I think we may have already reached the tipping point ... this is what happens every time the L.A. Lakers win or lose a championship game or some Eurotrash nation loses the World Soccer Cup.
I think we may have already reached the tipping point ... this is what happens every time the L.A. Lakers win or lose a championship game or some Eurotrash nation loses the World Soccer Cup.
This looks like Pestilent Barack Obama's Urban Civilian Corps in action ...PING!!
The Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches have thousands of Saints, 10,000 according to Wiki.
It is ridiculous. They have no power, they are no more than regular humans ‘deemed’ by a Pope to be special somehow. There is nothing biblical about that.
In reality they are more like old testament Prophets, ordinary, flawed humans used by God for a purpose.
Ping
The pic at the top looks like Detroit
The silence of 400 years on the part of so many learned authors who had written about the popes, and the silence of St. Bernard especially, who wrote the "Life of St. Malachy", is a strong argument against their authenticity, but it is not conclusive if we adopt Cucherat's theory that they were hidden in the Archives during those 400 years.
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The last of these prophecies concerns the end of the world and is as follows: "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End." It has been noticed concerning Petrus Romanus, who according to St. Malachy's list is to be the last pope, that the prophecy does not say that no popes will intervene between him and his predecessor designated Gloria olivæ. It merely says that he is to be the last, so that we may suppose as many popes as we please before "Peter the Roman". Cornelius a Lapide refers to this prophecy in his commentary "On the Gospel of St. John" (C. xvi) and "On the Apocalypse" (cc. xvii-xx), and he endeavours to calculate according to it the remaining years of time.
The obsession with the end times is disguised narcissism: “When I die, the whole universe should come to an end.”
Concerning times and seasons, brothers, you have no need for anything to be written to you.
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.
When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
But you, brothers, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief.
For all of you are children of the light* and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness.
Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober.
Those who sleep go to sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.
But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.
For God did not destine us for wrath, but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live together with him.
Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do.
As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and priests. --Akita, Japan, 10-13-73 http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/akita.htmBXVI himself gave us "warnings," when he said:
The very future of the world is at stake. --BXVI, 12-20-10 http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2010/december/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20101220_curia-auguri_en.html
[I]t is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres...The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life. --Pope Benedict XVI, 1-29-12 http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=13035