Posted on 11/17/2009 11:13:30 AM PST by Gamecock
The Southern Province of the North American Old Catholic Church calls on bishops of the Roman sect to abandon their devisive and hate-filled attitude toward lesbian and gay people. The Roman bishops began a meeting on Monday (11/16/2009) in Baltimore, MD, and are expected to issue a major "pastoral letter" against equal rights for gay people.
"It is like they are telling their brothers and sisters: Thou Shalt Not Love," says Archbishop Wynn Wagner, the Regionary Bishop of the Southern Province USA of the North American Old Catholic Church (NAOCC). "They have forgotten the message of love, in their rush toward a notion of post-modernism."
The North American Old Catholic Church has called the month of November a Month of Prayer for those hurt by the Roman bishops' actions. The Old Catholic Church -- being closer to the ancient teachings of Christ -- does not consider gender or sexual orientation to be an impediment to any sacrament, including ordination and marraige.
"We call on adherents of the Roman sect to ignore the pronouncements of the later-day Pharisees," the archbishop continued. "They certainly don't speak for traditional Catholicism. Remember to pray for those bishops and those they hurt."
You have one-worlder trolls on here pretending to be decent Protestants to give both sides a bad name!
Oh, the hugh manatee!
Why don’t you read about the Old Catholics before you post your musings? The Old Catholics left the Church after the Vatican I Council in 1870, which formally defined papal infallibility. I guess what happened- 140 years later, they ordain women and accept homosexuality. It took the Anglicans hundreds of years to get to that point.
You want fascism and global authority, start at Princeton.
Oh, and if you want a more-Calvinist-than-Calvin storefront sect founded by a segregationist pig, move a bit southward to Willow Grove, PA.
Your ancestors likely wore “dresses” some time in the past.
No, no, no. You got it all wrong. The Bishop of Rome is the guy in WHITE.
I suppose old, caucasin males can all kinda look the same.
Yeah, you said that already.
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, in a cassock and Prada footwear:
Segregationist pig draped in a stunning purple evening gown with plum sash and an air of his own self-righteousness...
I’m afraid it is you who is insulting Roman Catholics by your wholly misguided assertion that this fringe group has anything to do with the Catholic Church (I happen to have an earned Ph.D. - in religion & theology, though I choose not to advertise it after my name)
I’m afraid it is you who is insulting Roman Catholics by your wholly misguided assertion that this fringe group has anything to do with the Catholic Church (I happen to have an earned Ph.D. - in religion & theology, though I choose not to advertise it after my name)
The vast majority of Freepers reading this thread, even if they have disagreements with the Church, would side with the real Catholics on this one. I mean come on. This is the thread they pick to start blasting away??!!
Freegards
Coolidge and the Republicans rejected the League of Nations and forced the U.S. to reject the treaty
Maybe this is why we see so many liberal Roman Catholics on FR who call themselves "conservative."
They don't know the meaning of the word.
Ding!
If these are some of the folks who oppose the Catholic Church, the Body of Christ, the Church established by Jesus and headed by the successor of Peter, we must be doin’ all right.
Never mind that Calvinist indoctrination gave birth to the fascist notion of world governance, look at them papists over there!
Calvin Coolidge was heir to an attitude of Know Nothingism.
The Immigration Act of 1924 baring Eastern and Southern Europeans (read Catholic) and Japanese sums up the inner Coolidge nicely.
The bigotry he expressed by signing the Act seems to be inculcated in his inner most beliefs.
Calvinist Presbyterian fascist Woodrow Wilson INVENTED the League of Nations, traveled to Paris to attend at its birth, but could not sell it to the Senate. It nonetheless was born and lives on today in its successor form: the United Nations.
That same inculcation rears its devilish face in the segregationist attitudes of Gresham Machen.
So many RC denominations it's difficult to keep track.
“Do you know the difference between political posturing and political action?”
Yes, liars posture for political gain, much like old Calvin Coolidge.
To bad his Calvinism glossed over that whole Father of Lies part in theology.
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