Posted on 09/21/2018 6:47:41 AM PDT by marshmallow
Hypocrites call out scandal to make themselves seem pure, the Pope said
While God’s holy church is made up of sinners, it also has its share of hypocrites who love to cry “scandal” to point out the failings of others and make themselves appear pure, Pope Francis said at morning Mass.
“The devil doesn’t have anything to do with repentant sinners because they look to God and say, ‘Lord, I’m a sinner. Help me,’ and the devil is impotent,” the Pope said during Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae on Thursday.
“But with the hypocrites he is strong,” Pope Francis said. “He is strong, and he uses them to destroy, to destroy people, destroy society, destroy the Church.”
The devil’s “battle horse is hypocrisy because he is a liar. He shows off as a powerful, handsome prince, but inside he’s an assassin,” the Pope said, according to the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
In his homily, Pope Francis looked at key figures discussed in both of the readings at the Mass: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 and Luke 7:36-50.
St Paul, in the first reading, and the woman who anoints Jesus’s feet in the Gospel reading both realise they are sinners, the Pope said, but they are moved by love for Jesus.
And Jesus, recognizing their love, “forgives, receives, is merciful – words we often forget when we speak ill of others,” he said. “Think about this: We must be merciful like Jesus and not condemn others.”
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There is no bigger "hypocrite" than the non-judgmental, judgmental pope.
Someone once said that you know the nature of a tree by its fruit.
I want him gone. Time to start praying him out.
With the amount of hubris in that statement I would think it came out of Obama’s mouth.
Ditto that.
There are several Bishops, Archbishops and Cardinals who need to follow.
+1
for a minute there I thought he was talking about Chrissy Balsey Ford, DiFi, and their shameless hypocrisy.
#FireFrancis
One running for Anti-Christ and the other running for False Prophet. Sounds about right.
“Someone once said that you know the nature of a tree by its fruit.”
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The pope is a fruit.
The ImPopester is really starting to get on my nerves.
Does he have no compassion for the lives wrecked by these horrible prelates?
I wish he would live by his own prescriptions.
One would have to be a fool or spiritual deceived and blind to remain in the Roman Catholic church. The whole organization is rotten from the head down.
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