—— He did say, And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Jesus is the rock! The chief cornerstone. Not Peter. -—
Jesus said this after changing Simon’s name to Rock, or Kepha in Aramaic.
God’s action of changing a name always signified something of great significance.
Now, the Pope did say to gays-”Who am I to judge.”Many catholics have a problem with that plus gay priests.” I worry about the forced tolerance of things that are not judeao christian and are merely anti christian. This country was founded by those seeking religious freedom plus freedom from European Gov’s. We have had the very moral, religious, and legal structures that our forefathers so highly valued almost destroyed by the far left from attacks on the traditional family to throwing God out of public and crosses out. We have already seen much that our nation’s founders held so dear questioned by the left and this Pres.Many things have changed and our Pres has had 5 IFTAR dinners at the White House.