Posted on 04/20/2018 5:03:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Church 'needs us to be prophets, not critics,' the Pope said
The church needs true prophets who not only speak the truth fearlessly, but also empathise with the suffering of their people, Pope Francis said.
A prophet must always be a person who not only “is able to cry for his people, but also capable of taking risks to speak the truth,” the Pope said in his homily on April 17 at morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
The Church “needs us to be prophets. Not critics, that’s another thing. One thing is to be the critical judge who likes nothing, who doesn’t like anything,” he said. “That is not a prophet.”
In his homily, the Pope reflected on the day’s first reading from the Acts of the Apostle, which recounted St Stephen’s martyrdom.
The first martyr of the Church was stoned to death after denouncing the elders and scribes as “stiff-necked people” who “always oppose the Holy Spirit.”
Truth, Pope Francis said, is always “uncomfortable” and when a prophet speaks the truth, hearts can either open or “become more like a rock, unleashing anger, persecution.”
The Pope noted that while Jesus also reprimanded people at times with harsh words, even calling them a “perverse and adulterous generation,” he also cries for them, as he did when he wept for Jerusalem.
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Pope needs a mirror.
LOL !!! Thinking the same thing.
This pope is a heretic
Coincidentally, every time I think about Pope Francis or read or hear what he has to say, my first thought is the Biblical admonishment to beware of false prophets
Funny how that works
Look who’s talking.......
Just as Jesus told us it would be.
First thought, and first post.
Totally oblivious, isn’t he?
Was he passing out mug shots of himself too?
The bad ones know they are bad, but claim they are good, as they persecute the actual good.
The very bad ones dont know they are bad, think they are good, and claim to be good while destroying the good.
Takes one to know one.
Beware of false popes
Francis is an SJW pretending to be a pope.
Beware of false popes
Francis is an SJW pretending to be a pope.
Just like when zero-tolerance libtards accuse others of being nazis.
Whoever came up with that idea for a Catholic Spring was brilliant.
Wonder if Comrade Pope added his own name to the top of the list as “The False Prophet”?
“Beware of False Prophets, Pope Francis Warns”
Irony. It’s what’s for dinner.
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