I saw snippets on the news and what came to mind was WWJD.
Jesus would be (is) appalled! Robes and crowns, pomp and circumstance, praising and worshipping “MAN” instead of God.
Luke 13:
25 When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’ 26 then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’ 27 But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’
(from Gill’s Exposition)
depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; or “of a lie”, as the Syriac and Persic versions render it: for they were deceitful workers, they professed what they did not from the heart believe; they said they were Christians, but were not, and now are found liars; they only attended on the word and ordinances in an hypocritical way, and trusted in, and depended upon, their outward profession of religion, and subjection to ordinances; and by so doing, instead of working righteousness, wrought iniquity; and so as they did not submit to Christ and his righteousness, they are bid to depart from him, as wicked and unrighteous men, as they were: the word “all” is here used, which is not in Matthew 7:23 which agrees with Psalm 6:8 to which there seems to be a reference, though it is omitted here, in the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions; See Gill on Matthew 7:23.
http://biblehub.com/luke/13-27.htm
Jesus would be (is) appalled! Robes and crowns, pomp and circumstance, praising and worshipping “MAN” instead of God. Worshiping MAN? Perhaps in the snippets you missed, is this one.
The pope is holding in his hands, the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. They are worshiping God, not man. The priests were dressed in vestments, as commanded by God. There's nothing unscriptural about vestments. God commanded that they be used in the Old Testament. Look at Exodus 28:2:
For your brother Aaron you will make sacred vestments to give dignity and magnificence. You will instruct all the skilled men, whom I have endowed with skill, to make Aaron's vestments for his consecration to my priesthood. These are the vestments which they must make: a pectoral, an ephod, a robe, an embroidered tunic, a turban, and a belt. They must make sacred vestments for your brother Aaron and his sons, for them to be priests in my service. They will use gold and violet material, red-purple and crimson, and finely woven linen.
Nothing in the New Testament requires abolition of priestly vestments. Our Lord attacked the Jewish leaders for a number of sins, but he never condemned their priestly garb.
Jesus would be (is) appalled! Robes and crowns, pomp and circumstance Didn't Jesus take Temple worship, and the accompanying "pomp and circumstance," seriously?
And Temple worship, with the Ark of the Covenant reserved in the Holy of Holies, was a type for Christian worship, with the Body and Blood of Christ reserved in the church's tabernacle.
If "pomp and circumstance" was appropriate for Temple worship, it would certainly be appropriate for Christian worship.
Simply put, Jesus is very, very happy today that two saints of God, their title(s) as saints is NOW offical, what people have KNOWN for years that both John XXIII and John Paul II are both SAINTS. This gives witness to the good news of the Gospel as witness to those who are non-believers and for believers, a call to holiness in life.