Posted on 01/20/2020 7:08:38 PM PST by ebb tide
About the only think he outright condemns, with no room for discernment, is captital punishment which Texas enforces.
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Does Francis consider Donald Trump to be the snake or the dragon?
During the 2016 presidential election, Bergoglio strongly implied Trump wasn’t a Christian (for his pledge to build a border wall, enforcing U.S. immigration laws).
Did the Pope mention abortion at all?
Maybe he could urge them to stop shuffling around homosexual predator priests within their dioceses.
This imposter is NO Pope of mine!!
I did not leave my Holy Catholic Church. Under the leadership of our present pope it left me.
Today I attend a Baptist Church. The Sunday sermons are okay and sometimes inspiring as was Mass. Our Wednesday bible study group is most excellent. We take the scriptures and analyze them and debate their meaning. The debate is intense with persons of great intellect. This did not happen in my former church.
I would welcome the day I could return to my Holy Catholic Church. I do not see this happening.
It should also be noted that certain congregations of Baptists, Methodists etc. have become as corrupt as the Church of Rome. One must choose wisely their congregation they attend.
Maybe it’s time for laypersons to start their own congregations that actually follow Christian doctrine.
What if the guy giving you advice from the Vatican is both a snake and a dragon?
great idea. But as soon as the diocese decides you’re not part of the church ... Toast. Then most Catholic people won’t go there
https://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-344.html
The (Catholic) Church is run by an apostate. Until such time as he is run out, along with his Communist SJW allies and fellow Homofascists, those that wish to worship God and follow Christian doctrine have little choice but to go outside. It is beyond outrageous, it is plain evil, that these Satanists, sex perverts, and anti-Christians have been allowed to run through and capture almost every Christian sect with little to no opposition.
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Pope urges bishops to propagandize their parishoners on political issues.
There. Fixed it.
Every bishop runs his diocese as his own little kingdom. For better or for worse. It’s not necessary to flee the pope and it’s impossible to flee the bishop.
How about encouraging discernment towards becoming a priest or deacon or religious?
Unfortunately this prick appoints the Bishops.
I know of a certain prelate that is known to frequent a bathhouse, good friend of his Hellishness.
Who will the next Pope be, with this anus appointing all the Cardinals?
Odd to me that it’s the conservatives arguing against married priests. I think of there are tons of men who might like to be priests without giving up marriage and children.
Flood the seminaries with normal guys and there won’t be as many fags. Without getting rid of the fags the problem will never end. Local seminary seems to be trying to actively weed out decent men.
Yes.
But:
In USA, the bishops decide who will become a new bishop. They give the pope a list. He chooses from the short list.
Cardinals. Another story
What the .....?
So if the Church wants to be a political organization, they should be taxed like one.
And what do we do with married priests who get divorced? What do we do with a married priest whose wife or son/daughter is virulently anti-Catholic or a criminal or an abortion advocate?
Everybody thinks that married priests are the simple solution without considering the unintended consequences. You not only need the commitment of the man himself but the family he is responsible for.
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