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May 24
Buckle up. Leo was waiting in the wings at the feet of Bergoglio;
Posted on 05/25/2025 4:05:48 AM PDT by JosephJames
Mohammed was the Anti-Christ. Wherever his followers are in power the percecution of Christians is pressed until none remain.
Thanks, that a start.
The Church is man made because Christ was a man and established the Church to help achieve his example as the Son of God.
I wish he’d gone with Pope Bob I.
The pope, any pope is just a man, a sinner just like you and me. No holier than thou.
Odds are, by looking at past popes, (John Paul an exception) many were EVIL.
The Catholic Church is the epitome of “organized religion”.
False doctrines, pedophile leaders, enriching itself rather than helping the needy.
You don’t need no pope/cardinal/bishop/priest/pastor/minister/Reverend.
ALL you need is The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost (Spirit) and your bible. (original NIV is best)
In short Protestantism is: where everyone is a priest except priests, where everyone can bind and loose except bishops, where you can command angels but not ask their help, where you can talk to the devil but not to saints, where everyone gets a crown except the Virgin Mary, where everyone can interpret Scripture except the Church, where every church is a church except the Church …
As a Protestant, you have to believe that the full Truth of Christianity did not arrive until Martin Luther revealed it in 1517, and that over 1500 years of luminaries such as Justin Martyr, Jerome, Augustine, Aquinas, and others got it all wrong the whole time. Think about that for a moment!
The very first Protestants were part of the John 6:66 movement!
Dr. Alan Firmister tells us how Protestantism laid the foundations of ‘modern secularism’.
Dr. Peter Kreeft, who converted from Calvinism to Catholicism, said: “I discovered that the early Church was clearly, fiercely, and unapologetically Catholic. That left me with only two choices: either the early Church was right, and Protestantism was wrong, or the early Church was wrong, and Christ’s promises to his Church were false”!
“We are compelled to concede to the Papists (CATHOLICS) that they (CATHOLICS) have the Word of God, that we received it from them (CATHOLICS), and that without them (CATHOLICS) we should have no knowledge of it (THE BIBLE) at all” – Martin Luther (renegade Catholic Augustinian Monk and Priest, in his “Commentary of Saint John”.
One has to wonder why Protestants react so vehemently against the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
1) Mary’s immaculate conception is all about Jesus. Mary had to be sinless in order to carry Jesus in her womb.
2) The body of Jesus came from Mary. He had her DNA. (Surprisingly, there are Protestants who object that Jesus has Mary’s DNA!)
3) If Mary had a sin nature, Jesus would have inherited that nature.
Mary is the fulfillment of the Ark of the Old Testament. Just as the Ark was holy, Mary is holy.
Mary is called ‘kecharitomene’ by Gabriel, in which she was made full of grace in the past and will continue in the future.
St. John Henry Newman, who was Anglican and became Catholic, said: “One does not simply become steeped in history and remain protestant.
St. Justin Martyr wrote: “This food is called among us EUCHARIST, of which NO ONE IS ALLOWED to partake EXCEPT one WHO BELIEVES that the things which we teach are true.”
Dr. David Anders wrote: “Poorly formed Catholics become Protestants. And well-formed Protestants become Catholics.”
The false Protestant doctrine of the “Perspicuity” of the Bible: According to this Protestant Doctrine, the Bible is CLEAR and EASY to UNDERSTAND … But the Protestant reality is that the Protestants and the Protestant groups are not in agreement among themselves.
John Sanjeevi wrote: “Protestants question everything, but Never the formation of tens of hundreds of churches with contradictory doctrines. Jesus and his apostles never said anyone had the liberty to interpret Scripture according to one’s private and subjective interpretation, to invent new doctrines and to start new ‘churches’.”
Father Julio Maria de Lombarde wrote: “The Protestant is an atheist wrapped in the cover of a Bible, keeping only the cover, being himself the text of the Bible, that is, his own will, through free interpretation.”
1) The Catholic Church needed reform in the 16th century. But it needed reform in practice not doctrine.
2) It began reforming itself before the Protestant reformation, which culminated in the Counter Reformation.
3) The Protestant reformation created a hybrid Christian faith foreign to the faith handed down by the Apostles.
4) This resulted in a divided church with thousands of denominations.
5) The Protestant reformation was a tragedy.
Protestantism didn’t get rid of the papacy. It made every man his own pope.
A large portion of Protestants are ignorant of the early Church.
Yet, the early Church received its faith directly from the Apostles.
The early Church was Catholic in its theology:
1) The real presence of the Eucharist.
2) Baptismal regeneration.
3) Apostolic succession.
That’s the folly of sola scriptura. More than a thousand years later creating a Christianity that is foreign to the faith that Jesus gave to his disciples. And yet knowing this Protestants will still follow their teaching tradition.
Dr. Peter Kreeft, a former protestant convert to Catholicism, wrote: “Let 500 people interpret the writings in the Bible privately, and you will soon find 500 new sects founded due to different interpretations.” Protestants are their own pope, interpreting the Bible according to their personal interpretation.
