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Gay Episcopal Bishop to Preach at San Francisco Catholic Parish
Catholic Culture ^ | 11/22/11

Posted on 11/23/2011 11:11:08 AM PST by marshmallow

A notoriously 'gay-friendly' parish in San Francisco has invited an openly homosexual Episcopalian cleric to lead an Advent Vespers service.

Most Holy Redeemer parish asked Bishop Otis Charles, a retired Episcopalian prelate, to lead the November 30 service. After serving as the Bishop of Utah from 1971 to 1993, he publicly announced that he is homosexual. Divorced from the mother of his 5 children, he solemnized a same-sex union in 2004.


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To: CynicalBear

2,341 posted on 12/03/2011 6:38:49 PM PST by narses
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To: CynicalBear

Amen


2,342 posted on 12/03/2011 6:45:09 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: metmom
The Catholic Church says those Protestants who were born into their error and don't know any better may be saved as a result of their invincible ignorance. You keep talking about having gotten saved by leaving the Catholic Church. But any Catholic who leaves for Protestantism is guilty of the sin of schism and heresy loses his or her salvation. http://www.keyway.ca/htm2009/20090808.htm As Vatican II teaches in Lumen Gentium: 14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism(124) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved.
2,343 posted on 12/03/2011 6:47:40 PM PST by rzman21
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To: D-fendr
I really don’t see how anyone can read Acts or the Church Epistles, the Council of Jerusalem, etc. and not see the Church with authority and hierarchy.

They were fellow elders together.

There is nothing in that Council of Jerusalem which even nearly resembles the RCC as it is today.

The Holy Spirit through Paul lays out some very specific qualifications for elder and deacon, but nowhere is there any indication of any kind of centralized authority controlling all the churches. They were separate entities, completely capable of being independent and self-sufficient as travel and communication in those days precluded the kind of massive conglomeration of churches being controlled by a centralizes authority we see today.

In addition, it is also a safety valve should error creep into the church, then the whole thing doesn't implode into heresy, there's always a remnant which will survive to pass on the truth.

2,344 posted on 12/03/2011 6:48:17 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: D-fendr; Jvette
Do not add to Scripture.

You mean like Rome did at Trent?(grin)

Catholic translations prior to Luther spoke of faith alone at Romans 3:28. Hence, the Nuremberg Bible of 1483 had "allein durch den glauben," while the Italian Bibles of Geneva in 1476 and even 1538 had "per sola fede."

According to Mark Reasoner's book " Romans in Full Circle," said the trend began with Origen, who used the phrase ek mones pisteos in his commentary on the verse, So it seems "Origen originates the famous 'sola fide' phrase at 3:28" [Reasoner 2005:26]. Later on, Reasoner notes that at least ten exegetes between Origen and Luther also used the "faith alone" phrase.

Quotes from Luther on this

“If your papist wishes to make a great fuss about the word sola (alone), say this to him: "Dr. Martin Luther will have it so, and he says that a papist and a donkey are the same thing." …For we are not going to be students and disciples of the papists. Rather, we will become their teachers and judges. For once, we also are going to be proud and brag, with these blockheads; and just as Paul brags against his mad raving saints, I will brag against these donkeys of mine! Are they doctors? So am I. Are they scholars? So am I. Are they preachers? So am I. Are they theologians? So am I. Are they debaters? So am I. Are they philosophers? So am I. Are they logicians? So am I. Do they lecture? So do I. Do they write books? So do I.”

“I will go even further with my boasting: I can expound the psalms and the prophets, and they cannot. I can translate, and they cannot. I can read the Holy Scriptures, and they cannot. I can pray, they cannot. Coming down to their level, “I can use their rhetoric and philosophy better than all of them put together. Plus I know that not one of them understands his Aristotle. If any one of them can correctly understand one preface or chapter of Aristotle, I will eat my hat! No, I am not overdoing it, for I have been schooled in and have practiced their science from my youth. I recognize how deep and broad it is. They, too, are well aware that I can do everything they can do. Yet they treat me as a stranger in their discipline, these incurable fellows, as if I had just arrived this morning and had never seen or heard what they teach and know. How they do brilliantly parade around with their science, teaching me what I outgrew twenty years ago! To all their noise and shouting I sing, with the harlot, "I have known for seven years that horseshoe nails are iron."

“Let this be the answer to your first question. Please do not give these donkeys any other answer to their useless braying about that word sola than simply this: "Luther will have it so, and he says that he is a doctor above all the doctors of the pope." Let it rest there. I will from now on hold them in contempt, and have already held them in contempt, as long as they are the kind of people (or rather donkeys) that they are.”

2,345 posted on 12/03/2011 6:51:07 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7

You say no one knows where Mary’s tomb was. I beg to differ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary’s_Tomb


2,346 posted on 12/03/2011 6:51:07 PM PST by rzman21
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To: Jvette
Rom. 3:28-30, "For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law Hebrews 10: 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Rom. 11:6, "But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace."

Gal. 2:16, "nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified."

Don’t try to make some law that says baptism is necessary for salvation.

2,347 posted on 12/03/2011 6:51:22 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: RnMomof7

2,348 posted on 12/03/2011 6:52:20 PM PST by narses
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To: metmom

The council of Jerusalem doesn’t indicate “any kind of centralized authority”?

Ok.

