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1 posted on 11/12/2007 10:30:08 AM PST by NYer
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Don Aldo needs some serious re-education on ecumenism.


2 posted on 11/12/2007 10:31:31 AM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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"Please kick our asses"
3 posted on 11/12/2007 10:34:03 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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Perhaps what really needs to happen is a solid, clear Papal statement regarding what ecumenicalism really should accomplish.

It is said that the Catholics and the Muslim worship the same God. Does this mean they can worship in the same church? Does this mean the Muslim and Catholic are brothers in faith? We know the answer, but some in the RCC seem to be missing the clear answer.

As long as it is left up in the air, the more of this thing will happen. The more this happens, the faster the change will occur, until it will either force a schism or it will cause a Jihad. Well, the Jihad is coming, but the question is how many Muslim converts from the RCC will be part of it.


4 posted on 11/12/2007 10:38:26 AM PST by Ottofire (For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God)
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Wouldn’t this constitute a profane use of the church?


5 posted on 11/12/2007 10:47:19 AM PST by trimom
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“It’s useless to speak of religious dialogue and then bang the door on their face. Pope John Paul II addressed them as, ‘dear Muslim brothers’. How can we close our church doors to them?”

My Italian is not so good - but I think this loosely translated means: “We are afraid of these Mother F’ers and don’t wanna no trouble.”


6 posted on 11/12/2007 10:51:24 AM PST by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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A Catholic Church (in Venice Italy) Turns Into A Mosque (each Friday)

Poor priests everywhere are losing their minds. They are in complete control of our churches and buildings and they are making a mocking sacrilege of them. They did not build these churches; they should not have so much control over them.

About a year ago, I read that Cardinal Maida (Detroit) was handing over a beautiful church named St. Therese to Muslims. I called to complain and of course a woman responded. She said, "There will be prayer there." I said, "but they are not praying to Jesus. It is like you are denying Jesus." Of course the Spokeswoman could care less what I thought about anything.

Many of our beautiful churches were built by immigrants that worked all day and then worked all evening building the churches. Now the priests and bishops are just wrecking, selling, and desecrating these beautiful churches and the Vatican could care less.

7 posted on 11/12/2007 10:56:57 AM PST by GinaLolaB
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The population of Venice sure must have changed since my visit 30 years ago.

ML/NJ

10 posted on 11/12/2007 11:20:43 AM PST by ml/nj
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So, will he also allow in Satan-worshippers? Aside from the “Muslim” ones, of course....


11 posted on 11/12/2007 11:32:35 AM PST by Master Shake
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...For the rest, I am older than the bishop and been his professor in the seminary too. Even if had prohibited me, I wouldn't be obliged to obey him," Don Aldo is firm in his resolve.

Ya know, somehow when I was learning the Catholic Faith Monsignor Gatta failed to tell me obedience was based on age. Somehow he passed on the crazy idea that obedience was based on the authority of the person being obeyed.
12 posted on 11/12/2007 11:35:21 AM PST by Talking_Mouse (O Lord, destroy Islam by converting the Muslims to Christianity.)
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"...demands Luca Zaia, the vice president of the Federation of a few right wing politicians..."

A little slant there?

I wonder who's the President of the Federation of a Few Right Wing Politicians?

13 posted on 11/12/2007 11:57:36 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Join the FFRWP.)
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**A Catholic Church (in Venice Italy) Turns Into A Mosque (each Friday)**

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!


21 posted on 11/12/2007 6:11:56 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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I honestly see no problem. The building is no longer a church by the simple fact it has been used in this manner. I hope the parishoners are not giving money for the maintenance of this mosque.


22 posted on 11/12/2007 7:41:57 PM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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I have to wonder - would a Seventh Day Adventist congregation be allowed to use the Church building on Saturday?


24 posted on 11/12/2007 10:01:44 PM PST by Celtman (It's never right to do wrong to do right.)
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"Christ lives in Muslims too."

But if this were true, wouldn't they be Christians? Am I missing something here?

25 posted on 11/12/2007 11:26:41 PM PST by Zero Sum (Marxism is the opiate of the masses.)
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And the Abomination that Causes Desolation is in the Temple...


28 posted on 11/13/2007 4:07:31 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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