Jesus said: “Go out to the whole world: proclaim the Gospel to all creation” (Mk 16:15). Jesus never asked us to start our own church!
Protestantism gets weak Catholics. Catholicism gets strong Protestants!
The first Thanksgiving in America was a Catholic Mass, not Protestant Liturgy FB 231124
Jesus never said this: “And so I say to you, you are Luther, and upon this Luther I will build my churches, 15 centuries later from now. Until all theologians, saints, and Church leaders will be de-voided from the Holy Spirit and will be incapable of interpreting my words correctly.”
It is is worth noting that Pope Francis, for all his shortcomings as a teacher, a spiritual father, and the earthly leader of the the Church, never presumed to change the teaching of the Church by the exercise of making an infallible statement. All of his errors were his own and though they caused scandal and damage in his time, his errors will likely die with him. This is greatly encouraging proof of Jesus' promise of the indefectibility of the Church's teaching by the power of the Holy Spirit. The core teachings of the Church have not been changed and it will go on.
My impression so far of Pope Leo is that at the least he is a normal person and a capable and stable leader, not inclined to "shake things up" like Pope Francis seemed determined to do. He appears to me to be someone who will at least attempt to restore some stability to the Church, and maybe go a long way to attempt to heal the wounds inflicted on the Body of Christ these past 12 years.
Preposterous.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16
You are leading others astray if you tell them the only way to salvation is being sprinkled with water. No grace through faith involved, just water.
Patently false statement.
From Catholic Answers (bold emphasis mine).
"Another possible example of baptism by desire is the thief on the cross. In his case we do not know that he was not baptized (by this time thousands of people in the area had been) and he likely died in the transitional period in history before baptism was mandatory for salvation."
https://www.catholic.com/qa/does-scripture-support-baptism-by-desire
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By a tacit admission the writers at CA actually got something right for a change. Baptism is not a requirement for salvation.
So many falsehoods in so few words.
"Protestants" are not "required" to believe anything Catholicism wishes were the case.
The full Truth given us is found in Scripture, which was completed before 100 AD at the very latest.
John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Nor did anyone ever claim that all the Early Church Fathers (ECFs) got everything wrong all the time.
If you have any proof to support your claims, please post them. Please post links to you can demonstrate where Protestantism requires everyone to believe that the fullness of truth didn't come until Luther and where anyone ever claimed that all the ECFs were all wrong all the time.
I continually find it ironic that Christians are criticized for depending on Scripture alone and yet are constantly accused of rejecting it.
Only a Catholic can reconcile two such contradictory statements at the same time.
Arcivescovo Carlo Maria Viganò
@CarloMVigano
It is normal and humanly understandable that more than a decade of open persecution of Catholics by the one who presented himself as their Pope would lead many of us to desire a truce, hoping that Our Lord would give His Church - if not a new Pius X - at least another Benedict XVI.
But this legitimate desire - certainly animated by good feelings and love for the Church - cannot transform itself into a virtual reality in which, even against all evidence, everything must necessarily be read as a confirmation of what we would like, and not of what is really happening. We cannot build for ourselves a “virtual church” with a “virtual papacy” that we love and serve in a consoling but unreal fiction.
The confirmation of a notorious heretic to the Cathedra of Saint Gallen in Switzerland; the appointment of a nun as Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, in line with the appointment of a Prefectess by Bergoglio; the repeated references to the heretical documents of his predecessor and to Vatican II; the declarations on ecumenism and synodality, and finally the acceptance of climate fraud; all place Robert Francis Prevost in evident and disturbing continuity with his predecessor, and it will certainly not be the stole and mozzetta that will change reality.
May looking at reality with supernatural eyes help us to recognize the deceptions of the Evil One and push us, today more than ever, to place all our hope in Christ the King and Pontiff, so that He may help and protect His Church. May He who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life be our guide in a rebellious world doomed to perdition, lies, and death.
Because it's a completely unscriptural teaching
1) Mary’s immaculate conception is all about Jesus. Mary had to be sinless in order to carry Jesus in her womb.
No, it's all about Mary. Jesus is just an excuse to elevate Mary.
Nor according to Scripture. There is no requirement for Mary to be sinless to carry Jesus to term. The only thing Scripture stated was necessary was her being a virgin, and that was fulfilled.
The rest is just wishful thinking.
3) If Mary had a sin nature, Jesus would have inherited that nature.
Wrong again. The sin nature is inherited from the father, which is why Jesus didn't have one.
It is not passed on through the woman and is not transferred by physical contact.
Mary is the fulfillment of the Ark of the Old Testament. Just as the Ark was holy, Mary is holy.
Nope, if anything Jesus, God Incarnate, would be the ark.
Mary is called ‘kecharitomene’ by Gabriel, in which she was made full of grace in the past and will continue in the future.
An assumption, not even implied in Scripture.
St. John Henry Newman, who was Anglican and became Catholic, said: “One does not simply become steeped in history and remain protestant.
One cannot be steeped in Scripture and remain Catholic.
I know.
But as written in the article, few know the difference between what builds up the Church and what destroys the Church.
