Talks about "climate change", "refugee rights", and "economic justice."
Never mentions the Gospel of Jesus Christ once.
Posted on 10/31/2016 5:30:42 PM PDT by marshmallow
Francis was speaking at a service to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation
Pope Francis urged Catholics and Lutherans to take decisive steps toward unity and “move beyond” the controversies that have divided western Christianity.
However, the Pope nevertheless offered no new openings to the idea of sharing Communion before full unity is achieved.
“We Christians will be credible witnesses of mercy to the extent that forgiveness, renewal and reconciliation are daily experienced in our midst,” the Pope said on October 31 during an ecumenical prayer service in the Lutherans’ Lund cathedral, which was built as a Catholic cathedral in the 11th century.
With the prayer service, Pope Francis and leaders of the Lutheran World Federation launched a year of activities to mark the 500th anniversary in 2017 of Martin Luther’s efforts to reform the Church.
For Pope Francis and the Vatican, Catholics are called to commemorate the event by focusing on concrete ways to express and strengthen the doctrinal agreements reached by Catholic and Lutheran theologians over the past 50 years. The most appropriate way to mark the anniversary, they said, was with common prayer and renewed commitments to working together to help the poor and promote justice.
The Lutherans agree, but many also saw the joint commemoration as a moment to recognize that the joint agreements on issues of faith over the past 50 years mean it is appropriate now to expand occasions when eucharistic sharing is possible.
The Catholic Church has insisted that regular sharing of the Eucharist will be possible only when divided Christians have attained full unity.
In his homily at the Lund cathedral, the Rev Martin Junge, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, expressed his hope for shared Communion sooner.
While in the past Catholics and Lutherans sometimes carried stones to throw.........
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
Doctrine was important 499 years ago and still is important. Catholics are confessional lutehrans are still light years away on justification and sanctification.
“The Catholic Church has insisted that regular sharing of the Eucharist will be possible only when divided Christians have attained full unity.”
He wants everyone to be Lutherans and adopt Lutheran doctrines. How nice.
Talks about "climate change", "refugee rights", and "economic justice."
Never mentions the Gospel of Jesus Christ once.
Fine words. I am still not joining in phony kumbaya syncretism and unionism with them.
Hi.
You know I’m a Catholic...
“Never mentions the Gospel of Jesus Christ once.”
Not once. I was stunned.
5.56mm
500 years and the Pope is still trying to tell the Lutherans what to do.
Well at least this time around he isnt burning us Protestants at the stake.
The goal of the anti Christ spirit is a one world government and a one world religion. This is a promotion of the one world religion, also know as Babylon, which gets turned on and annihilated later under the anti Christ. This pope just might be the false prophet.
Can you impeach a Pope?
We Catholics ignore him. If you are Lutheran (or even if you are not), so should you. When he is dead, the next Conclave won’t repeat the horrible mistake of electing anything like Frankie.
“500 years and the Pope is still trying to tell the Lutherans what to do.”
I know what you mean. Instead, he should be telling lutherans where to go.
Regrettably there is no known method of impeachment. He has compromised health and advanced age as his only positive qualities. God will fire him when the time comes.
Ok.
But there are still things we disagree on. You can’t paper over them.
And he is talking to the woman priest, homo loving, churches. They often don’t believe in the Incarnation.
If there is a next time.
I agree; these meetings are exercises in futility. The differences between Catholicism and Protestants are too wide to bridge.
Hey Comrade Frankie -- how about a "renewed commitment to HELP PROMOTE THE GOSPEL"??
An argument could be made the differences between roman catholicism and Christianity are too wide to bridge.
There is a difference.
For a direct link to the “joint declaration”:
http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2016/10/31/0783/01757.html#orig
Read it and then read this encyclical from a true and Catholic pope:
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius11/P11MORTA.HTM
Possibly, but when Lutherans celebrate their female/gay ministers and divorces it is find to see any Christianity left there. Which do you think Christ would recognize?
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