Posted on 11/07/2014 3:39:15 PM PST by NKP_Vet
Not all those who claim to be Christians really are, said Pope Francis Friday morning. Some are Christians “in name only,” he said. “They bear the name of Christians but live a life of pagans.”
In his homily at Mass, the Pope that there have always been two types of Christian, those who truly followed Christ and those who only pretended to. At the time of Saint Paul, there were “worldly Christians, Christians in name only, with two or three Christian features, but nothing more.” The Pope called this sort of people “Pagan Christians,” whom St. Paul called “enemies of the cross of Christ.”
In Paul’s time, the Pope said, the two groups of Christians “were in church together, went to Mass on Sunday, praised the Lord, and were called Christians.” So what was the difference? He asked. The second were “enemies of the cross of Christ.”
The Pope went on to say that “even today there are many! We must be careful not to slip into the way of pagan Christians.” These are the ones, he said, who are “pagans painted over with two brush strokes of Christianity, so they look like Christians, but are really pagans.”
According to Francis, we all run the risk of becoming “Christians in appearance.” We are tempted, he said, to mediocrity, and when Christians become mediocre, “it is their ruin, because the heart cools and they become lukewarm.” Francis reminded his hearers that Jesus used strong language to describe this sort of Christians: “Because you are lukewarm, I will vomit you out of my mouth.” These, the Pope said, “are enemies of the cross of Christ. They take the name of Christian, but do not follow the requirements of the Christian life.”
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“They bear the name of Christians but live a life of pagans.”
OBAMA????
PELOSI???
He has no clue what a Christian is... he is a poor lost soul
paganism = secularism...
and their are quite a few within the Roman Catholic Church more concerned with economic justice along with the rest of the progressive agenda than saving souls.
I can name a couple of priests at my own Parrish.
All this rhetoric against “pagan Christians,” when in his own diocese, he encouraged priests to give Communion to all and sundry—where 80% of “couples” are not married. And he manipulated the Synod, trying to push through approval of Communion for adulterers and sodomites.
Kaspar, Marx, Dolan, Wuerl. Osteen, Warren. A lot of names come to mind. Jesse Jackson, Sharpton. And any “Catholic” that ignores the gospel of Jesus Christ, but follows the world, and caves into the sodomite agenda and believes in murdering babies on demand, and priests that give Holy Communion to those same heretics. Pope Francis sounds pretty good today, what will tomorrow bring?
Ditto.
Ironically, this includes many priests, and a few bishops.
So is it just the “pagan” Christians who are the enemies of the Cross or are Jews and Muslims enemies of the Cross too?
Inquiring minds would like to know.....
You guys need to rein in Frances with a muzzle before he pulls everybody over the ledge and disaster ensues.
The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.[Cardinal Newman - Development of Christian Doctrine, pg 373]
God bless Pope Francis.
That's an interesting list of non-Catholics that comes to your mind.
Given his past comments, you DO wonder who Francis has in mind. Is he talking about Catholics who support abortion and gay marriage, or about Catholics who oppose Obamacare and amnesty for illegals? Or is that even the kind of dividing line that he is thinking of?
Frances’ precious LGBTs are pagans whether they pretend to be “Catholic” or not.
I’m not convinced that ‘0bama’ bears the name Christian.
Anybody who votes for democrats ... and claims to be a Christian ... is badly in need of repentance and conversion. The democrat party is anti-Christ.
We see that here on FR.
They’ll be showing up shortly on this thread, if they already haven’t.
Matthew 7:21-23 (NIV):
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.[Cardinal Newman - Development of Christian Doctrine, pg 373]
So is this why, after years of research into the history of Christianity as well as Anglican Theology, that Newman became a Catholic?
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