Posted on 10/22/2015 3:52:58 AM PDT by Biggirl
The Islamic Republic of Iran is already reaping diplomatic dividends from the disastrous nuclear deal it entered into last July with the P-5 + 1 nations (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany). Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will be visiting Rome Italy next month, marking his first trip to a European Union capital. His trip will include a meeting with Pope Francis. Rouhani will then be moving on to Paris. It is a victory lap by the president of a regime that got virtually everything it wanted in the deal, and is choosing selectively which portions of the deal it will ignore.
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Are these damn fools NUTS??????? (
The RCC is gone.
The only hope for Catholics now are Coptic, Greek, and Russian Orthodox churches.
“It is a victory lap by the president of a regime that got virtually everything it wanted in the deal, and is choosing selectively which portions of the deal it will ignore.”
Frontpagemag needs to write an instructive and informative article on WHY the ‘Islamic Republic’ of Iran, has been permitted by the U.S. to continue as a governing, very much in-charge political entity & government in Iran since 1979, when Khomeini took political power in Iran — in spite of repeatedly yelling “Death to America”.
....Or wait for another conservative cardinal to become Pope. I look at Pope Francis stepping down once he hits 80.
In summary, everyone is giving their lunch money to the tough kid.
“The only hope for Catholics now are Coptic, Greek, and Russian Orthodox churches.”
I beg to differ. Those you list, like those of the “Vatican II” sect, are heretics who do not believe in the idea of popes. Thus they are heretical.
On the other hand, there are groups of loyal Roman Catholics who have not rebelled against ages of consistent doctrine and papal leadership, who are Sedevacantists, that is, they observe that there is not a visible valid pope today like there were for ages up until the death of Pope Pius XII of happy memory.
Thus, such loyal Roman Catholics, though small in number, continue to practice worship and Church law as it was at the time of Pope Pius XII’s death (and thus remains valid to this day), while they also pray for the rise of a valid pope. The Church thereby survives in otherwise good health.
It is viable to practice under the leadership of a dead captain when those who do so study and obey all that the captain said and taught before he died. It is thus possible for the ship to remain healthy and to reach port. It is when crew abandon the lessons of the captain and despair at his passing that the ship is lost.
It is particularly necessary if after such captain’s death that a false captain appears at the helm. Such must be resisted and totally rejected for the health of the ship.
(Those practicing the Novus Ordo are not the Church, though many are ignorant and in the dark about what is going on and thus perhaps less culpable.)
Why settle for the “leadership of a dead captain” or any mere man when you have access to the Throne of Heaven itself through Jesus Christ?
The silence is similar to that of another time in the last century. History repeats itself...only the victims change.
Rome is weak, Europe is weak and the sun is setting on the west.
At least the end can be viewed in High Def/Surround Sound.
:-)
I heard yesterday that Francis has a benign Brain Tumor
Why settle for the “leadership of a dead captain” or any mere man when you have access to the Throne of Heaven itself through Jesus Christ?
Where were your kind when numerous popes were appointed by the Church immediately after Saint Peter’s (of happy memory) death? This no-pope stuff is a recent fad which is a heresy against Christ and His Bride. Go ahead, look into history. The pope was always an integral part of the Church and respected until the recent years such as at the times of Henry the III and Luther, both of unhappy memory.
As Saint Paul once said, you interpret the scriptures to your own destruction. The Church (who selected the scriptures) alone has authority to interpret the holy scriptures.
My kind? What’s that supposed to mean?
The history of popes is rife with every kind of corruption and abuse. I’m glad they don’t have the power to burn, drown, torture, and behead “heretics” as they did in the past.
The RCC and the Mohammedans were vying for “most cruel governance” up until the European enlightenment. Looks like the Mohammedans have that title today, but I suspect that, given the upper hand, the RCC and the Mohammedans would be neck and neck, pardon the pun.
As for history, there were no popes in the book of Acts. Closest thing I could find to that was the president of the council in Jerusalem in Acts 15. That would be James, “the Lord’s brother.”
In fact, Paul wrote of Peter in Galatians, “I withstood him to the face, for he was to be blamed.” Apparently Peter hadn’t worked out the whole pope thing even by that time.
There is no special “interpretation” needed for the Book of Acts, or even of Galatians. They are written in very plain language with few metaphors or allegories.
Hail Ants!
By “your kind”, I mean heretical (as pronounced by popes of happy memory.)
To deny the papacy is thus heresy.
There were abuses during the necessary crusades, which influenced a schism in Byzantium, but such abuses were not sanctioned by the Church. Nor is the earth spared of abuses in the wake of nearly every decent historical event, for that matter!
Did Christ Jesus our blessed lord, apologize for Judas? Jesus was neither wrong for choosing Judas as an apostle, nor to blame for Judas’ sin. It is the same with other abuses of apostolic power. We keep the good, reject the evil. We don’t throw out the kitchen and utensils with the trash.
How long did the book of Acts last? Did Peter, the first pope, die during the book of Acts? No? Then selecting popes was not even at issue till after Saint Peter’s martyrdom, which death isn’t recorded in the book either.
Throughout the first centuries of Christian history try to find any disputes with the papacy. You find none? Then you stand against numerous heroic martyrs and holy saints who spoke throughout history with loving reverence for the popes.
There are numerous incidents throughout scripture where Saint Peter’s primacy is expressed, though we did not have a word for “pope” perhaps till later.
Matthew 16: 18-19
And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
The Borgia popes, the Medici popes, even a time when there were as many as three men all claiming to be pope and all at war with each other.
> Throughout the first centuries of Christian history try to
> find any disputes with the papacy.
“Disputes with the papacy” were usually met with merciless extermination of whole families and tribes, and the destruction of any of their writings, at least since Constantine.
Disputes and nonconformity in the early church, in writings that have miraculously survived vigorous purges and persecutions and the ensuing genocides, were detailed by EH Broadbent in his book, “The Pilgrim Church”. He’s a “heretic”, by your reckoning, so you might not be able to read it.
You can have your tradition. There were many who rejected it throughout all history and paid the ultimate price for it.
Regardless of the banned books you may read, you stand against thousands upon thousands of books by and accounts about holy saints whose lives were astounding examples of charity and wisdom and passion for our Lord Jesus Christ and his immaculate mother, Mary and, of course, the pope:
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Bernard
Saint Benedict
Saint Barbara
Saint Cicelia
Saint Basil
Saint Patrick
Saint Bonaventure
Saint Lucy
Saint Bernadette
Saint Therese of the Child Jesus
Saint Theresa of Avila
Saint John Bosco
Saint Nicholas
Saint Ignatius of Antioch
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Charles
to mention a few.
> Regardless of the banned books you may read, you stand
> against thousands upon thousands of books by and accounts
> about holy saints whose lives were astounding examples of
> charity and wisdom and passion for our Lord Jesus Christ
> and his immaculate mother, Mary and, of course, the pope:
I’ll venture those saints would have been as righteous without a pope, because they all needed the righteousness of Christ to be saved. Even Mary needed a Savior.
Luke 1:46-47
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
As for the papacy, claims to continuity are mitigated by episodes like this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism
Election 2016 / Global Warming Hoax / 2nd Amendment ping.
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