Posted on 04/21/2025 7:49:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We are going to get a Chinese puppet/ yes man as pope if the Vatican doesn’t delay the crap out of this/is destroyed. Remember the prophecy of Arnold win/Malachy
I wasn’t I pressed with Bergogolio either. He ruined the mass by changing the words. Yuk. I still say it the way I was taught through twelve years of Catholic school.
No doubt, it's a slow motion train wreck. The Albany NY church (capital of NY) is in bankruptcy, selling properties to hang on a few more years, the end is inevitable without significant change.
The similarities between the College of Cardinals and Church Magisterium and secular institutions like Supreme Courts, Senates, House of Lords, can be striking. And that includes politics and conflicts over political / ideological views.
The Pope appoints Cardinals, and they go on to choose his successor. Since Benedict was removed in a quiet coup, I believe that the Vatican has been radically transformed by Neo-Marxism.
Not the African Cardinals. They are VERY conservative.
One of them is Robert Cardinal Sarah from Guinea, but he is 80 years old.
I hope one of them—younger, but as strongly faithful—is made the new Pope!
What Biden did to the USA is identical to what Francis has done to the Church.
It is and saddens me. I really loved being Catholic as a kid. Felt so special, but today? I’m of course still Catholic, but it has ruined my love for it.
No, the liberals are too entrenched in the church. If a conservative is chosen he won’t last long.
That is how I read it too.
It is going to take decades to undo the damage
Well, you could also argue that Trump appointed Gorsuch, Kavanagh and Coney Barrett to the SCOTUS, too.
I think just the opposite - but I hope I’m wrong.
Never forget: the cardinals elect the pope,
And Pope Francis has appointed most of the currently active cardinals.
Being a leftist, I’m sure the ones he appointed align with his views.
According to the Express.co.uk (Sorry, I don’t HTML) the top six contenders sor the papacy are:
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle
Cardinal Pietro Parolin
Cardinal Wim Eijk
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu
Cardinal Peter Erdo
Cardinal Raymond Burke: An arch-conservative American
There are certain similarities in that. One feature is not so much an analogue but more an identity. That is the progressive attacks on Christianity.
“As of April 2025, approximately 80% of the cardinals eligible to vote in a papal conclave were appointed by Pope Francis
Wikipedia”
So the next one will almost certainly be worse.
“I still say it the way I was taught through twelve years of Catholic school.”
Dropping Latin was a travesty.
Will the RCC do the same? I hope so. But I fear beliefs like papal supremacy and apostolic secession make it harder for the good minded Catholics to tell their worldly pushing leaders to pound sand.
We want to paint everything with an either liberal or conservative paint brush because it makes it easier to fit into our world views but it is lazy thinking.
In the Christian realm there are heresies
A heresy is a belief or doctrine that is considered to be false or erroneous by one or more Christian denominations, i.e. what is believed to be contrary to the teaching of Christianity.
In every generation since Christ, there have been many heresies. Most are just the same old same old repackaged.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_heresies
Truth
What about all those thousands and thousands of simple illiterate peasants who made up so much of the Catholic Church over the centuries? They don't count. Anyone drawn to their piety and simplicity is out of luck, because all the potential converts will here from their conversion attempts is rationalism, intellectualism, and philosophy.
As Pascal said, the "gxd" of Catholicism is the "gxd" of the philosophers, not the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
I believe Vance is a "theistic evolutionist" as well. That's kinda the first requirement.
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