Posted on 07/02/2008 3:28:00 AM PDT by Gamecock
Pope John XXIII believed Padre Pio, the hugely popular Capuchin monk who was canonised in 2002, was a fraud who had "incorrect" relations with women and whose soul was in danger....
Sergio Luzzatto...has also found documents in the Vatican archives suggesting that Padre Pio may have faked his stigmata, the marks of the wounds of Christ, with acid. Vatican officials say both allegations are already well known....
Followers of Padre Pio believe he exuded "the odour of sanctity", had the gift of bilocation (being in two places at once), healed the sick and could prophesy the future.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
I suppose it will do me no good to point out the irony of FR Catholics (notorious for their support of evolution and higher criticism) defending the supernatural phenomena associated with the "anti-modern, medieval" Padre Pio. Do any of you suppose that Padre Pio believed in JEPD, or that Noah's Flood was a myth adapted from the Enuma Elish or that Adam and Eve were were not real people? Yet here you are, Biblical skeptics that you are, defending the miracles of a man who died forty years ago.
Do you think you do your cause any good refusing to answer questions but responding instead with childish insults? If you're going to complain about a thread being anti-Catholic, then respond to the charges; don't just show up to call the posters childish names. And making fun of King James English (the religious language of the traditional American Heartland culture) sounds like something Christopher Hitchens or Al Sharpton would do. If you aren't going to respond, then please ignore "anti-Catholic" threads. Your childish name-calling and attempts at ridicule simply make Catholics seem like another urban liberal immigrant "minority group" that screams "bigot" everytime it gets a splinter.
And finally, as for the fact that Protestants continue to splinter, that is because they regard truth to be more important than mere political unity. Your own Church is in a mess because it has exalted political unity above all other considerations.
“And finally, as for the fact that Protestants continue to splinter, that is because they regard truth to be more important than mere political unity.Protesting too much here...the article was written some time ago and the motivation is obvious to all seeking truth. If you want to launch attacks unimpeded, try another forum.
The Church has withstood the Ages and still stands as Christ stated.
I had heard/read (though I forget where) that they were not simply "suddenly gone" but that they scabbed over in his last few days, and the scabs fell off shortly after his death (within hours), leaving behind no scar whatsoever. That, at least in my opinion, means more than them simply disappearing.
Are you familiar with the story of St. Pio?
Indeed, the odor of roses was present at different times in different places.
This article is a fraud.
do you really believe that nonsense? that padre Pio burned holes through his hands and feet for 50 years with acids? and then, all of the acid burns just dissappeared a few days before he died, along with the holes?
that is ridiculous
You need to read the biography of Padre Pio by Ruffin. It relates the stories of bi-location in helping World War II navigators. Nothing to laugh at — plenty of back up facts in the book.
No, I don't suppose he did. Yet I don't either. I suspect that quite a number of Catholics (and certainly a greater proportion on FR than in general) don't believe those things either. (A side point: Denial of Adam and Eve was explicitly denounced by Pius XII in his encyclical letter "Humani Generis.")
Denial of miracles (both ancient and modern) is a trait of the modernists.
whatever...yawn
even so, that is evidence of some sort of miracle healing.
My, aren’t you touchy today!
Padre Pio never tried to reword the Bible.
ROFLMTO
No more so than you were trying to be incendiary in post 75. But at least “touchy” and “incendiary” both end with the same letter.
Which words?
Of course. Mystical healing of mystical wounds.
Exactly. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people saw and touched Padre Pio’s hands. But yes, it could have been self-inflicted over a half century. However, it is IMPOSSIBLE to self inflict the SAME WOUND for fifty years without scarring.
Adding “alone” to Romans 3:28.
Existing for 2000 years really doesn't prove anything. Judaism has been around for 3320 years yet most Catholics think it's a false religion. And again, the notion that remaining in a single communion is more important than truth itself is why the Catholic Church today is rotting from the head down.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Catholics are very liberal when it comes to the Bible, and Catholic apologetics often invoke blasphemous higher critical theories to disprove sola scriptura, so again, a rejection of ss is identified with higher criticism. Many Catholic bibles with the imprimatur of the bishops incorporate higher critical theories in their commentary. And unfortunately, Catholic FReepers tend to be every bit as liberal on the Bible as other Catholics.
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