Like I said, I can’t imagine not seeing this, but some do, IMHO, for the reasons I stated earlier as well.


2,349 posted on 12/03/2011 6:52:54 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Jvette
He did that by founding His Church.

He did that by giving us Scripture.....

2 Timothy 3:14-17 14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

2,350 posted on 12/03/2011 6:53:43 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: MHGinTN; Amityschild; Captain Beyond; Cvengr; DvdMom; firebrand; GiovannaNicoletta; HossB86; ...

I don’t really have any apology for writing starkly about outrageously stark blasphemous nonsense in the RC system or any other system.

It’s not a small thing to worship Mary.

I want to do everything I can to cry such an alarm rather than have someone blame me on judgment day because I didn’t make a bigger issue of it to try and cause them to think more seriously about it; more soberly about it.

It’s not just another ‘theological issue’ to calmly blather about.

You also seem to have failed to notice that I don’t get fierce with INDIVIDUALS posting assaults on me anywhere near their fierceness against me. I tweak back at them but mostly to let them know that their junk has not gone unnoticed.

Nevertheless, suit yourself. I never have expected I’d win any popularity contests with you. You have often seemed to have very little clue about what makes me tick; my values; priorities; strengths or weaknesses. However, your assumptions are sometimes entertaining—particularly to those who know me best.


2,351 posted on 12/03/2011 6:59:16 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: narses
Colossians 2:11-14 11In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands.This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

2,352 posted on 12/03/2011 6:59:22 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: mas cerveza por favor; RnMomof7
>> You have been provided testimony on the Assumption of Mary from St John of Damascus<<

Yeah, and Mohammad had vision and ascended into heaven and John Smith had visions and Angels and thousands see Mary in toast.

2,353 posted on 12/03/2011 7:00:00 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: RnMomof7
Mocking me does not change the truth..jesus never gave permission for the NT church to change the JEWISH Canon ... live with it >>The Jews changed their canon at the Synod of Jamnia, some 60 years AFTER Jesus ascended into heaven. Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls suggests the Jews hadn't closed their canon when the Church arose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Jamnia So you are siding against Christ with a Jewish synod that anathematized the same Septuagint scriptures that the Apostle Paul used to prove the divinity of Christ to the Bereans. Kind of ironic. ROME DID NOT CHANGE THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES. HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO CITE THE ANCIENT CANONS. The Council of Carthage decreed in the year 419

Canon 24. (Greek xxvii.) That nothing be read in church besides the Canonical Scripture Item, that besides the Canonical Scriptures nothing be read in church under the name of divine Scripture. But the Canonical Scriptures are as follows: Genesis. Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. Joshua the Son of Nun. The Judges. Ruth. The Kings, iv. books. The Chronicles, ij. books. Job. The Psalter. The Five books of Solomon. The Twelve Books of the Prophets. Isaiah. Jeremiah. Ezechiel. Daniel. Tobit. Judith. Esther. Ezra, ij. books. Macchabees, ij. books. The New Testament. The Gospels, iv. books. The Acts of the Apostles, j. book. The Epistles of Paul, xiv. The Epistles of Peter, the Apostle, ij. The Epistles of John the Apostle, iij. The Epistles of James the Apostle, j. The Epistle of Jude the Apostle, j. The Revelation of John, j. book. Let this be sent to our brother and fellow bishop, Boniface, and to the other bishops of those parts, that they may confirm this canon, for these are the things which we have received from our fathers to be read in church.

The Ethiopian Jews, for example, consider those books you and the Palestinian Jews consider "apocryphal" to be part of the Bible. http://biblescripture.net/Canon.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls#Significance_to_the_Canon_of_the_Bible
2,354 posted on 12/03/2011 7:00:31 PM PST by rzman21
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To: CynicalBear

Faith apart from works does not mean faith alone.

It means that man’s works without faith in Jesus does not and cannot save.

And, it still doesn’t say faith alone.

And, we have a very different view of faith.

My faith is alive and active, not dead as James says in his letter.


2,355 posted on 12/03/2011 7:00:47 PM PST by Jvette
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To: metmom

2,356 posted on 12/03/2011 7:01:17 PM PST by narses
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To: rzman21; metmom
The Catholic Church says those Protestants who were born into their error and don't know any better may be saved as a result of their invincible ignorance.

How nice of them..Sorry we can not say the same thing.. on the day Catholics stand before Christ in judgement He will tell them "I never knew you" ..There will be no exception for 'ignorance "

Jhn 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

2,357 posted on 12/03/2011 7:02:05 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: Quix

My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen

Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.

Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.

Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.

Amen.

She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.

(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)


2,358 posted on 12/03/2011 7:02:47 PM PST by narses
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To: MHGinTN

My, my, my! Are we getting a little personal?


2,359 posted on 12/03/2011 7:04:35 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: RnMomof7

Memorare,
O piissima VirgoMaria,
non esse auditum a saeculo,
quemquam ad tua currentempraesidia,
tua implorantem auxilia,
tua petentem suffragia,
esse derelictum.

Ego tali animatus confidentia,
ad te,
Virgo Virginum, Mater,curro,
ad te venio,
coram te gemens peccator assisto.
Noli,Mater Verbi,
verba mea despicere;
sed audi propitia et exaudi.Amen.


2,360 posted on 12/03/2011 7:05:24 PM PST by narses
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