As a cradle, practicing Catholic who has been trying to take a positive view of the current Pope, my patience is running thin. Pray for the Pope.
This isn’t going to end well at all, at all.
“he who is anointing us with the blood of martyrdom, knows that Christians are disciples of Christ. That we are one, that we are brothers! He doesn’t care if they are Evangelicals, Orthodox, Lutherans, Catholics or Apostolic. He doesn’t care! They are Christians.””
Any believer who has entrusted himself or herself to the saving sacrifice of Christ is a brother or sister.
Any member of a church who has yet to come to saving faith in Christ is close to family.
Another mistranslation?
Francis added that the devil "knows that Christians are disciples of Christ, that they are one, that they are brothers! He doesn't care if they are Evangelicals or Orthodox, Lutherans, Catholics or Apostolic … he doesn't care! They are Christians."
Mark 9:38-42.
Sounds orthodox to me.
You rock, Pope Francis. We all need to get together in the face of global evil, murder, and perversion, and find a way to do it without everyone having to convert to Catholicism.
The gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church, Christ promised it and I believe it. Have faith Christ will protect His Church.
Pray the rosary and pray for the Church. This is our time to unite ourselves with Father, Son, Holy Spirit and all the Saints that have gone before us, not to despair or be afraid, God IS.
This is true on one level, and not true on another. People killed for faith in Christ, even if that faith didn’t conform to Catholic doctrine, have always been regarded as true Christian martyrs (although not for veneration by the faithful). In fact, even non-Christians who adhered to natural law have been regarded as virtuous pagans and were considered to be retroactively covered by Christ’s atonement. After all, God is eternal, so what happens in God-time is not like what happens in our time.
But in terms of the future, there has got to be a definable and uniform Christian faith, especially as people, confused by everything from the “Reformation” to Vatican II, move further and further away from the roots of faith.
The Catholic Church has undermined itself in its attempt to adapt to Protestants and even to non-Christians, and this has got to stop. We have to keep our Faith and our doctrine, because whether they admit it or not, all the other non-Catholic Christians look to the Church as a standard.
Vatican II destroyed the Protestants as much as it destroyed Catholics. In fact, even non-Christians expect to be told the truth by the Church - but they haven’t heard it for 50 years now.
It is revealing to see who the Devil thinks it’s worth his time and effort to oppose. It’s true, he thinks all Christians are dangerous to him, so it seems.
C’mon,this will be fun! We’ll teach y’all how to handle the snakes. Once you get the hang of it, it’s pretty fun, and if they bite you it brings that much closer to God.
You bring the wine, though, you can’t have a party on grape juice and that’s all we got.
We may all be in the same field, but some are wheat and some are tares.
Maybe God has a reason for there being two popes.
Don’t know much about ecclesiology?
There are many with the Evangelical label especially who make better praticing Catholics than many Catholics.
If they are willing to die for the Christian faith... I think we give them the benefit of the doubt in all things.
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