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To: Gamecock
Love the "cue ominous 1920s theater music"! 🎬

That's cute, and as a movie buff, I can just picture that! 🎥

First, I'd go back to the main source, past the article: read where it's from, and what the source actually is all about. Then just ask what we think.

Something to consider: we have one denomination, whether Eastern or Western rites: we're Catholics, and deserve to be called so. I've not called anyone, "Prot" nor "Proddy", mostly "non-Catholic brethren." I've referred to people who choose to interpret Scripture on their own, without an affiliation, as "self-interpreters" for lack of a better term. Being called a Romanist, Papist, cultist, heathen, "child of the cult of Satan" (that one really floored me!) etc. shuts things down.

Just reading the title, if you asked me, (and I haven't read the article yet, so please bear with me) I'd say that the Holy Father came from South America, where the issue of decimating land for gold and the resulting soil erosion, combined with rainforest destruction, is a HUGE issue (and I'm no tree-hugger, but parts of S.A. are turning into a giant mud slide, even I'll agree to that.)

I guess the bottom line is asking what we think/believe/do and why. Things that are so viciously picked on in forum are often things that have a real significance behind them. Disagree, but don't insult, and I mean all of us in forum, and we can learn and better understand one another.

Thanks for asking, I hope I expressed it well, and please know that I mean nothing personal toward you. We live in a world where Judeo-Christian beliefs are not only becoming suppressed, but those who hold them dear are persecuted and murdered. We need one another!

God bless you!
Grateful

778 posted on 04/28/2015 2:05:02 PM PDT by Grateful2God (Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
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To: Gamecock; Salvation; WVKayaker
PS: If all else fails, just do the opposite of Post 777! Lol
Peace, Game!
779 posted on 04/28/2015 2:12:31 PM PDT by Grateful2God (Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
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To: Grateful2God
we have one denomination, whether Eastern or Western rites: we're Catholics, and deserve to be called so. I've not called anyone, "Prot" nor "Proddy", mostly "non-Catholic brethren."

OK. For the record I take no offense to those terms, but to each his own I guess.

Being called a Romanist, Papist, cultist, heathen, "child of the cult of Satan" (that one really floored me!) etc. shuts things down.

Papist? Ever heard of the apologist titled American Papist?

I haven't used the term child of the cult of Satan, not do I recall seeing it, but I can assure you I have been called worse by your churchmen.

795 posted on 04/28/2015 6:06:10 PM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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