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Vatican praises Arafat for Palestinian vision
ABC News ^ | 11-11-04

Posted on 11/11/2004 7:16:53 AM PST by SJackson

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To: SJackson

I feel their pain? I guess the next thing is Clinton will become pope.


41 posted on 11/11/2004 7:54:21 AM PST by Humvee
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To: SJackson

I am so humiliated by my faith in the Catholic church...we are total pansies.


42 posted on 11/11/2004 7:57:37 AM PST by My Favorite Headache (Absalom, Absalom, Absalom....)
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To: SJackson
Uh, who is surprised that the Vatican would say something abominable in favor of a dictator? Their little inquisition in Spain didn't seem to mind murdering Jews by burning them at the stake in the 1400s and 1500s, so why wouldn't they just fall in love with a modern-day Jew-killer like Arafat? The Vatican is corrupt and always has been. I feel a great swell of sorrow for the everyday folks within the Catholic Church who are actually trying to find and follow God's way. It's sad because they're led by such wicked people, and the common Catholic deserves better.
43 posted on 11/11/2004 7:59:04 AM PST by MarcoPolo
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To: SJackson
A Palestinian "vision" from Sept. 11, 2001:


44 posted on 11/11/2004 7:59:17 AM PST by ellery (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: maestro

How ironic is it that they'll criticize Bush for the war on terror, but praise Arafat


45 posted on 11/11/2004 8:01:23 AM PST by My Favorite Headache (Absalom, Absalom, Absalom....)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife
The possibility that it was a mistranslation would be more valid if it was the only statement that had been made. But with the other statements and the Vatican's criticism of Israel, it seems likely to me that the translation was accurate.

Have you seen this? Vatican equates anti-zionism with antisemitism.

Sort of like John Kerry, the Vatican's diplomacy takes both sides of every issue when it comes to prudential judgements, ie matters that are not of doctrine or dogma.

46 posted on 11/11/2004 8:01:36 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Don't blame me, I volunteered for Toomey)
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To: SoothingDave

Ask not what your God can do for you, but what you can do for God's children?

Time for the Vatican to be a peace maker not a side taker!


47 posted on 11/11/2004 8:02:00 AM PST by sodpoodle (sparrows are underrated)
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To: SJackson; MarMema; A. Pole; Destro; K. Smirnov; Honorary Serb; Cronos; The_Reader_David; ...

Just upholds my view that the Vatican is morally bankrupt. Will he morn Saddam's execution too? Did he mourn the Iotola Khomani's death?


48 posted on 11/11/2004 8:04:15 AM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: SoothingDave
Purgatory is not a way to "get out of hell." They are entirely different things. Try not to display your ignorance.

Please, do enlighten us. What is the difference in getting prayed out of Purgatory and the way to "get out of hell?"

49 posted on 11/11/2004 8:07:00 AM PST by MarcoPolo
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To: sodpoodle
Time for the Vatican to be a peace maker not a side taker!

Please explain. Why do you think the Vatican has "taken sides" and what would "being a peace maker" entail?

And I still haven't received from anyone an answer to what is unChristian about expressing sympathy to the grieving and desiring peace.

SD

50 posted on 11/11/2004 8:07:29 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: dubyaismypresident

"Probably a poor translation. I once heard this old Italian saying during a sermon at mass once, "the translator is a liar"."

The old Italian saying, in Italian, is "Tradutore, Trattitore" (I think) which means, "Translator, Traitor". The Italians, who gave the world Machiavelli, are very familiar with the concept of a translator misrepresenting the facts for some nefarious end.


51 posted on 11/11/2004 8:07:49 AM PST by bowzer313
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To: cubreporter

Chill. The Pope knows what he's doing.


52 posted on 11/11/2004 8:09:20 AM PST by adc
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To: SoothingDave
So the Pope prayed for Arafat's soul, expressed sympathy for a grieving people, and expressed a desire for a peaceful resolution to the conflict….what part of this is "bad" or "unChristian" again?

None of it. I’d say describing Arafat as a charismatic leader who struggled to win independence and a towering figure for his people is off base politically, though certainly not un-Christian either

Of course I admit I think Christianity would be better off with Bethlehem on Israel’s side of the wall rather than Arafat’s too.

53 posted on 11/11/2004 8:09:57 AM PST by SJackson ( Bush is as free as a bird, He is only accountable to history and God, Ra'anan Gissin)
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To: Blue Scourge
Don't accuse me of being anti-catholic it is simply a criticism of their policies.

