Posted on 10/18/2015 10:17:38 AM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis marks 50th anniversary of Synod’s institution
“Finally,” explained Pope Francis, “the synodal process culminates in listening to the Bishop of Rome, called upon to speak authoritatively [It. pronunciare] as ‘Shepherd and Teacher of all Christians’: not on the basis of his personal beliefs, but as the supreme witness of the Faith of the whole Church, the guarantor of the Church’s conformity with and obedience to the will of God, to the Gospel of Christ and the Tradition of the Church.”
And in totally, we swear, completely unrelated news…
Traits of narcissistic personality disorder: The most telling thing that narcissists do is contradict themselves. They will do this virtually in the same sentence, without even stopping to take a breath. It can be trivial (e.g., about what they want for lunch) or it can be serious (e.g., about whether or not they love you). When you ask them which one they mean, they’ll deny ever saying the first one, though it may literally have been only seconds since they said it — really, how could you think they’d ever have said that? You need to have your head examined!
UPDATE: an explanatory comment from my Guy Inside
“He’s fudging… he’s strongly implying infallibility, but not saying that he will pronounce infallibly.
“He wants everyone to come away with ‘Whoa… this is infallible. We hear and obey!’ but leaving plausible deniability to say, ‘No, no, I never claimed this particular bit was infallible….'”
Good post, good analysis of the current situation. Thanks.
In all truth I’m thankful for every single person (good or bad) who God used to get a sinner like me the truth of the Gospel! I love God’s Word and cannot function without it. That is why I abhor inventions, additions and diminishing of it.
And you think Protestants did not write it either? The King James is closer to the original Greek and Hebrew texts than the Latin version. Besises Latin is a declarative martial language totally inappropriate for the Bible due to its lack of dimention, unlike Greek... Oh, yeah, because before Catholics there was the Orthodox and the Copts, by the way... Smdh.
BTW, the Orthodox and the Copts were not before the Catholics.
Why do Catholics take these words of Jesus to mean the “gates of hell” are some kind of offensive weapon of Satan’s? Gates keep stuff in or keep stuff out - nothing more. Gates don’t pick themselves up and attack something. It’s pretty obvious Jesus was stating that the gates of hell cannot prevent the GOSPEL from reaching those hearts diligently seeking to know it - that the growth of the body of Christ cannot be stopped by the barriers thrown up by the enemy of our souls.
Jesus was definitely NOT implying the Roman Catholic church would be immune from the fiery darts of the wicked one. History has shown us that the Roman Catholic church has indeed fallen prey to errors, depraved leaders and heresy. This latest Pope and the hysteria he is causing among faithful RCs is far from the first time it has happened.
You can keep on praying to dead people and worship a man before God. I'll talk to Christ and forego the necromany.
You mean Roman tradition. You can pretend that your heresy has any place in the kingdom of God. Necromancy and worship of man in God’s place are not scriptural (except in your Roman-adulterated book).
I am perfectly content to rest on my faith, free from the shackles of the doctrine of demons and men that form the foundation of the church of Rome, the whore of Babylon.
The Orthodox Church and the Copts are the oldest original church. Catholicism was the result of a schism that was not warranted by St Paul.
But this is not my standard. My standard is translation from the original texts. And Kings James in English is directly translated from Hebrew and Greek, unlike the Latin version which is further from the Hebrew version than Greek, Aramean/arab (coptic) or KJV which are the least reinterpretative versions.
Carholicism has sucked in terms of keeping with historical record, not mentioning the revisionist Vatican II catechism.
Hil-ar-i-ous. Ik sure the Latin Bible is closer to the original than one done in a European backwater knkwn as 17th Century England by a heretic king by arch-heretics.
Yea and on most Issue Cote and Orthodox agree with Catholics not Protestants. They even agree that Peter is the first among equals.
Not so. It was translated directlly from original texts bypassing the latin translation which was a third level from the Greek interpretation. The Latin version is also inconsistent because some words used repetitively in Greek and Hebrew are reflected in latin with variations. The closest translation is Greek and English. And if you think the work of translation by KJV is backwater, it is akin to saying Isaac Newton is an idiot.
I asked for your qualifications. Apparently you have none. And no knowledge of history.
Wrong. Catholics and Orthodox agree on the Primacy of Rome Orthodox Copt Armenians and Ethiopians can take Catholic Communion and Catholics can take theirs if necessary. Oh yeah and we all ask for the intercession of Saints and rightfully honor Mary the Mother of God.That they chose to break from Rmthe Pope is there problem. But absolutely none believe in the German heresy of sola Scriptura and Sola Fide or whatever else is in vogue.
And by the way Greek is still a language if the Catholic Church, given that the Greek texts in the bible were written by Catholics back in the first, second and third Centuries.
And to further blow your mind all agree on the need for a sacramental priesthood and a pistol succession. None believe in Joel Osteen however.
*apostolic (not pistol)
Could God have done it differently, of course He could have ,but He didn't...It is plain that He advanced His word to the world through the efforts of the Catholic Church. The early Catholic monasteries had Monks who devoted their lives to copying and illustrating the Bible....without them you would have NO IDEA at all as to the new testament and would have to zip over to the local synagogue to read the old....Thank God that you have the Bible available to you and do a tiny bit of research as to how you got it....
Yeah, right....we're so lucky that you came along 1,500 years later to save us....WHEW, that was close!!
The reason that you have those quotations is because you are reading them out of a Catholic Bible...
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