Posted on 02/20/2014 5:49:58 AM PST by BlatherNaut
This video shows Nicaragua's Archbishop Leopoldo Brenes heading to Rome, where he will be made a cardinal on Saturday. In blue jeans. No cappa magna.
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Is he another “Liberation Theology” nutter?
Were Alter Boys safe around him?
No idea. Clearly he’s not attempting to travel incognito since he’s sporting his worn out civvies only from the bottom down. Weird way for a bishop to dress (and slovenly looking).
Video appears legit.
Anything from NCReporter is suspect, but I kind of miss their point.
Two different men, two different styles, both priests.
NCReporter, if it is trying to create division is then working for the Enemy.
Reading 1 Jas 2:1-9
My brothers and sisters, show no partiality
as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
For if a man with gold rings and fine clothes
comes into your assembly,
and a poor person with shabby clothes also comes in,
and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes
and say, “Sit here, please,”
while you say to the poor one, “Stand there,” or “Sit at my feet,”
have you not made distinctions among yourselves
and become judges with evil designs?
Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters.
Did not God choose those who are poor in the world
to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom
that he promised to those who love him?
But you dishonored the poor.
Are not the rich oppressing you?
And do they themselves not haul you off to court?
Is it not they who blaspheme the noble name that was invoked over you?
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture,
You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.
But if you show partiality, you commit sin,
and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
BTTT! What is important is on the inside, not the outside.
Please explain how this applies to a soon-to-be Prince of the Church running around in a peculiar ensemble of clericals combined with shabby jeans? Are we to assume he could only afford to buy the upper half of his clericals? Other than that, what reasonable excuse would there be for a bishop who represents Christ and his Church to the world to parade around in an ensemble which implies a rejection of the distinctive garments appropriate to his office? The Pope doesn’t appear for an audience in cut-offs and flip-flops.
So far, LOL!
**Alter Boys**
??
**Alter Boys**
?? What is being altered here?
Ah, guilt by association, Alynsky 101. Is Alynsky part of the degree program for an ecologist?
Ecologists use the Internet, queer pedophiles use the Internet, so are little boys safe around an ecologist?
It's never ceases to amaze me how "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't mean a thing to people who want to attack any and all things Catholic.
Apparently King Barry isn't the only one who thinks the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to Catholics.
Ecologists. Like phrenologists. Fake scientists.
I choose not to judge by outside appearances. I have no idea what his soul looks like. Only God does.
That doesn’t answer my question.
The implication being that anyone who finds it regrettable when a priest parades around in public in attire which undermines the dignity of his office that they are guilty of judging his soul? That's an erroneous (and sweepingly judgemental) perspective.
There, feeling more calm?
I am hardly a Catholic basher, but surely you will agree that a priest on the way to high office in the Church who dresses as a Liberation Theologist, ‘Priest of Da Peeple’, might well be more likely than the norm to have either attended one of the Lavender Seminaries or been influenced by them.
‘Sides, I'm not really an ecologist, I am a lawyer wanting more fee, Fee, FEE! Could it be you were an Abused Alter Boy and are in denial? If so, call Dewey, Bilkum, and Howe - Shysters Extraordinaire.
;-)
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