Posted on 05/24/2014 3:42:57 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
And the point is....?
I wonder how many heterosexuals are influenced to commit homosexual acts by this attitude of practicing Roman Catholics.
Why hasn’t de Paolis been excommunicated?
Dear Mr. Pope,
I don’t believe anything in the Bible has changed.
It’s the same ideology keeping Nancy Pelosi from being excommunicated. How many babies are aborted daily because of her and her politics? There isn’t enough time left in their lives to spend in a confessional for what they do advocating homosexuality and the slaughter of babies. Yet, from the bishops, cardinals and pope - crickets.
Good question. And why is Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli, co-founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, and spiritual son of Padre Pio and Maximilian Kolbe being persecuted and the order he built being smashed by the Apostolic Commissioner authorized by Pope Francis?
The gift of a wooden chalice is so telling. It seems like a symbol of modesty, being a simple material available to a carpenter. But it precludes the presence of Christ within it as it is not a noble material. Try to find a wooden passover wine cup; they do not exist.
The Pope needs a blood test
Jesus took the hand of the adultress in John 8. He didn’t endorse her adultery.
Jesus supped with the tax collector Zaccheaus. He didn’t endorse his thievery.
Jesus had an audience with Nicodemus. He didn’t endorse his hypocrisy.
Jesus called Matthew to be his disciple. He didn’t endorse his illegal actions as a tax collector.
Jesus calls you and I to “leave our nets” and follow Him. He doesn’t endorse our sin—He wants us to LEAVE OUR SINFUL LIVES BEHIND.
I am not even Catholic, and I can see that. Francis, I presume, is reaching out to the lost soul who endorses sodomy—Francis is not endorsing sodomy.
Pray he doesn't use it.
It's Francis' sacred duty to STOP this priest from publicly endorsing sodomy, both for his own sake and to prevent him from leading other souls astray. "But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea". There have been no reports of this priest publicly repenting for leading little ones astray. The Pope kissing his hand will be widely interpreted as a sign of affirmation.
It’s telling, all right. It tells of a direct challenge to authority, defiant disobedience masquerading as humility. Uriah Heep in clericals — both of them.
Agreed...Jesus loved the sinner, not the sin.
Perhaps by those who think like those who criticized Jesus, right?
While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
The Pope has not endorsed perversion by reaching out to someone who is perverted.
How about kissing the hand of an activist homosexual priest and celebrating mass with him?
That's a little bit different from merely "reaching out."
All of your examples turned away from their sin. Did this homosexual priest repent from his sin and heresy?
“On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.””
Please show me where the pope has called them sinners.
Followed by: “What the Pope really meant to say was (fill in the blank).
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