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Francis: “The Church Is Not a Football Team in Search of Fans”
Vatican Insider ^ | November 18, 2016 | Andrea Tornielli

Posted on 11/19/2016 1:31:20 AM PST by BlessedBeGod

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1 posted on 11/19/2016 1:31:20 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
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To: BlessedBeGod

Obviously not. Including it’s own Fans.
Commie Twit.
Got to a way to get rid of this guy, so Obama can teach him to play golf.


2 posted on 11/19/2016 1:58:37 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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I think this public spat could indicate there may be a political movement among the College of Cardinals to “encourage” Pope Francis to retire.


3 posted on 11/19/2016 2:11:37 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: BlessedBeGod
?

Maybe, just maybe, Christ's church is those who seek His salvation?

"Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven."

Matthew 10:32


4 posted on 11/19/2016 3:23:29 AM PST 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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To: BlessedBeGod

Why not just answer the five yes/no questions?

Why just talking around the questions and not answering them? When can we put the issues to rest with simple yes/no answers?


5 posted on 11/19/2016 3:26:04 AM PST by olezip
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To: RayChuang88

I Pray your right.


6 posted on 11/19/2016 3:29:29 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: BlessedBeGod

So, he’s not only a socialist but also a relativist.


7 posted on 11/19/2016 3:48:21 AM PST by circlecity
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To: BlessedBeGod

John Paul II didn’t look for fans.He made it crystal clear that “the flock” must bend to the Church,not the other way around and that,in turn,the Church must bend to His will.


8 posted on 11/19/2016 4:22:23 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: SkyPilot

STACKING HIS SUCCESSORS IN HIS IMAGE

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/18/world/europe/pope-francis-cardinals-shape-church.html


9 posted on 11/19/2016 4:23:08 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: RayChuang88

Ssshh. you aren’t allowed to use the term Political when it comes to the Catholic Church. It is all just about Faith..or some such thing. Politics couldn’t possibly be involved..so I was told over and over and over again on this site.

Oh, and you need not call them Cardinals to give weight to the actions. They are Bishops, after all. So let history who is recording this event call them 4 Bishops.


10 posted on 11/19/2016 4:50:01 AM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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To: BlessedBeGod

That’s exactly what it is.


11 posted on 11/19/2016 4:51:20 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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“The Church Is Not a Football Team in Search of Fans”

Regardless of what other points are made here (I'm not Catholic), I had great respect for some recent popes who stood by the rightness of God's word and saw no reason to modernize to fit the whims of societal norms.

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow," announced the writer of Hebrews. He is the essence of "old school" because His righteousness is unchanging. When the church protects the unborn or stands opposed to homosexual marriage, it does so not out of bigotry but out of consistency with the teachings of Scripture.

What is right in the eyes of God is not up for constant debate and revision. It is a truth that will forever be true regardless of what the pop culture demands. If it means people walk away from the church in disgust, they can comfort themselves with the knowledge that crowds of people walked out on Jesus too. Jesus was not in search of a fan base but in search of those who wanted a correct spiritual relationship with Him.

12 posted on 11/19/2016 4:57:33 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: olezip
His reasoning, if I can call it that, reminds me of some feminist "philosophers" who see clear, logical, linear thinking as being in itself oppressive, a male construct.
13 posted on 11/19/2016 5:01:59 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints." 1 Cor 14:33)
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To: BlessedBeGod
"The Church is the Gospel, it is the work of Jesus Christ. It is not a journey of ideas or an instrument for confirming these ideas."

Then what use is scripture or tradition?:

14 posted on 11/19/2016 5:45:27 AM PST by circlecity
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To: BlessedBeGod

The wolf is definitely emerging from his sheep’s clothing.


15 posted on 11/19/2016 5:46:07 AM PST by circlecity
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To: BlessedBeGod

Seems this “pope” and Goodell have something in common: Incompetence.


16 posted on 11/19/2016 5:46:50 AM PST by CodeToad (Ding Dong, the Bitch is Dead!!!)
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To: BlessedBeGod
“I’m not losing any sleep over it. I am continuing along the path of those who preceded me, I am following in the footsteps of the Council.

All Vatican II "Council" Catholics note this and note this well.

17 posted on 11/19/2016 5:55:37 AM PST by piusv (Pray for a return to the pre-Vatican II (Catholic) Faith)
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To: BlessedBeGod

A stopped clock.


18 posted on 11/19/2016 6:33:49 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: RayChuang88
I think this public spat could indicate there may be a political movement among the College of Cardinals to “encourage” Pope Francis to retire.

Why would they?

They elected him.

19 posted on 11/19/2016 6:35:34 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: BlessedBeGod

Francis = Far left radical Jesuit


20 posted on 11/19/2016 6:50:37 AM PST by EC Washington
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