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Next Pope to be Portuguese?
The Portugese News ^
| November 6, 2004
Posted on 11/05/2004 7:37:55 PM PST by Land of the Irish
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Other features in his favour include the excellent relations he enjoys with bishops in Africa and South America, along with support received from so-called intellectual French Catholics and modernist wings of the Church.
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To: Land of the Irish
I would be very happy about that. The Blessed Mother said at Fatima that Portugal would always preserve the Faith. Maybe this is what she meant.
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posted on
11/05/2004 7:40:51 PM PST
by
vrwcagent0498
(Mark Levin and Ann Coulter are my patron saints.)
To: vrwcagent0498
Okay---
I will NEVER comment on a thread without reading the whole thing!
Sympathetic on Modernism. Does NOT sound good.
My apologies to my fellow Freeper Catholics.
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posted on
11/05/2004 7:42:39 PM PST
by
vrwcagent0498
(Mark Levin and Ann Coulter are my patron saints.)
To: Land of the Irish
The next Pope will be Italian.
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posted on
11/05/2004 7:44:04 PM PST
by
sinkspur
("It is a great day to be alive. I appreciate your gratitude." God Himself.)
To: sinkspur
The next Pope will be Italian.Will this Italian be a Hindu or an Anglican?
To: Land of the Irish
My only immediate response is annoyance at the use of the phrase 'Portuguese Church'. Why do people insist on calling it the American Church, the French Church, etc. For goodness sakes, is it too much to write 'the Church in Portugal', 'the Church in America', 'the Church in France'? Of course, people will respond "thats just semantics" but it really is an important distinction.
To: Lilllabettt
"Why do people insist on calling it the American Church, the French Church, etc."
Its a little more than semantics. Amchurch has its USCCB, which voted overwhelmingly to leave it up to the individual bishops to violate canon law and give Holy Communion to public facilitators of abortion, to turn Ascension Thursday into Ascension Sunday, etc.
Canada has its own CCCB, which makes its own rules, etc.
Prior to VC II, Catholic meant universal. New Church, however, defines Catholic as diversified.
Heck, nowadays you can even be catholic while remaining outside the Catholic Church.
To: Land of the Irish
Oh, Canadia has its own too? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.The USCCB and these other council thingys get lost fast in the paperwork. They run the Church like its some kind of corporation.
I'm not too familiar with corporate politics. But in my experience, when something goes wrong in the 'branch office,' nobody takes responsibility. And because its a bureaucratic mess, everybody gets blamed, and nobody is held accountable.
To: Lilllabettt
Yes,there is a subtle and beautiful distinction between the Church in the United States,or America etc.,and the American Church or the Canadian Church.
The one connotes a unified,universal Church wherever it is located,it conforms with our creed,one can recognize that the Church is One,Holy,Catholic and Apostolic.
The other defines the church by its location,not good nor does it seem true.
To: Land of the Irish
Thanks for warning us. You can be sure when the unCatholic Reporter starts testing the waters by floating names of a possible successor to John Paul II,their ccandidate will not bear much resemblance to anything Catholic.
How too bad that in order to get the drums rolling with their own readership,they also have to expose their preferences to those of us thy consider the enemy.
I try to remember to thank God for the internet on a frequent basis,and for Free Republic and the network of informed Catholics we have been able to connect with across the miles.
To: Land of the Irish
"Other features in his favour include the excellent relations he enjoys with bishops in Africa and South America, along with support received from so-called intellectual French Catholics and modernist wings of the Church."
To receive the support of the French intellectual class, a future pope must surely jetison all traditional positions and extol the virtues of modern life. This would of course mean allowing priests to marry, permitting contraception and opening up the priesthood to women once celebacy, sexuality and ministry have been redefined "to suit modern tastes". A whole new ball game and one which for more people will put into question the illegitamacy of modern papacies.
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posted on
11/06/2004 2:32:57 AM PST
by
Wessex
To: vrwcagent0498
Well who, pray tell, is responsible for permitting the Fatima sacrilege?
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posted on
11/06/2004 3:30:30 AM PST
by
JesseHousman
(Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
To: sinkspur
What makes you so sure?
To: Land of the Irish
He's 68
now. Furthermore, this
is a Portuguese publication.....and I've never seen him mentioned elsewhere.
Then there's the old saying "he who goes into the conclave a pope, comes out a cardinal" or words to that effect.
I'll bet my next pay check that he doesn't succeed JPII.
To: Land of the Irish
A notable disadvantage is the fact that D. Policarpo is a smoker, which could be looked upon negatively in the English-speaking Catholic world
What? Are thee going to be a series of Papal debates and an endless stream of Gallup polls, too? The English-speaking world needs to get a grip.
To: Land of the Irish
My prayers are for Count Christoph von Schoenborn of Austria - orthodox and royalty!
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posted on
11/06/2004 12:33:26 PM PST
by
kjvail
(Judica me Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta)
To: sinkspur
Nah! The next pope will be Castrillon Cardinal de Hoyos or an African whose family converted from Islam and will have an attitude about Modernism too.
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posted on
11/08/2004 11:17:46 AM PST
by
BlackElk
(Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
To: vrwcagent0498
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posted on
02/07/2005 6:23:22 PM PST
by
donbosco74
("Men and devils make war on me in this great city." (Paris) --St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort)
To: Land of the Irish
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posted on
02/07/2005 6:24:52 PM PST
by
donbosco74
("Men and devils make war on me in this great city." (Paris) --St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort)
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