Posted on 09/24/2015 8:35:27 AM PDT by xzins
An Iranian Ayatollah would have said the same. The Pope is an irrelevant repeater of socialist lies of others, just like the RINOs.
You are welcome! Here is a link to a table I put together with word counts from all of the politicians participating in the CNN Debate:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3338310/posts?page=30#30
During his historic speech at a joint meeting of Congress
Historic indeed....
course not, like many socialist Catholics up in the north east they would rather follow their true religion of socialism than actually follow their Bible.
Catholics I have talked to said he did himself no favors and is hurting their religion.
What a contrast to true leaders of the Church and the World: John Paul II and Benedict. Of course, the same mob that is enthralled with this guy never had a good word for either one of them.
To say that I am deeply and profoundly disappointed is a gross understatement.
The Church has survived “disappointing” popes in the past. I am confident, the Lord tarrying, that She will survive this one.
But I fear it will take decades to bring order back to his chaos: consider how long it took for the Church to recover from Leo X.
I pray for the soul of Archbishop Lefebrve when I say my prayers. I attend a regular parish, but I understand he was trying to save the Church.
Just listened to an NYC radio host telling the Pope to start the redistribution at the Vatican - “Tear down that wall!”
I thought JPII was inconsequential in his later years, never matching the stature & prestige he enjoyed during the standoff with communism. This guy came out of the gate determined to do nothing at all; did he say anything that wouldn’t have come out of the mouth of any religious leader (of any faith)?
That’s right; they were leaders of the One True Faith, while this guy wants to be the leader of the world (as long as nobody is offended or hurt). He doesn’t seem to believe abortion is murder, that Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed by God because of their rampant homosexuality, that Jesus condemned divorce, or that Hell exists.
I'm not quite ready to put him at the level of Alexander VI, John XII, Benedict IX, etc.
(If you want to see "bad", take a look at those three in particular, and you will see "bad")
You’re welcome to join those of us who are perpetually teetering on the fence on that issue.
After JPII just about anyone would be a let-down. But, as an outsider, let me say that I was very impressed with him. I'm not impressed with Francis at all. I've held back after all his foibles in the press, hoping it was just translation error.
But Francis' failing even to mention abortion or the massacre of Christians is beyond my ability to process.
He mentioned God nine times
Remember when, on occasion, the Catholic Church would criticize public school policy. I say remember because it DOES NOT happen any more.
The Catholic Church is providing social workers to public schools via Catholic Charities. Catholic Charities finds newly graduated idealistic social workers and hires them to the school district as consultants. They pay a poverty level wage ($18,000) and then add an overhead rate that would make a military contractor blush (90-110%).
Never heard about it you say?
Well everyone involved is very happy with the arrangement. The church gets massive and steady revenue -tax free. The school board for it’s part is buying the full faith of the Catholic Church.
12 years of catholic school here -not a hater by any means. But, I have no interest in this church, unless they sell stock and post a dividend. They do have a fantastic business model and no entity will profit more from global warming redistribution.
Undeniably... No NGO is better positioned to profit from global warming redistribution than the Catholic Church.
I said this on another thread, I’ll repeat here:
If this man, Francis, is responsible for contributions from the US decreasing, the College of Cardinals will find a way to remove him. Return Benedict, or get a Catholic, holy man to save the Church from disaster with diminishing funds.
Depletion of money will wake them, and it is the only thing that we can do.
Yeah, I can see why he didn’t mention SSM (same-sex mirage), because he doesn’t want the Church focused on that, but not the evil of Planned Butcherhood.
I fell for the fake story from a satire web site yesterday that had the Pope saying there was no difference between the Koran and The Bible.
Yes it was a fake story I learned and I had to make multiple apologies here for passing it along before I realized it was satire.
The thing is that when I read the story (now I know to be fake) I was not at all surprised, to me it fit the kinds of things he has been saying.
So yes it was a fake story now I know, but the content sounded like something this pope would say.
So what`s his message to America today? Sounds to me like he is saying to Democrats, you are ok voting for the party of abortion and anti Christian values, the bigger sin is these evil Republicans that are against illegal immigration
That`s what I am hearing....Nothing about voting for candidates that respect life and family, he could have said that, but he does not care
Forgot this was Huff Poop article. They only laud sin.
The issue of sedevacantism has fascinated me for a long time.
It's difficult to navigate between the serious flaws I see in sedevacantism (i.e. doesn't it presume that the Holy Spirit has abandoned the Church, and, if this is the case, how and when is the Holy Spirit to return) with the extremely troubling issues I have with Francis and many of the bishops.
My very first thought two and a half years ago when Benedict XVI resigned/retired was that there was something seriously wrong. The papacy is a solemn office, not something to quit at any time.
History is replete with "bad" popes (notably those from the 15th and 16th century) who used the papacy as an instrument to acquire power and wealth for themselves and their families; however, they DID NOT teach dogmatic error. Francis certainly doesn't seem interested in any personal power or wealth, but he has almost certainly embraced the modernism so wonderfully refuted by Pope Piux IX and Pope Saint Pius X.
It is interesting to consider that Pope Alexander VI (a man who nearly all agree embodied corruption and greed) was far less harmful to the Church than Pope Francis.
Perhaps you should read this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3340721/posts
Instead of making your (plural) demands of the Holy Father, consider no other Christian leader has done what you (plural) are demanding.
Also consider, he spoke to the Congress as a head of state.
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