Christians are excluded, including those who wish to hold onto their love of sin while asking Christ to carry their penalty. The non repentant are excluded. The faithless are excluded. The heretics are excluded. We come to God on His terms, not ours.
I keep my doors open to anyone. But I will bow down or submit to a bunch of immoral savages.
Who is allowed communion in the Catholic Church?
Been divorced? (Or any other thing in a long list of EXCLUSIONS?)
So Francis. When Our Lord said that if someone does not listen to the Church we are to treat him as “a Gentile or tax collector” in Matt 18....what was that, exactly?
Seems that I remember this Pope excluding a very highly credentialed global warming skeptic from his climate summit. Must be there are times it’s OK to exclude.
Good stuff. Thank you.
I read this and think of that young beautiful woman Kate Steinle standing on a San Francisco pier with her father enjoying the view and being shot randomly without reason by an illegal alien who had been deported 5 times but had found refuge in the sanctuary city policy of San Francisco.
And it becomes clear that borders, walls, fortifications, rule of law, armies, patrols, law enforcement, jails and prisons and so on are all human constructs of exclusion. They are developed to give a chance that people might live in peace. Abandon all these constructs and Satan’s minions rule by default.
We have had in our history a rational immigration system, before 1965. We included many who were sincere and who sought a better life and who we as Americans were able at times to take in. But such a system was based on criteria for assimilation and points for skills and education. So we were inclusive and exclusive simultaneously.
We as Americans have been throughout our history an extremely charitable people who have had groups of missionaries and peace groups travel the world to help the poor and needy. So we make the effort to meet and greet the poor and advocate for their immigration to America if that is appropriate and available.
In the last several decades, our performance as Americans in immigration has become politicized. Immigrant groups are viewed as voters for the establishment party(s) recruiting them or as constituents that serve to provide power for certain districts.
America was good and can be good again.
Sounds like the Anglicans, who have reduced the “gospel” to exactly one, single, solitary word: “Inclusion.”
This is what happens when you elect a Pope who is a weirdo, with a shallow, cheap mind, no relevant education, and whose own diocese was/is a crumbling shambles.
The pope is pandering..., selling out Christians..hoping that he can keep the savages from attacking the vatican. It won’t work.
Jesus tells three parables which I can think of, off the top of my head. There may be more.
The third is the parable of the "Prodigal Son". In this parable, the wayward son must first return home and beg forgiveness of his father before he can be embraced. His father, no doubt, longs for his return but until the son says, "I have sinned....." and vows to return home and seek his father's mercy, his father can do nothing.
This highlights a critical point with which the Pope often plays fast and loose; the Church does not exclude us, we exclude ourselves. It is by our own decisions and actions that we are excluded. Just as the son voluntarily left his father's house for a life of debauchery, so we, too, turn our backs on God.
The Pope sometimes seems to hint or imply that all those who are estranged from the Church are the victims of Pharisaical judgmentalists who've shut the door in their faces. That is certainly not my experience of the Church as I have spent my life grievously assaulting the ears of confessors old and young in the sacrament of Reconciliation. Never have I been turned away by a "Pharisee" priest.
Where are.....who are these "Pharisees" of which he speaks? I've never seen them.
In attacking them chrstianity has opened a can of worms and invited these own attacks on itself.
Leftists are trying to deceive Christians by confusing Biblical Christian discernment of right and wrong/good and evil with God’s judgement of souls. They are confusing God’s condemnation of a soul to a Christian’s decision to reject people (liberals) who are pushing sin and/or evil behaviors in the church or to them as individuals in life.
They want Christians to be empty heads - ignorant of the Bible - and believe as they are told by liberals who name good, evil and evil, good. It’s deceit.
Of course Comrade Bergoglio is for inclusiveness, and against exclusiveness, he’s an Argentinian Marxist, for heavens sake. The breaking down of all “barriers” to a one world socialist system, the Agenda 2030 he pushed at the UN, is his goal, and the goal of all Marxists.
Breaking down borders, allowing Islamics to come flooding in, intent on imposing sharia law on their host countries.
Breaking down gender “barriers,” barriers to this Marxist Pope’s idea of a one world utopia, opening the flood gates to same sex perversion.
Breaking down capitalist barriers in countries like the USA, imposing redistribution of wealth.
One would have to be blind not to see what this commie pope is doing.