Posted on 10/18/2018 6:00:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Pope Francis returned to one of his favorite topics this week, preaching against Christians who are “rigid” and resistant to change.
In his homily at morning Mass at his Santa Marta residence in the Vatican on Tuesday, the pope compared modern Christians hung up on doctrine, morals, or the liturgy with the “hypocritical” Pharisees and doctors of the law of Jesus’ time
People followed Jesus because he was “attractive, touched hearts, made himself loved,” Francis said, unlike the Pharisees who scrutinized everything “under a magnifying glass.”
*snip*
The pope, in fact, gave a series of homilies sharply criticizing those who “accuse” others, particularly bishops, of wrongdoing, comparing them to Satan and his tactics.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal nuncio who released a bombshell report in late August accusing high-ranking prelates, including the pope, of mishandling the sex abuse crisis, took the pope’s words as aimed at himself.
Pope Francis “has compared his silence to that of Jesus in Nazareth and before Pilate, and compared me to the great accuser, Satan, who sows scandal and division in the Church — though without ever uttering my name,” the archbishop wrote in a recent 4-page statement.
“If he had said: ‘Viganò lied,’ he would have challenged my credibility while trying to affirm his own,” he continued. “Instead, he put in place a subtle slander against me — slander being an offense he has often compared to the gravity of murder. Indeed, he did it repeatedly, in the context of the celebration of the most Holy Sacrament, the Eucharist, where he runs no risk of being challenged by journalists.”
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In many places of the Bible, it warns us against not straying from the path of righteousness. So what’s the deal with this guy?
Yes. It all started with the nominalism and voluntarism that medieval Christians put forth - this led to the Reformation and the Enlightenment, which led to Cultural Marxism and Post-Modernism.
Nominalism: absolutes are mere names we humans put on the world
Voluntarism: God’s will is chosen by Him constantly, so it’s changing and capricious
Both of these concepts leave us in a world ON OUR OWN - to interpret and re-interpret morality, purpose, and reality.
The Pope should be fighting against this situation, and is not.
At the core of this Pope’s calumny is the fact that the homosexuals, who dream of changing three millennium of Judeo-Christian consensus that condemns their perverse, predatory behavior, will never willingly or gracefully release their grip on the Catholic Church. This Argentine deviant is their leader and champion.
> People followed Jesus because he was “attractive, touched hearts, made himself loved...” <
Man oh man this Pope does not know his scripture-—Isaiah 53 for one:
“Chapter 53:1-3
The prophet, complaining of unbelief, gives reasons for the shame of the cross
1 Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah 53:1-3 (ASV)
So, practicing Christians who strive to conform to the Word are naughty people, according to Frankie.
“Woe unto those who call Good Evil, and Evil Good!!” - Jesus Christ.
“People followed Jesus because he was ‘attractive, touched hearts, made himself loved,’
I believe Pope Francis is only exposing what has been in the whited sepulchre the whole time. Two questions:
1. Who with an ounce of decency would follow this pope given what has come to light?
2. Who would align with a church that demands allegiance to this pope or any other based on the institutional depravity?
Forgive me if this is a caucus thread, I forgot to check before typing out my comment.
Revelation 18:2-5
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Lord bless,
Refreshed
I read somewhere that the Synod report will attempt to legitimize homosexuality, divorce, and alternative families. One commentator suggested that this will be an attempt by the Church hierarchy to assuage their own guilt over their sexual sins and their subsequent cover-ups.
However, it appears that, at least in the USA, the Faithful, who write the checks, are quickly becoming completely fed-up with the dissembling hierarchy, those who preach piety but commit carnal sins and sins of omission, thus undermining the Mystical Body.
I am sorry that some good priests, religious, and prelates are going to be caught in the coming deluge of purification. Those who have the courage to speak the unvarnished truth should escape, however.
These are the “whitewashed tombs,” not the “rigid” Catholics who believe in and seek to defend the Immutable Truth.
It isn't.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Matthew 5:18
This is so off base as to be frightening. The sin of the Pharisees was hypocrisy. They followed their own man made traditions as a way to get around the law. They knowingly broke the law and relied on ritual and sacrifice to save them. Jesus called them out on it - "I desire mercy not sacrifice". "These people praise me with their lips but their hearts are far from me." Thus, Jesus condemned the Pharisees for ignoring doctrine and morals not for upholding them. If Francis really believes his statement then how does he decide which parts of biblical teaching to uphold and which teachings are too "rigid"? When he exhorts people to care for the poor and downtrodden and to be hospitable and love your neighbor is he just being rigid, such that we can ignore him? This guy is a real train wreck and I see nothing to suggest he has the spiritual discernment to rightly divide the whole counsel of God.
People followed Jesus because he was “attractive, touched hearts, made himself loved,” Francis said, unlike the Pharisees who scrutinized everything “under a magnifying glass.”
What did John the Baptist preach?
What did Jesus preach?
What did the Apostles preach?
What does the Holy Spirit preach?
What should We be preaching?
WHAT SHOULD THE POPE PREACH?
Anyone know the answer?
This idiot has jumped the shark.
But remarkably, somehow these words don’t seem to apply to the Kavanaugh confirmation circus.
Weird......
“The slimeball faux Pope speaketh.”
I don’t know if you are Catholic or not, but I agree with this characterization (although it contradicts his other statement about insulting someone). My only question is why Catholics call him the fake pope. He was elected by a lawfully assembly of the Cardinals, wasn’t he? If so, then he is a successor of Peter according to Catholic dogma, right? If that is the case, then he “has full, supreme and universal power over the Church. And he can always exercise this power freely.” Vatican II.
He’s the real pope, I think, and I think that has real-world implications for the catholic institution, doesn’t it? Conservative catholics today remind me of the Zell Miller type Democrats, who eventually have to get out of the institution because it is going a completely different direction.
The pope, I was taught (I was an altar boy) is infalable. I always wondered about that.
he did it repeatedly, in the context of the celebration of the most Holy Sacrament, the Eucharist, where he runs no risk of being challenged by journalists.”
The author has ears to hear..............................
While we’re at, get those pesky 10 Commandments out of the Bible. >s<
Christ crucified. See the tagline.
That whole “Jesus” thingie?
Yeah, well, nevermind.
- Commie Pope Dude
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