Posted on 10/19/2014 9:38:43 PM PDT by detective
Pope Francis has closed an assembly of Catholic bishops that revealed deep divisions on how to respond to homosexuality and divorce, saying on Sunday the Church should not be afraid of change and new challenges.
Francis, who has said he wants a more merciful and less rigid Church, made his comments in a sermon to some 70,000 people in St. Peter's Square for the ceremonial closing of a two-week assembly, known as a synod.
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Agreed. I’m not even a Catholic; yet, I was hopeful the new Pope would lead the church better than others in the past. Now, I am totally dismayed at what comes from the Vatican.
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What do you think?
The one I read said they were ordained.
“I have to say it
How anyone can stay Roman Catholic is beyond me.”
The Catholic Church offers the teachings of Jesus Christ plus a rich 2000 year tradition. When you join a
Catholic parish you get to enjoy the company of truly good, loving, moral, family oriented people. The effect is unbelievably positive and life affirming.
The hierarchy of the Catholic Church has been infiltrated by a small network of evil people. The live a corrupt, immoral lifestyle. They take money from good, faithful Catholics to fund their immoral lives and causes. They try to subvert and sabotage holy, Catholic teaching.
Most Catholics never come into contact with these people. But they are continually covered in the MSM and portrayed as representing Catholics.
So your faith is contingent upon the actions of other men?
not by any evidence it has ever shown, it hasn’t
What ya lookin for..........Da Spanish Inquisition? ; )
I’ve always kind of felt that saying is completely misinterpreted. I never used to think about it, but as I get older I think it should only refer to where a person spends their afterlife.
The pope recently spoke out against ISIS beheading children in Iraq. — “Who is he to judge?”
We make moral judgments all the time. I was listening to American Family Radio recently (to people a lot smarter than myself) and this subject was discussed. “Judge not, lest ye be judged” is being used to stop all debate on any subject related to morality. They talked about how it is used out of context. The proper context is telling us not to be hypocrites. If a man is having an affair with a married woman, he shouldn’t make judgments about another man doing it.
Matthew 7
1Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
Translation: God is always adjusting to new truths that replace old obsolete truths when we humans find the old truths inconvenient and/or boring.
What about Jesus saying to the Apostles "whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven"??
Have to continue later....going to dentist.
You have a chance to get to heaven because you've been baptized a Christian, but not sure that Jesus really likes His MOTHER being dissed so much.
cannibalism is forbidden
Put up big signs "Come in and Eat Jesus Today" and see what kind of weirdo's come in.
The Pope should know better, God’s word says there is nothing new under the sun and God’s positions are pretty clear and well stated in His Word.
The Pope I fear is getting ready to give the Catholic church a full blown case of modernization aka liberalism which will cause terrible chasm in their church.
The Actual Synod has been almost totally cannibalized by the Media Synod.
That in mind, the rhetorical "mise-en-scène" which determines the meaning of vague phrases like "new things' seems capable of making those meanings shift like smoke and mirrors.
Pope Francis must know that: he's not such a fool not to know.
I agree with Cardinak Burke that Pope Francis' careful one-the-one-hand, on-the-other without actually taking a stand, perfectly exemplified in his closing homily, is capable of doing much damage.
The Enemy knows he's not going to get a doctrinal change --- that's impossible --- but he doesn't need it. All he needs is another decade of evasion, equivocation and confusion.
That worries me.
These statements are continually spun by the MSM to assume the promotion of homosexuality within the church.
There have been no clear, concise messages of encouragement and support to the millions of faithful Catholic families in this so called Synod on the Family. There has just been weird, murky double talk.
The fact that the Pope appears to be saying that homosexuality is a “new thing” is very disturbing.
I am becoming more and more concerned for our one true church. The strong beliefs that the Son of God willingly died for are being replaced by slimy, enticements to prevarication and evil.
OMG!!! Better tell that to JESUS since that’s what HE said!!!!! Some of you people are really something!! You SAY you are Bible based, but you don’t do what JESUS TOLD YOU TO DO IN THE BIBLE!!!!!!
Jesus didn’t tell me to eat a cracker and say I am eating HIM or drink purple drank and say I am drinking him.
I guess Fellatio on Jesus is coming too
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