Posted on 01/17/2017 12:50:39 PM PST by ebb tide
It happens up the magazine where Bolaffi (the oldest and the largest company in philatelic) announce the stamps to be issued this year. I see the page dedicated to the Statement of the Vatican City, where he announces a << >> issue that astonishes, as he wrote the piece extender: nothing less than a postage stamp of the Holy See that celebrates the five hundred years since the Reformation. Of course, the color image which is above the Vatican paper square is that of Martin Luther.
Google translation.
(Excerpt) Read more at radiospada.org ...
while the illustrated stamp is from Germany not the Vatican,
it does indeed appear your Radar may be “blipping on target”
here:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-gives-stamp-of-approval-to-martin-luther
WOW IT IS ABOUT TIME! The pope of Martin Luther’s day put out an order for Luther to be murdered. So Luther hid out in Wartburg Castle and translate the New Testament. We are Lutherans.
<< “ When is the Mohammed Stamp? “>>
Apparently, Jorge is working his way down.
There were bad popes back then. Luther brought this to the surface so things could be reformed. It was a GOOD Thing.
The 10 worst popes in history
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-worst-popes-in-history.php
Pope Leo X (1475 – 1521)
Often associated with Martin Luther and the upheavals of the Protestant Reformation, Pope Leo X is also well-known for being one of the most lavish, uncontrollable spenders who ever headed the Christian church. A famous phrase attributed to Leo aptly illustrates his greatest priority: “Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it.” According to Alexandre Dumas, “Christianity assumed a pagan character” as Leo doggedly pursued worldly pleasures.
Born Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici, Leo came from a powerful family and enjoyed early favors that helped him acquire the papal throne by the time he was 37. A patron of the arts, education, and charity, Leo certainly deserves to be recognized for elevating the church’s status, but his preference for money and political advancement rapidly exhausted the treasury. So financially unstable did his position become that he was eventually forced to pawn off furniture, jewels, and statues from the palace, as well as borrow huge sums of money from creditors (who were ultimately ruined when he died).
In addition to living a life of splendor, Leo practiced nepotism, famously used the sale of indulgences to finance the reconstruction of St. Peter’s Basilica, and was even accused of homosexuality. In fact, some sources hold that he died in bed while getting it on with a youth. That accusation may or may not be true, of course, but one thing is for sure: Leo certainly let his love of luxury get the best of him.
Yeah thats it. Lets modernize more instead of practicing the eternal faith. Good plan. /s
When do they have a kooran stamp?
Thank-you for the link.
Leo X was Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521. He is known primarily for the sale of indulgences to reconstruct St. Peter’s Basilica and his challenging of Martin Luther’s 95 theses.
According to Alexandre Dumas, “under his pontificate, Christianity assumed a pagan character, which, passing from art into manners, gives to this epoch a strange complexion. Crimes for the moment disappeared, to give place to vices; but to charming vices, vices in good taste, such as those indulged in by Alcibiades and sung by Catullus.” When he became Pope, Leo X is reported to have said to his brother Giuliano: “Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it.”
His extravagance offended not only people like Martin Luther, but also some cardinals, who, led by Alfonso Petrucci of Siena, plotted an assassination attempt. Eventually, Pope Leo found out who these people were, and had them followed. The conspirators died of “food poisoning.” Some people argue that Leo X and his followers simply concocted the assassination charges in a moneymaking scheme to collect fines from the various wealthy cardinals Leo X detested.
It must be freezing in hell-—Next Mohammad will be made a saint, along with Buddha, Zoroaster, and Mani. Strange times indeed—maybe it is the End Times after all?
Alexander VI was Pope from 1492 to 1503. He is the most controversial of the secular popes of the Renaissance, and his surname (Italianized as Borgia) became a byword for the debased standards of the papacy of that era. Originally Cardinal Borgia from Spain, Pope Alexander’s claims to fame were taking over much of Italy by force with the help of his son Cesare (yes, his son), a racy relationship with his daughter Lucrezia (some say her son was his), and his affinity for throwing large parties, bordering on orgies, that usually culminated with little naked boys jumping out of large cakes.
I agree. The Church has survived bad popes before.
However, this one seems to openly mess with apostasy, which is a first. The other popes of history were guilty of more personal nature, of avarice, pettiness, all the things you might name, but Doctrine was not despised and endangered, I believe.
The End Times came with the death of our Lord on the Cross.
The “Last Day”, however, is another matter.
Wait a minute... is this not the very thing that Luther did? Claimed apostasy about the holy father... Why are things now different than was in Luther’s days?
I did not know that Luther issued postal stamps.
You called apostasy? Is that NOT what Luther did... Playing ‘stupid’ over postal stamps fails.
You can take the boy out of the monastic order, but you can’t take the monastic order out of the boy ...
Luther
With conscience cocked to listen for the thunder,
He saw the Devil busy in the wind,
Over the chiming steeples and then under
The doors of nuns and doctors who had sinned.
What apparatus could stave off disaster
Or cut the brambles of man’s error down?
Flesh was a silent dog that bites its master,
World a still pond in which its children drown.
The fuse of Judgement spluttered in his head:
“Lord smoke these honeyed insects from their hives.
All Works, Great Men, Societies are bad.
The Just shall live by Faith...” he cried in dread.
And men and women of the world were glad,
Who’d never cared or trembled in their lives.
WH Auden
Article talks about a “Vatican postage stamp” but the image is clearly a German postage stamp...
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