Posted on 10/10/2019 4:03:52 PM PDT by RummyChick
This story was updated at 2:25 p.m EST to include a brief statement from the Vatican, which does not deny what Scalfari reported about Pope Franics, only saying it "cannot be considered as a faithful account of what was effectively said, but represent more a personal free interpretation of that which he [Scalfari] heard." (See below.)
In the latest edition of La Repubblica, Pope Francis' longtime atheist friend and interviewer, Eugenio Scalfari, claims that the Pope told him that once Jesus Christ became incarnate, he was a man, a "man of exceptional virtues" but "not at all a God."
The teaching of the Catholic Church and most Christian churches is that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was incarnated as fully man and fully God.
As the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, "The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human. He became truly man while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ is true God and true man. During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against the heresies that falsified it. (464)"
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In the middle ages a man saying what Francis reportedly says (and certainly did say in Abu Dhabi) would be burned at the stake as a heretic. He won’t be now, he won’t even be deposed as Pope. But he’s still a heretic.
You Catholics are going to have to change that Vicar of Christ and infallible thing about your popes.
In the middle ages a man saying what Francis reportedly says (and certainly did say in Abu Dhabi) would be burned at the stake as a heretic. He won’t be now, he won’t even be deposed as;
Surprised that hasn’t happened in effigy yet
Yes,and just WHO forced Benedict out?
Popes die.
Then their successor assumes the pontificate.
WTF is up with a "Pope emeritus"?
The REAL Pope, Benedict XVI is still alive!
The lavender mafia running the Catholic Church elected him.
Pope Paul VI wasn’t kidding when he said through some crack the smoke of satan has entered the church.
The Vatican said Wednesday that an Italian journalist it has previously corrected was not speaking accurately when he claimed that Pope Francis denied Christ’s divinity."As already stated on other occasions, the words that Dr. Eugenio Scalfari attributes in quotation marks to the Holy Father during talks with him cannot be considered a faithful account of what was actually said but represent a personal and free interpretation of what he heard, as appears completely evident from what is written today regarding the divinity of Jesus Christ,” Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See’s press office, said in a statement Oct. 9.
The statement came in response to a column in La Repubblica, the newspaper founded by Scalfari, in which the 95-year-old self-declared atheist said that “Pope Francis conceives Christ as Jesus of Nazareth, a man, not God incarnate.”
Scalfari did not claim that he had recently interviewed the pontiff, only saying that this was a topic he had discussed with Pope Francis at some time in the past.
Hearsay from a self proclaimed atheist. Sounds a bit like our very own "whistleblower."
Too many Christians eager to take the side of an atheist whistleblower.
B.t.w., not saying this is the best Pope ever...but let’s not rush to take the word of a self proclaimed atheist who’s apparently trying to be Rome’s version of our traitorous so called whistleblower.
It is said that you are judged by the friends you keep.
What does it say about Pope Francis that he confides in this atheist reporter?
And give that this reporter has embarrassed the Pope before why does he continue to see and speak with this reporter?
My conclusion is that the Pope is using the reporter to put these heresies out in to the world to spread them and undermine the faith.
Francis from the beginning has spread heresies, even long before he was Pope.
who chose this Pope, and what does that say about he Church hierarchy and Cardinals..
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You’ve heard of the Deep State... welcome to the Deep Church.
Drain the catacombs of vipers!
The Cardinals who elected him were well aware of this which is very telling.
“WHO forced Benedict out?”
Exactly. This isn’t done but it was.
St. Malachay is looking to be more right every day.
And give that this reporter has embarrassed the Pope before why does he continue to see and speak with this reporter?"
We could just as easily ask why our great President Trump continues to give interviews and take questions from those in our media who have participated in the ongoing, longest coup attempt in history.
995 days and counting.
Don’t forget that Trump banned Jim Acosta from the White House press briefings.
Stooopidist Pope ever!
Late ping to year old post.
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