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To: GeronL; metmom; CynicalBear
If the Pope declared that it is canon that he is a woman, would that make him a woman? Of course not.

Saint Catherine of Sienna would tell us to "calmly lie down to rest on his bosom."

“Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom. He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope. I know very well that many defend themselves by boasting: “They are so corrupt, and work all manner of evil!” But God has commanded that, even if the priests, the pastors, and Christ-on-earth were incarnate devils, we be obedient and subject to them, not for their sakes, but for the sake of God, and out of obedience to Him.”

St. Catherine of Siena, SCS, p. 201-202, p. 222, (quoted in Apostolic Digest, by Michael Malone, Book 5: “The Book of Obedience”, Chapter 1: “There is No Salvation Without Personal Submission to the Pope”)

http://indefenceoftheholyfather.blogspot.com/2013/12/saint-catherine-of-sienna-even-if-pope.html#!/2013/12/saint-catherine-of-sienna-even-if-pope.html

84 posted on 05/20/2015 2:22:20 PM PDT by redleghunter (1 Peter 1:3-5)
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To: redleghunter

we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.

And that damned ELSIE really dishonors our Mary!

Heat the oil hotter!!!

115 posted on 05/20/2015 3:15:42 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: redleghunter

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? James 3:11


269 posted on 05/25/2015 4:39:38 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (If Hitler, Nazi, OR...McCarthy are mentioned in an argument, then the argument is over!)
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