Posted on 06/09/2015 11:30:50 AM PDT by thetallguy24
For the first time in Vatican history, the pope allowed for the reading of Islamic prayers and Koran readings from the Catholic facility.
The readings and prayer came as Pope Francis met with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Vatican City, a gathering designed to pray for Middle Eastern peace.
A Holy See spokesman said the prayers were supposed to be a “pause in politics,” Breitbart reported. The pope said, too, that he hoped the interfaith prayers would foster peace specifically between Israelis and Palestinians, the news outlet said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I thought you were leaving this thread?
Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?
When YOUR head explodes; THEN you'll know!
John the Baptist.
It is possible to be so open minded that the brain falls out.
bingo
One of mine and a few of others earlier post calling out the posting date to the original poster have been deleted, so, I guess that this is what we are supposed to be talking about.
Them and the moderators have holes blown all thru this thread.
There is an agenda on Free Republic, RIGHT NOW, with this thread.
I dont know what it is but it stinks!
Exactly my point...
Are you making the claim that the religion moderator is being biased? As a Non-RCC cultist, I can assure you that I have been personnally spanked by them before.
There are plenty of RCC websites you can visit if you wish no confrontation. Many of us look at the idol worship and mariology of that cult as an affront to the realities of God's plan. They have no foundation except in the minds of the truly indoctrinated. Therefore, we are bound to confront the errors we see!
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Gal 2: 11 When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. 13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?
15 “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles 16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
17 “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! 18 If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.
19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
It’s censorship.
And it does stink.
Thanks to the administration for not capitulating.....
Clarification.
It was an attempt at censorship by the RC’s who were whining about the thread being ***GASP*** a YEAR OLD!!!!!!
Thanks to the admin for not being sucked into being used as a tool of censorship by a special interest group just because that group is getting their behinds whipped in a discussion....
Two questions:
1. If the Father asked you to be a virgin your whole life and bear His Son, what would have been your reply?
2. In the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass there is the constant use of Holy Scripture, so why do you infer that Roman Catholics are not deeply rooted in it?
In fact true Roman Catholics take Holy Scripture far more literally than those of the protestant revolt heresy.
I would HOPE so!
EVERY thread on FR is some type of 'agenda'!
That is what we are HERE for!
The test and battle of ideas, concepts and philosophies!
Evidently it did not take hold very well; for we also find JOHN writing to error filled CATHOLIC churches in Asia; in the last book of the bible the Catholics put together.
"Are you the same GOD that said, "Be fruitful and MULTIPLY?"
The same GOD that had these words penned:
Psalm 127:3-5
3 Children are a heritage from the Lord,
offspring a reward from him.
4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior
are children born in one’s youth.
5 Blessed is the man
whose quiver is full of them.
They will not be put to shame
when they contend with their opponents in court.
The same GOD that hath said, "I changeth NOT."
Hoo boy....
While Catholics believe the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it is true, one cannot take individual biblical quotes or passages and say each one is literally true, Pope Benedict XVI said....In his message, the Pope said clearer explanations about the Catholic position on the divine inspiration and truth of the Bible were important because some people seem to treat the Scriptures simply as literature, while others believe that each line was dictated by the Holy Spirit and is literally true. Neither position is Catholic, the Pope said.
-- from the thread How to Read the Bible as a Catholic
The Church should combat widespread "Biblical illiteracy" among the Catholic faithful, Archbishop Eterovic said.
-- from the thread Synod to Focus on Proper Use of Scripture
...while fewer believers know much about the Bible, one-third of Americans continue to believe that it is literally true, something organizers of the Synod on the Word of God called a dangerous form of fundamentalism that is “winning more and more adherents…even among Catholics.” Such literalism, the synod’s preparatory document said, “demands an unshakable adherence to rigid doctrinal points of view and imposes, as the only source of teaching for Christian life and salvation, a reading of the Bible which rejects all questioning and any kind of critical research”....
....The flip side of this embarrassment is the presumption among many Catholics that they “get” the Bible at Mass, along with everything else they need for their spiritual lives. The postconciliar revolution in liturgy greatly expanded the readings, with a three-year cycle in the vernacular that for the first time included Old Testament passages. Given that exposure, many think they do not need anything else. As Mr. McMahon put it, “The majority still say you go to Mass, you get your ticket punched, and that’s it for the week.”
-- from the thread A Literate Church: The state of Catholic Bible study today
According to a study released in September by Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, evangelical Protestants are a whopping eight times more likely than Catholics to read the Bible on a weekly basis. Of course, the survey only looked at private Bible reading; it did not take into account the Scripture passages Catholics take in at every Mass. Still, we tip our hats to our separated brothers and sisters in Christ for their zeal for the Word of God.
-- from the National Catholic Register article Get Cracking, Catholics!
The pope allows equal footing to Muslim prayers in the Vatican. I suppose that lines up with their belief that they all serve the same god.
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