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Beware of False Prophets, Pope Francis Warns
The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 4/17/18 | Junno Arocho Esteves

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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To: marshmallow

That includes false prophets posing as the Pope...


21 posted on 04/21/2018 3:48:53 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: marshmallow

Typical liberal. Accuses others of what he is doing. Is that part of Alinsky strategy?


22 posted on 04/21/2018 3:53:57 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: marshmallow

Is he looking in a mirror when he says that???


23 posted on 04/21/2018 6:49:13 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: marshmallow

Just some more run-of-the-mill post Vatican II deception.


24 posted on 04/21/2018 6:55:04 AM PDT by piusv (Pray for a return to the pre-Vatican II (Catholic) Faith)
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