Posted on 07/11/2014 7:14:59 PM PDT by marshmallow
After meeting with a group of Pentecostal Evangelicals Pope Francis reportedly wants to preach in a Protestant church in Rome. This article reports on the meeting held in Rome with Pope Francis and TV Evangelist Kenneth Copeland and other Evangelical leaders including theologian Brian Stiller and Anglican bishop Tony Palmer.
The Pope wants to go to the Evangelical church and apologize for all the times Catholics have been nasty to Protestants. That is, of course, very wonderful and we will be waiting not only for them to graciously accept the apology, but to offer their own in return. I’m reminded of the time Pope John Paul II on Ash Wednesday of the Jubilee Year led a service of public penitence for sins committed by Catholics against lots of people…including Protestant Christians.
This loving and humble gesture was met with silence by Protestants and not a peep from any Protestant leaders that I remember with a similar apology in return.
Stiller says Pope Francis is interested in dialogue with Evangelicals, but he doesn’t want to convert them.
Francis has also shown a great openness to evangelicals. According to his understanding of evangelism asked the Pope replied that he was not interested in converting evangelicals to Catholicism. He wished that people find Jesus in their own community.Instead of a lot of time to spend with the debate about different schools of thought, one should focus on “love to show Jesus”.
That is Brian Stiller’s memory of the conversation. You can read the first hand account on Brian’s blog here. Does the pope really not want to convert Evangelicals? Is it okay to just “find Jesus in your own denomination?” As usual with Pope Francis, a private conversation has been reported publicly and now it’s open season for everyone to pick it apart........
(Excerpt) Read more at patheos.com ...
Not sure why you're putting that on your list; many of the people who were "decimated" were quite Catholic, and many of the people doing the decimating were quite Protestant.
I'm of German heritage, and I (or rather, people related to me) can trace our ancestry back to the 1650's or so ... at which point it abruptly stops. The records were burned; the churches most likely burned with them.
The Thirty Years' war wasn't purely about religion, of course -- the Catholic French and the Protestant Swedes were on the same side -- but it was bad enough for Europe mostly to give up warring over religion.
Yes, this is a similar comparison to what I posted in post #25.
It is these major discrepancies that I speak of when I say this man isn’t just a “bad” pope like the ones we’ve had in the distant past. This man speaks CONTRARY to the Catholic Faith. No pope has EVER spoken contrary to the Catholic Faith even if they were guilty of the most heinous of sins.
With each passing day, it is clear that this man is a Modernist. And a Modernist is not a Catholic. And the Pope must be Catholic.
He gives new meaning to the question: Is the pope Catholic?
The Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother—Paul, an apostle, to the Galatians...
As a former Jesuit provincial, one thing Francis is not is a moron. Your vulgar characterization of his exercise of the Petrine ministry is offensive.
That is quite an example of the sophistry RCs will engage in to defend the pope or their church.
But which is obviously not the historical teaching, nor consistent with presumption that all other churches are deficient in grace, though overall evangelicals manifest far more evidence of regeneration than the fruit of Rome.
Moreover, the pope in the beginning evidenced no need to even trying to actually convert atheists.
"Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us." "Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good."
"And I repeat it here. Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place."
. The Son of God became incarnate in order to instill the feeling of brotherhood in the souls of men. All are brothers and all children of God. Abba, as he called the Father
Your Holiness, you said that you have no intention of trying to convert me and I do not think you would succeed.
"We cannot know that, but I don't have any such intention."
http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2013/10/01/news/pope_s_conversation_with_scalfari_english-67643118/?ref=search
Now i am off to bed.
Offensive? Yeah. Sorry about that. mea culpa. But not wrong.
May the better team win!
Pray for the UNITY of ALL Christian believers according to John 17.
He can start by registering at Free Republic and apologizing for all the times his followers here have snarked about "Bible-thumpers," "snake-handlers," and "brain-dead Bibliolators."
Then he can issue a statement saying it's still all right to believe Genesis 1-11 is actual history. Just watch the heads of the Genesis-hating papolators on this forum explode then!
I don't think Catholics are pagans who believes in superstitious hocus pocus. I think they're enlightenment rationalists who believe in higher criticism and evolution.
But then, I'm not a Protestant.
. . . then they must first accept higher criticism and evolution. Who wouldn't prefer islam?
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