Posted on 05/26/2015 4:28:21 PM PDT by 9thLife
Next it will be, "The Bishops refused to wipe their backsides for them".
Protestants are incapable of reason. You can quote me.
For private interpretation of Scripture to be the ultimate rule of faith, the Church has to be dismissed, or at least reduced to a powerless society.
It's no accident that following the Protestant Revolution, the process of religious disintegration passed through the rejection of church hierarchy, self-interpretation of Scripture and finally, Unitarianism.
This is why most Protestant religion threads here are attacks on the Church rather than a presentation of Protestant teaching. It's been more than 500 years of protest.
News flash: Catholics who aren't persuaded by "the Church teaches" aren't going to be any more persuaded by "the Bible says".
Hate to say it, but Pope Francis flung the door open and made it appear that homosexuals and homosexual "marriage" might very well be welcomed in the Catholic church. Some would argue that between Francis' statement and the lingering resentment towards the Catholic church for ignoring the scandal of Priests molesting young boys (and some young girls..) that Ireland just voted for "gay marriage" as a way to "send a message" to the Catholic Church.
I personally think that's bunk and not a logical connection. One doesn't reward behavior they don't want to see their Clergy doing by voting to make that same/similar behavior legal. That just doesn't wash.
I think what's really going on here is that the younger generations (those 30 and younger mostly..) have a much different world view towards sex and marriage than say my generation (50's plus) do.
Blame the liberal schools. Blame TV. Blame the Internet, blame whoever. Part of the blame does go to the Catholic Church specifically for Pope Francis' statements, and the failure of the church to forcefully and unapologetically stand for traditional marriage, between one man and one woman in the face of the evil that is now "gay marriage."
Finally, as a former Catholic it truly frightens me to see the Catholic Church flailing around like this. If the Catholic Church falls (and it's the single biggest Christian denomination in the country) then I don't see how we as a country turn the evil tide of the radical, fascist homosexual agenda back and reclaim the moral high ground.
The Catholic Church needs to regain it's footing, fight for the moral high-ground by calling evil exactly what it is, and re-claim moral relevance. Why the Catholic Church? Because no other Christian denomination is big enough.
Frankly, I wonder how many times my dear, dead Irish grandmother voted.
I suspect it was more than once!
It is certainly a defeat for civilization.
Doesn’t matter - humanity’s not gonna be around much longer, anyway.
When Ireland is invaded by the Muslims everything will even out as far as the queers and the head choppings.
Millions were spent in Ireland by the US gay lobby. An American millionaire gave 10 million and an American organization of gay promoters gave 8 million. I heard that on EWTN Radio after the lunch hour. I hope I am giving you the correct number of millions, as I recall.
What is happening here in the perversion the US culture is being exported around the world and certainly they are all after the Church of Rome. Obama is courting Pope Francis, who claims he has not watched TV in years and has always read only one Leftist newspaper.
You can imagine what a sitting duck our pope is for these moneyed sources with silver tongues and influence.
An interesting point you make there, about Parolin, and about who might stand and who might fall, being among the least expected.
What the hell happened to Ireland?
Call me the denomination cop, but the Catholic Church is not a “denomination”. Never has been, never will be. Rather, she is Christ’s Church. In her, He prayed for unity and one mind. He did not pray for unity with heretics.
The denominations are protestants who left the Catholic Church. Protestants left the Catholic Church, protesting the Church, and now represent the many different forms of protest to the Church.
I will be as accepting of homosexuals as I have always been.
Maybe they helped provide more guidance for your life.
It’s full of Irish people.
America is also being subverted by the same forces that have destroyed Irish religion and tradition.
God save us from the Fiend.
A mighty backlash is on the horizon.
This is a war
Evil is winning
Time for Good to step up.
Mine, too, and she left the Auld Sod when she was three years old, 100 years ago!
There was a time when this would have provoked a war, with Catholic armies marching into a country to end the heresy. Alas, not today
It chose poorly.
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