[marshmallow]

At one point, when Palmer was tired of living on the frontier and wanted to become Catholic, Bergoglio advised him against conversion for the sake of the mission.

Dissuading potential converts is not something one expects to find on the CV of a future Pope, no matter how exalted the goal.

[livius]

The Pope really doesn’t believe there’s anything special about this. I’ve become increasingly disturbed by his behavior.

Dissuading converts was all the rage among lefty clergy in the 1970s and 80s, and Pope Francis’ mind is still stuck in that time and that viewpoint.

[vladimir998]

“...Palmer didn’t look or sound much like a conventional Anglican bishop.”

Cause he wasn’t one.

[Romulus]

Those who know they must be Catholic have a grave duty to do so. Those who dissuade them commit the sin of scandal.

[piusv]

Francis has made it abundantly clear (yes, CLEAR) that he doesn’t believe that one needs to be Catholic to be saved.

[Romulus]

Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium, 14: “They could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it, or to remain in it.”

[piusv]

Palmer handed the pope a proposed Declaration of Faith in Unity for Mission the evangelicals had drawn up, which they proposed would be signed by both the Vatican and leaders of the major Protestant churches in Rome in 2017, on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 50th anniversary of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.

Last Wednesday, in Bath, Palmer’s funeral was a Catholic Requiem Mass at which most of the congregation were evangelicals. He was buried in a Catholic cemetery, united at last with the Church he felt at home in.

WTF?