Posted on 01/15/2015 7:34:11 PM PST by ebb tide
I’ve never heard it said that he does that well.
No Pope helped the Nazis.
Actually man and woman made. He had a mama and a papa.
I'm liking this sucker less and less every day.
Neither is diplomacy.
But please understand that it's papal idiocy and error which makes Infallibility so important, for it merely makes sure that erroneous papal opinions (and he's got a heapin' helpin' of them) will not become binding as part of universal doctrine.
It works only negatively. This is pretty satisfactorily explained by the following video from the Bad Catholics Bingo Hall (YouTube) which shows a curious connection between papal error and myocardial infarction.
(For your viewing pleasure. I will not mind of you laugh out loud.)
People do sadly forget what blessings a Judeo-Christian worldview has demonstrated in the world.
Perfectly, no, no, heavens no. Lots of balls dropped. However people have a funny way of appealing to the bible, not to the Bhagavad Gita, when pointing out the sort of conduct that a particular group of Christians has fallen short of.
Under current law, one must be a Cardinal under the age of 80 in order to vote in the election.
I suppose the Catholic theology on this could be fairly viewed that way, i.e. the Pope is only infallible when [list of conditions to be retrospectively applied].
But at least, most past popes haven’t been as garrulous as this one, knowing that the church culture is such as to take anything they might say as potential infallibility (ex cathedra) fodder. This one opines as openly, publicly, and freely as Rush Limbaugh (and not always as sensibly).
As an evangelical I might tweak that this is the risk you take when you say you can keep on appending the bible.
So I can't post an unorthodox opinion without being labeled a bigot?
When did this become a liberal forum?
Even without that, to have the pastor of the biggest single church on earth start yacking off this way is not a recipe for deliberate, wise discussion. Not yet determined technically infallible, but jolly well close to it, with how close in the eye of the beholder.
If someone asked me to take Peter’s post, I’d run away screaming.
Well, let’s see, I know of some Stanford University Cardinals who are not Catholic. Does that count?
Jeez, I’m supposed to respect and embrace a guy who falls for this crap? Get another pope, this one sucks.
Obviously then, they are not "well taught" and one might be able to say that for generations "popes" haven't been seeing to it that enough were well enough taught.
In comparison, even accounting for the more liberal "Protestant" denominations, and the afro-Baptists who will seemingly always (or at least have been for the last 50 years or more) voting 'Rat Party, along with some other lesser numbers of statistical outliers (whom self-identify as other-than RC Christian) --- the rest of the so-called "Protestants" (whom more than a few 'Catholics' on these pages say are 'ignorant' or not as smart as 'Catholics') still refuse to vote for the Godless Party, and do so even more increasingly, here of late...
When immigrants from Mexico whom become naturalized citizens are examined for voting patterns -- those who still identify themselves as 'Catholic' are much more likely to vote for the Wrong Party than those who have become Evangelical.
SO -- without a singular 'vicar of Christ', when it comes to voting habits, those who are more independently on their own, fair better than Roman Catholics, from conservative perspective.
Why is that?
All this bragging about 'teaching authority' and the like -- what good is it to ME -- to a American, non-denominational Christian?
It's only somewhat better in end result then the run-of-the-mill godless (among Americans).
A lesser enemy within, but still approx. 50% ENEMY of my nation!
Then again, going back to a hundred years and more ago --- those of the Vatican (those in authority in the RCC) did not hide their own dim view of the United States and it Constitutional Republican form of government.
Polish and spin doctor that one, sister.
He must be part of the popular Argentine Socialists.
It's a maddening story: good doctrine, bad discipline.
CORRUPTIO OPTIMI PESSIMA.
No, we haven't been well-taught our own doctrines. I have a little part of the teaching, being a member of our parish RCIA teaching team (adult education for our converts) and I see cradle-Catholics, lifetime Catholics, poorly educated and needing remedial Catholicism 101 and not even knowing they need it.
There's some Cardinals out there (e.g. Walter Kasper or, closer to home, Donald Wuerl the disgraceful Archbishop of Washington) who, if they were my catechumens, I would not recommend as eligible for admission to the Sacraments because of their refusal of basic core doctrines.
As for Catholic voting behavior, it has for the last 5 Presidential races (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012) been within 1%-2% the exact same as the U.S. electorate taken as a whole.
Now I consider that shameful. Where is the salt? Where is the light? Who can say we have not just been swallowed up and assimilated into this corrupt American political culture?
It is shameful that Catholics vote like Americans as a whole. But that does not make us, 23% of the American electorate, uniquely responsible for the bad outcomes.
My good friend --- really good friend --- who is the head of our local Baptist "Christian Life Commission" (political-social responsibility) and a great Pro-Life and Religious Liberty ally, mourns similarly over the Bapists. They vote well when they vote. but WELL over 50% of them don't vote. If they did, American politics would be transformed. Don't you think?
Plenty of sin and blame to go around. "Mea culpa," and I've been taught to say.
Let's pray for each other.
Wow - you’re just a jerk.
Well said.
Francis is a big blot in the Jesuit’s fame for scholarship and scientific knowledge. Sometimes it seems to me that he acts as a clone of Obama, others he rather seems to be another Biden; the more he speaks the more he makes the ridicule.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.