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Pope Francis decries critics of church as 'friends of the devil'
The Guardian ^ | Wed 20 Feb 2019 | Angela Giuffrida

Posted on 02/22/2019 10:03:53 AM PST by Leaning Right

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To: Romulus

The entire church hierarchy has been hiding and protecting predatory pedophile priests for decades.

Moving them around to unsuspecting parishes so they could prey again.

This is a very sick institution.


21 posted on 02/22/2019 10:21:15 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Leaning Right

It’s clear that so long as he is Pope the Church is not going to get serious about solving these problems.

Leaving those of us who are Catholic with some very difficult choices to ponder.


22 posted on 02/22/2019 10:21:51 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: dangus

> Pope Francis is everything any Catholic-hater ever thought of, wrapped into one person. <

You’re right. And I can’t help but to think that the ultimate winners in all this will be the Muslims.


23 posted on 02/22/2019 10:25:08 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

“... And that’s how the Left operates these days. If you dare to challenge them, you are not just wrong. You are a “hater”.

The truth to the Left is what they want and wish it to be.


24 posted on 02/22/2019 10:25:33 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Leaning Right
The butt screw-supporting pope is just the leader of a disgusting cabal of gay pedophiles. It’s the wealth of this leadership, with its corrupt, evil, blanket ways, that most taints what could be truly decent people following Christ.

As it is, these people fully support this abomination that calls itself a “church,” despite having no recourse to ever change it, by design, as the corrupt Catholic leadership alone is responsible for all leadership decisions.

The lay people are sheep to these wolves, and they appear comfortable in their Hellish ride to the bottom.

25 posted on 02/22/2019 10:25:36 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: blackdog

Watch out for that wall!

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26 posted on 02/22/2019 10:28:21 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: Leaning Right

Well, there you go.

The criticism of improper sexual practices by the clergy should be constant until the Church faces the problem head-on instead of continuing to play it down, cover it up where possible, and make a few symbolic moves only when it’s too blatant to ignore.


27 posted on 02/22/2019 10:32:15 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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> The criticism of improper sexual practices by the clergy should be constant until the Church faces the problem head-on <

Excellent point. If a person is driving a bus towards a cliff, he must constantly be reminded of that until he actually changes direction.

28 posted on 02/22/2019 10:35:54 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

The criticism is to the heirarchy of the church...to all those who hid the homosexuality and the abuse. paid off the victims besides and let those priests continue on the same path....cuz you know damn well that they didn’t stop their “ways” after being caught.


29 posted on 02/22/2019 10:36:04 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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I’d love to see buttons made (for traditional Catholics who want them) that read “I’m A Friend Of The Devil”.

I’d actually consider wearing one to Mass.


30 posted on 02/22/2019 10:41:41 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Leaning Right
Critics of the Church? Or critics of this Pope and his vision for the Church?

Or perhaps the Pope actually means Vigano and any who agree with him.

31 posted on 02/22/2019 10:42:23 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Leaning Right

http://www.ministeringdeliverance.com/deliverance_demons_casting.php

If a demon is present, cast it out in the Name of Jesus
If you know it’s name, use it

It is all too clear what demon has been loosed upon the Church
Go ahead, Oh Vicar of Christ, name the demon
We are all waiting for deliverance.


32 posted on 02/22/2019 10:43:20 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: madison10

Deplorables and devils oh my!


33 posted on 02/22/2019 10:44:45 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Leaning Right
“One cannot live a whole life accusing, accusing, accusing, the church,” he said. People who did, he said, were “the friends, cousins and relatives of the devil”.

Wonder if Francis could look in a mirror and repeat this outlandish statement without breaking into a cynical demented laugh?

34 posted on 02/22/2019 10:44:57 AM PST by zbogwan2
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are “friends of the devil”

Well one of his best friends lives in the Vatican.


35 posted on 02/22/2019 10:46:12 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Leaning Right

those who constantly criticise the Catholic church are “friends of the devil”.


Very obviously he does not read his Bible. Who is the biggest critic of the church?

Rev 2:4 But I have against you that you left your first love.

Rev 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.

Rev 2:20 But I have a few things against you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices.

And there is more in Revelation. Get your Bibles out.

So he is saying Jesus is the devil or friends of the devil. Where have we heard that before?

Mar 3:22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.


36 posted on 02/22/2019 10:50:48 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: zbogwan2

Pope is the captain of the ship sailing up da Nile.


37 posted on 02/22/2019 10:52:35 AM PST by blackdog
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To: Sacajaweau; All; Leaning Right; dangus; daniel1212; metmom; Elsie; ebb tide; Salvation

If only the Deep State was allowed to vote in the US, would anyone on Free Republic ever expect real reform to occur?

That is the actual situation with Catholic parishioners and their hierarchy.


38 posted on 02/22/2019 10:53:37 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Leaning Right

This Catholic believes Pope Francis - and his fellow Modernist, Freemason, and Communist cohorts - to be BFF with old Beelzebub.

I sometimes wonder whether anti-pope Francis and his sodomite pals are celebrating Black Masses in the Sistine Chapel, during which they hold their sadomasochist sodomite orgies. I would not even rule out human sacrifice with this cabal of incorrigibly irreverent, blaspheming, sacrilegious, scandalizing, schism-inducing, heretical reprobates.


39 posted on 02/22/2019 10:56:40 AM PST by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: ConservativeMind

You don’t speak for this traditional Catholic, buddy.


40 posted on 02/22/2019 11:01:37 AM PST by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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