Posted on 02/05/2012 2:58:27 PM PST by marshmallow
Fidel Castro will be received back into the communion of the Roman Catholic Church during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the island in March, the Italian press is reporting. If true, this is a remarkable story — and one that has yet to catch the attention of editors this side of the Atlantic.
On 1 Feb 2012, La Republicca — [Italy’s second largest circulation daily newspaper, La Republicca follows a center-left political line and is strongly anti-clerical; not anti-Catholic per se but a critic of the institutional church] — reported that as death approaches, the octogenarian communist has turned to God for solace.
ABC’s Global Note news blog is the only U.S. general interest publication I have found that has reported this story. It referenced the La Republicca story and said that Castro’s
daughter Alina is quoted as saying “During this last period, Fidel has come closer to religion: he has rediscovered Jesus at the end of his life. It doesn’t surprise me because dad was raised by Jesuits.” The article quotes an unidentified high prelate in the Vatican who is working on the Pope’s Cuba trip: “Fidel is at the end of his strength. Nearly at the end of his life. His exhortations in the party paper Granma, are increasingly less frequent. We know that in this last period he has come closer to religion and God.”
Some Italian websites have even speculated as to when Fidel will make his confession and credo — setting the date as 27 March 2012 at 17:30 when the two ottantacinquenni, Pope Benedict XVI and Castro, will meet at the Palacio de la Revolución when the pope makes his official visit to the head of state, Raul Castro.
During Pope John Paul II’s 1998 visit to Cuba, Castro attended mass, but did...........
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Preaching the gospel of the grace of God. The free gift of salvation by grace through faith in the finished work of Christ alone. And being hunted down by the Catholic Church as heretics for not buying the lies and deceit of Rome. That’s where they were, physically. Spiritually, they were already seated in heavenly places in Christ. Being baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ. And setting their affections on things above, not on things on this earth.
I’ll bite, which book?
Oooops! So much for those “dogmatic teachings that can never change”.
It makes them Christians, real people with real names of the real Church Christ established, Holy Scripture records, the one whose congregations Paul established and wrote to in Rome and elsewhere, teaching the true Christian faith as recorded by those such as Justin Martyr whom you compare to a muslim. Shameful is too small a word for a supposed Christian who acts this way.
Real people, real histories, the real Church in history from Holy Scripture to today.
Where is your church in history? Only in your imagination doesn’t count. Where was your church during the persecution that cost Justin Martyr his head?
I see a fervid imagination about a 20th Century theology, but no names dates, places.
Where? When? Who? What? Simple questions. A place, a date, a name, an action. A single piece of history.
Have just one?
It’s in the same book that Cynical Bear referenced.
Nope. I didn’t compare him to Muslims. I compared YOU to Muslims in that you claim that dying for a belief makes one part of the true religion.
Well, BB, all these wonderfully challenging theological discussions have so invigorated me that I’m off to bed.
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Enjoy and God bless...
Hint. There’s a greater book than that which the Catholic Church keeps. The one the RCC keeps is a fake.
And then turned over to the puppets of the RCC within the so called secular rulers to do the dirty work so the RCC had what they thought was plausible deniability.
"Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, THAT YE STAND FAST IN ONE SPIRIT, WITH ONE MIND STRIVING TOGETHER FOR THE FAITH OF THE GOSPEL, And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. For unto you it is given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." (Philippians 1:27-29).
I just wanted to share this with all of you. It seemed very important and especially relevant right now..
God Bless!
I would love to see you show proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the Catholic church is 100 percent authentic church.
None of this bothers me at all because I can see a flow of great unity for 2000 years of Catholicism and Church councils I believe are guided by the Holy Spirit to have dogmatic teachings that can never change regardless of even cafeteria Catholics who try and rail against this.
That's simply a matter of opinion.
If even Scripture isn't guaranteed to to be 100% anything, then neither is any church. ANY church.
These Catholic teachings are fixed teachings on morals that don’t exist within protestantism that can be changed within even mainstream protestantism.
Wow, from the church that allows child molesting, homosexual priests to continue in office, because once a priest, always a priest.
Who are you kidding?
What morals that don't exist within Protestantism and can be changed by them?
Morals are absolutes established by God. No man establishes them. They stand outside the whims of any church. A church may choose to align itself with those absolutes established by God or not, but they do not establish them themselves.
It most certainly does. Thank you for posting that.
There’s a greater book than that which the Catholic Church keeps. The one the RCC keeps is a fake.This from a poster who claims that Catholics are idolaters, that those who celebrate Easter and Christmas are pagans and who claims that the idea of church on Sunday is a man made tradition and apparently not either Christian or Biblical. Given that this is the point of view from which CynicalBear views the world, his claim that the Catholic "book" is false is, well, laughable. At least imho.
Clueless, totally clueless.
Churches don't *get in*. Denominations don't go to heaven. Individuals do.
So do you think that the book Christ opens in heaven is the book the RCC keeps here on earth?
Funny how anyone who exposes Catholic hypocrisy is a *liar*.
That accusation is thrown about so freely that it ceases to mean anything any more except that someone hit a nerve and the Catholic church can't refute it.
So do you think that the book Christ opens in heaven is the book the RCC keeps here on earth?What "book" do you claim as "the one"? The KJV?
That’s pretty typical for Catholics. Take a look at post 394. Talk about clueless.
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