Posted on 10/08/2018 3:35:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The devil is alive and well and working overtime to undermine the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis says.
In fact, the pope is so convinced that Satan is to blame for the sexual abuse crisis and deep divisions racking the Church that he has asked Catholics around the world to recite a special prayer every day in October to try to beat him back.
“(The Church must be) saved from the attacks of the malign one, the great accuser and at the same time be made ever more aware of its guilt, its mistakes, and abuses committed in the present and the past,” Francis said in a message on Sept. 29.
Since he was elected in 2013, Francis has made clear that he believes the devil to be real. In a document in April on holiness in the modern world, Francis mentioned the devil more than a dozen times.
“We should not think of the devil as a myth, a representation, a symbol, a figure of speech or an idea. This mistake would lead us to let down our guard, to grow careless and end up more vulnerable,” he wrote in the document.
The Church has recently been hit by one sexual abuse scandal after another, from Germany, to the United States, to Chile. At the same time, a deepening polarization between conservatives and liberals in the Church has played out on social media.
Francis’ use of the term “the great accuser” to describe Satan hit a raw nerve with one of the pope’s harshest conservative critics, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Vatican’s former ambassador to Washington.
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The Lord listens to the prayers and petitions of the Saints as per scripture - i.e. - Wedding at Cana.
Yes...
The Catholic Church is Satans greatest work of deception.
Papa Franky best go look in the mirror - and then study Vatican II archives, since both he and that nefarious Council are at the root of all these scandals. If not for Vatican II, the Modernists (liberals), Communists and Freemasons would not have been able to breach the gates.
If not for the Modernists infiltrators - with their libertine impulses, heresies, liturgical innovations, and overarching goal of bringing the Revolution of 1917 into the Catholic Church - the sodomites would never had achieved access to the seminaries.
While speaking of mass excommunications, can the Pope excommunicate himself? hopefully ‘yes.’
There. Fixed it.
Has the Vatican said anything good about President Trump yet??
This sleeze bag, heretic “pope” needs to look in the mirror to see the devil.
Pope blames devil for Church divisions, scandals, seeks angel’s help.
I wish him a lot of luck and hope he makes the connection.
Is this for real?
No leadership from a so called Pope!
I’m wondering how many of the Popes actually knew Bible Doctrine? Very evident this one doesn’t . Every time he says something I go : where the hell did he get that?
( probably answered my own question, hell)
....Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from the evil one....
...that's the version i generally use because it quantifies Satan farther than the generic "evil"
>>The devil huh? So, is Francis throwing his good buddy Satan under the bus? That can’t turn out well for Frankie.<<
Frankie’s right. The devil made him do it. He’s the devil’s puppet and everyone can see it.
>>IMHO, Francis is the devil!<<
Well he certainly appears to be possessed, that’s for sure. Someone needs to get a few of the top exorcists to work on him, and soon, before he finalizes the destruction of the Church.
Satan is a fallen angel?
>> HE needs to get back in the Book and see WHAT THE BOOK SAYS!!! It is by FAITH, plus nothing!! Nothing else is required.<<
Not according to James.
Very much so.
This Pope is the psycho Pope. The HomoGlobo supporting Pope. What a disaster.
This Pope
>>Satan is a fallen angel?<<
Lucifer, the angel of light!
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