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Pope Francis and Caiaphas: A Tale of Two High Priests
The Stream ^ | John Zmirak

Posted on 03/31/2024 11:16:48 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN

One thing we know about Pope Francis: He has an unhealthy obsession with Judas. In his private apartments, a crude painting hangs which depicts the risen Jesus ministering to Judas’s body after his suicide. Francis has repeatedly mused that Judas might have been saved — in support of the suggestion that no one is finally damned. That’s a heresy the early Church condemned for turning the drama of our salvation into a farce with a forced happy ending.

You might think Francis is simply a little “too merciful.” Read my three-part analysis of the dark, perverse motivations that more likely lie behind his defense of the one human being whom the Church has always regarded as doomed — based on the words of Jesus.

Not Judas, But Caiaphas Don’t expect here an essay comparing Francis to Judas, though. There’s a much closer parallel in salvation history: the high priest Caiaphas. No, not just because both he and the pope have served as high priests of the one true religion on earth; that would work with any pope. (So we Catholics believe, calling the bishop of Rome “pontifex maximus.”)

What called to mind Caiaphas in particular was a recent papal statement that Lifesitenews covered in detail, in which Francis tore into Christians who refused the COVID vaccine — especially those of us who rejected it as immoral because it relies on DNA from a kidney cut out of a baby being aborted, most likely while she was still alive, since otherwise such tissue is useless. (Yes, other medications depend on such research. That’s deplorable as well and we should avoid them. But none of those vaccines or medications have been forced on people by the government and their employers.)

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Not surprisingly many call Bergoglio the usurper on the throne.
1 posted on 03/31/2024 11:16:48 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN
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To: KierkegaardMAN

Another thing we know about that POS… he’s NOT Pope. Invalid “partial” resignation leads to invalid “election”, and the result is a tool of the devil squatting in the seat.


2 posted on 03/31/2024 12:58:20 PM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: KierkegaardMAN

The pope is a dope.


3 posted on 03/31/2024 1:56:28 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

You’ve been mentioned


4 posted on 03/31/2024 1:58:40 PM PDT by Lazamataz (We are so screwed. We are so screwed. We are so screwed. We are so screwed. We are so screwed.)
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