Posted on 11/24/2016 2:09:12 PM PST by marshmallow
November 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – After months of successful pro-family marches protesting an attempt to amend the constitution to create homosexual “marriage,” Pope Francis’ new apostolic nuncio to Mexico has come with a perplexing message for Mexicans: Don’t march, but rather enter into “dialog” over the gay agenda.
Archbishop Franco Coppola, a career diplomat with the Holy See who has served as nuncio to several African countries, arrived in Mexico on September 29. He soon began commenting on the struggle underway in the country over a proposed set of reforms by Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto to amend the constitution to permit “gay marriage” and adoption and to impose homosexual sex-ed throughout the country’s schools.
In a press conference on November 8, Coppola was asked about an upcoming vote on the president’s proposals. The nuncio said nothing about the Catholic Church’s teachings condemning homosexual behavior and homosexual “marriage” legislation, but answered, “I don’t come here with the solution, because it wouldn’t be respectful of Mexico. My opinion is that Mexicans, instead of confronting each other, of making proclamations, or carrying out marches, have to sit down at a table and talk to each other to understand all of the implications that certain measures have.”
After noting that there are “many things” in the president’s proposed reforms, Coppola told the press, “There are some things that in my opinion can easily be accepted, and there are others upon which we must reflect in order to understand all of the implications.”
Asked by a reporter what parts of the president’s bill need further reflection, Coppola refused to elaborate. “I have to be in my place, and my place as nuncio is not to be a mediator,” he replied, adding that Mexico “is not a country that needs mediators,” but has a government......
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The Pope may well be the anti-Christ.
Bring back Benedict
The pope is too far into his Argentinian socialist/communist ideology-it is a bad idea to lecture Latinos about homosexuality-I’m of Latino ancestry and I can assure you that “lifestyle” is not accepted in Mexico, or most places south of there-homosexuals of both genders are not approved of even by family-and are widely ridiculed in the evening novelas-I’m bilingual English/Spanish, sometimes watch the narco-mafia adults- only novelas-even the ones with a female mafia boss in the lead role are intolerant of lesbians and male homosexuals. Pretty bad when we ordinary Catholics are apparently paying more attention to what the bible says than the pope is...
“Bring back Benedict”
From your keyboard to God’s ears-I’m convinced pope Frank is apostate...
“...and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.”
“...and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.”
“...and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.”
“...and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.”
“...and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.”
“Bergoglio and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against It.”
A heretic pope does not make the Holy Catholic Church.
An ecumenical writer (in a good sense, not a bad one) helped me understand that the bulk of the original Christian martyrs were we laity not clergy.
In the early church, the clergy turned astray and laity refused to follow, sometimes for a hundred years. That laity that refused to follow, that held the true faith, became our first martyrs often withstanding the cruelty of the church that had gone astray.
I guess the marchers have done their discerning. I’ve already done mine. It is so harsh to say “don’t march” . . . so black and white.
Am I one of the few who noticed that almost all the so-called Catholic priests who were pedophiles abused only boys? The priesthood was infiltrated by queer faggots starting in the 1960s. Those queer faggots seem to be in charge.
Can a Pope be impeached?
“the original Christian martyrs were we laity”
I went to a Catholic university-the 1st time I heard that discussed in depth was in a class lecture concerning the role religion plays in psychology-it was eye opening-but I’m sure a few hundred years ago, some would have called it heresy-the professor who taught the class was a Jesuit priest-a thinker and questioner-hard to believe a socialist idealogue like Francis is also a Jesuit...
If we go back fifty years, I think the Jesuits were often those called Liberation Theologist Priests in South America. I could be wrong, but I think the Jesuit trained priests were most susceptible to that perversion of the gospel message.
He may just as well say stop marching against Satan, instead, practice dialog with Satan.
In South America that could very well be/have been true-the only way clergy survives execution in socialist Latin American countries is to parrot the Liberation theology/Socialist line of the government-after awhile, it probably becomes as much belief as survival strategy-that is what is wrong with pope Francis. My Jesuit professor was in no way a commie or socialist-but then this isn’t Argentina...
The South American liberation theology movement was before the government of that region became socialist. In fact, the entry of liberation theology went hand-in-hand with the leftist power groups that took over oligarchic government in the region.
The left used Christianity as the entry to the culture of the local people with the help of various churches, not just the catholics.
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