FROM THE PASTOR

Church of St. Michael, NYC ^ | April 19, 2015 | by Fr. George W. Rutler

[NKP_Vet]

If not for the Catholic CHurch you would still be praying to the sun gods.

[NKP_Vet]

Father Rutler has forgotten more about scripture than you will ever learn.

[NKP_Vet]

The Bible didn’t fall out of the sky. Do yourself a favor and go to any library in the world and read some Christianity 100. If you have to put down the Catholic Church and her’s teachings 24/7 will you please quit reading the Bible, which is a very Catholic document. Not the first protestant had the first thing to do with the Bible. That’s so hard for some on here to come to grips with. Not hard for anyone that does not a closed mind though. And that is the crux of the problem.

[daniel1212]

The Bible didn’t fall out of the sky. Do yourself a favor and go to any library in the world and read some Christianity 100. If you have to put down the Catholic Church and her’s teachings 24/7 will you please quit reading the Bible, which is a very Catholic document. Not the first protestant had the first thing to do with the Bible.

More mere meaningless assertions, which vain soliloquy is to be ignored until you answer the necessary questions i asked you.

[daniel1212]

Father Rutler has forgotten more about scripture than you will ever learn.

Another desperate assertion in lieu of an argument. Prove it.

[Elsie]

Father Rutler has forgotten more about scripture than you will ever learn.

You know this HOW?

[Elsie]

Do yourself a favor and go to any library in the world and read some Christianity 100.

Oh; but I just LOVE your bible!

Too bad you guys put it together so early though.

If you'd managed to put in your TRADITIONS when you had the chance; there'd be none of us 'discussing' these things on FR today.

[caww]

...." If not for the Catholic CHurch you would still be praying to the sun gods"....

The evidence shows otherwise...

Least you forget....Roman Catholic canon Law #14 (of the thirteenth century in France)..... "Lay members are not allowed to possess the books of the Old or the New Testaments."

The golden door in the chapel of St. Ignatius in San Francisco, uses several symbols identifying the wafer god. The Unicorn, Peacock, and Phoenix are all well known symbols in the occult for 'the sun', Lucifer, or Satan.

Assyrian- style relief of King BarRaqqah from Syria, 8th century, B.C… This solar deity is Baal Hadad.... As you can see the sun is entering the moon (womb). This is a symbol of Horus(Nimrod) or Osiris being reborn. The wafer or sun is placed into the catholic monstrance.

Symbol of the pagan sun-god Shamash; a pagan sun wheel in the temple at Kararak India, which is associated with occultism and astrology;.... plaza at the Vatican, also known as St. Peter’s square.

[CynicalBear]

Ironic that a Catholic would try to excoriate someone about the “sun god” when Catholicism is replete with images, icons, and references to it.

[caww]

It's pretty astounding the depth of denial for the obvious, but then blindness does create false perceptions. How could they possibly see "truth" when they are so determined to find excuses for the obvious.

As long as they contend that the church is authority for the Word and not the Word for the church they will stumble over the truth.....and in many cases deny it.... all the pageantry and display and pomp of the Roman Catholic Church as is evidenced in her ornately decorated altars, the flowing robes and richly embellished garments of her priests... all of this simply reveals but 'relics of pagan Rome' and evidences the origin of 'papal Rome'..... yet the uninformed are taken in by such stuff, thinking that it is the mark of the true religion.

How unlike the Christ who, 'in the midst of Roman pageantry', was born in a stable and placed in a manger and who, some two years before his death, said,.. "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head."........ And how unlike Peter who said,.... "Silver and gold have I none" ....

If the Vatican sold just the jewels and pomp they dressed all the corpses with they could feed a nation in squalor!