Naw, don't worry. Your just confused as to why a church that always preaches love and peace would say such nice things about a terrorist. You are not alone!
54 posted on 11/11/2004 8:10:04 AM PST by Edgerunner (The left ain't right. Hand me that launch pickle...)
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To: MarcoPolo
Please, do enlighten us. What is the difference in getting prayed out of Purgatory and the way to "get out of hell?"

There is no way to "get out of hell." That's one big difference.

After we die, we are juedged. If we are found lacking we get thrown into hell and that's the end of that.

If we are holy and pure and without any attachment to sin in our lives, we enter Heaven directly.

If we are without unrepented mortal sin and yet retain some impurity, some attachment to sin, we undergo a cleansing process which enables us to enter God's presence. Nothing impure can enter God's presence.

This process of removing our impurities is called purgation. Anyone undergoing this transformation is destinied for Heaven. They have been judged and found to be a saint.

SD

55 posted on 11/11/2004 8:11:15 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: jb6
Just upholds my view that the Vatican is morally bankrupt. Will he morn Saddam's execution too? Did he mourn the Iotola Khomani's death?

I guess it depends on whether you think Jesus meant for us to love our enemies, or if He was just bluffing.

None of us is worthy for eternal life.

SD

56 posted on 11/11/2004 8:12:47 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Little Ray

"YES! (Don't have much faith in their ability to attack, but I wouldn't want to be the assassins running up against them...)"

People who got stopped while attempting to shoot the Pope - Zero

People who shot the Pope - One

Not a great batting average so far ...


57 posted on 11/11/2004 8:13:40 AM PST by RS (Just because they are out to get him doesn't mean he's not guilty)
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To: SoothingDave

What scripture talks about that? I've read the whole thing and I don't remember that at all. (I'm being serious here. Don't take that as sarcasm because it isn't meant that way.)


58 posted on 11/11/2004 8:14:15 AM PST by MarcoPolo
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To: Blue Scourge

[Blue Scourge]
> I'm very disappointed in the Vatican on this one. Perhaps
> some of the Catholics here can enlighten me as to why the
> Vatican seems to keep ending up on the wrongside of alot of
> events lately.

SD covered this one thoroughly, but here's my $0.02 worth:

I'm not terribly thrilled at the vigor behind the Vatican's eulogy of Arafat (though I *do* harbor doubts about the translation of the word "illustrious... either it's a mistake, or they're using it in the original, "pure" definition of "highly visible and representative of a cause"). But the Holy Father knows that Arafat (monstrous though his consistent actions were) still has a soul, created by God, and that it would not be a cause for rejoicing to see ANYONE damned to Hell. Of *course* the Holy Father is going to pray for Arafat's soul... but this "sound byte" rips the Church's views to shreds, by its very brevity.

The Church holds that any deceased person will face God, and will be made aware of everything they've done--right, wrong, immediate, remote, or what-have-you. Those who are saved will know--FULLY--the horror they've committed by their sins, and they will grieve fully. In Purgatory (if it's necessary for that individual), they will expiate their wrongs by terrible suffering and by their honest, new-found grief. It's no bad reflection on the Holy Father, who knows the value of souls far better than most, to pray that even this twisted child of God has a chance to be saved.

If Arafat is damned, then he's damned. It's understandable for us to long for justice to be done... and it will be done. But it's not right fo anyone to wish ill on another. Arafat was a twisted, pathetic little man who hapened to be fed an ideology of hate--from the baby bottle, on up. He happened to ascend to a position where his twistedness caused horrible suffering, and enabled him to inspire horrendous crimes. But we do not fight even this pathetic flesh and blood (of Arafat); we fight principalities and powers of darkness (cf. Ephesians 6). We should not wish the eternal destruction of their poor, wretched, evil-infected prisoners of war, such as Arafat.

Pray for the safety of Israel. Fight those who do evil, and kill them if necessary; but do not stain yourself with the sin of wishing evil on another.


59 posted on 11/11/2004 8:18:44 AM PST by paladinan (Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
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To: SJackson
I’d say describing Arafat as a charismatic leader who struggled to win independence and a towering figure for his people is off base politically, though certainly not un-Christian either

Considering the intended audience is the Pali people, saying bad things about their deceased leader would not be very smart. The Pope always, always wants to build bridges.

SD

60 posted on 11/11/2004 8:19:28 AM PST by SoothingDave
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