Padre Pio indicated that there would be two false popes in this period, the second much worse than the first! “Pope Francis”, Cardinal Bergoglio, nominated many mas0nic cardinals.
THE PRIMARY GOAL OF SATAN, along with Satan’s most powerful group on the earth today, Freemas0nry, especially Ecclesiastical Mas0nry infiltrated into the Catholic Church, is to slowly lower the Catholic Church to a protestant church, and to arrive to the total destruction of the Church that Jesus Christ founded, the Catholic Church. Thus Ecclesiastical Masonry must eliminate the saving Truth of God (faith and morals), explained infallibly by the guidance of the hierarchy of the Church, as Christ founded it, and also eliminate the power for individuals to put into practice this Truth of God, the Holy Sacraments. Only the Catholic Church has the fullness of Truth and the means of sanctification (Lumen Gentium 8). The fundamental way to get to heaven is to seek the Truth of God amid much confusion and persecution, and then to live the Truth of God, with the help of God, especially from the Holy Sacraments and sincere prayer. The protestants basically lost the authentic Truth of God in rebelling against the hierarchy of the Church as Christ intended, and they also lost the very essential sacraments of Holy Orders, Confession and the Eucharist. Very soon this elimination of the hierarchy of the Church and of the Holy Sacraments will be much more openly proclaimed and enforced, and most likely cause an open schism, not hidden as it has been since 2013!
THE ECCLESIASTICAL MAS0NRY HAS SHREWDLY OVERTURNED THE HIERARCHICAL CHURCH as Christ founded it, into a democratic Church in which the Truth is established by the creatures instead of by the Creator. Behold the great attempt to destroy the one true Church, which will soon have to go underground worldwide as it already is in so many countries. With the Synod on Synodality already established, the bishops will now be coerced to obey the established synods in every diocese! The diocesan synods are very easily controlled by Freemas0nry. “The prince of the world” is Satan! (Jn 12:31; 14:30; Rev 12:9)! What we read in 2Thess chapter 2 will now come about very quickly.
https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-protestant-catholic-church.html
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Bogus and non-biblical at the same time.
Why?
Believers have the Holy Spirit indwelling them and there is no impact to the holiness of the Spirit.
This pitiful attempt at justifying the non-biblical Immaculate Conception denies the ability of the God to preserve Christ while in the womb.
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The false Protestant doctrine of the “Perspicuity” of the Bible: According to this Protestant Doctrine, the Bible is CLEAR and EASY to UNDERSTAND … But the Protestant reality is that the Protestants and the Protestant groups are not in agreement among themselves.
Yet John writes in his gospel....these things have been written so that you may know....
Now, here's the issue for the Roman Catholic.
Rome has only dogmatically defined around 40 or so verses in its claimed 2000 year existence (and it's really not 2000 years so if you can't get that right then what else have you gotten wrong!).
Where does this leave the Roman catholic if/when they attempt to read the Bible?
They have no direction. And as Romans have told us repeatedly on these threads you cannot read and understand the Bible on your own. So Romans are left adrift if/when they attempt to study the Bible.
St. Justin Martyr wrote: “This food is called among us EUCHARIST, of which NO ONE IS ALLOWED to partake EXCEPT one WHO BELIEVES that the things which we teach are true.”
Now here's the contradiction for the Roman. Romans say one must actually eat/drink the flesh and blood to be saved.
Yet what Martyr is saying is one must believe in Christ first before participating in the Lord's Supper. Which is not the Roman Catholic position that one must participate in the Lord's Supper to be saved. You guys get a lot of things out of whack.
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St. John Henry Newman, who was Anglican and became Catholic, said: “One does not simply become steeped in history and remain protestant.
When one considers Rome's criteria for its teachings one will quickly find their position collapses under investigation:
At Trent, Roman Catholicism published this.
"Furthermore, in order to restrain petulant spirits, it [the Council of Trent] decrees that no one, relying on his own skill, shall,—in matters of faith, and of morals pertaining to the edification of Christian doctrine,—wresting the sacred Scriptures to his own senses, presume to interpret the said sacred Scripture contrary to that sense which holy Mother Church—to whom it belongs to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures—hath held and doth hold;
or even contrary to the unanimous consent of the Fathers;
even though such interpretations were never (intended) to be at any time published. Contraveners shall be made known by their Ordinaries and be punished with the penalties by law established."
Does Rome live up to this? Nope.
In just the Immaculate Conception there are eight ECFs who say Mary was not immaculate.
If one honestly examines what is said about Peter being the rock one will find the many opinions of the ECFs. Same goes with the issues of the Real Presence claimed by Rome.
The only way Roman catholicism can claim "unanimous consent" is to selectively quote certain ECFs and ignore others....which is to say Rome is rigging the game.
And out of curiosity....you identify as a Roman Catholic priest...yet call yourself Reverend. Why not Father??
—> The leadership is human and subject to their free will,
The leadership is made up of homosexuals and those who enable them.
Christ’s church isn’t led by homosexuals.
Protestantism didn’t get rid of the papacy. It made every man his own pope.
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