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To: AlaskaErik
There, fixed it. He is neither shepherd nor teacher to Christians.

If Francis were truly a Catholic Pope, I would take issue with the above statement. However, being as who he is, I don't even consider him to be either a shepherd or a teacher to Catholics.

9 posted on 10/18/2015 10:40:28 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide; AlaskaErik

Wow! We do have an anti-Francis crowd here!
Forget the Divine Encounter with the much married Samaritan woman at the well; the Prodigal Son; and the brigand and murderer crucified with the Christ. The communion rails now become barricades rather than functioning as a threshold to the Divine encounter. Married Catholics whose prior marriages have floundered on the shoals of human fallibity are consigned to be deprived of the Living Waters in the Eucharist. Annulments are only for the Kennedys and Sinatras of this world. The poor Paraguayan laborer who has re-married following an earlier failed marriage must stand at the back of the divine banquet. This has never been the teaching of the ONE true Catholic Church.


50 posted on 10/18/2015 12:15:30 PM PDT by Steelfish
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