Posted on 07/22/2015 7:52:43 AM PDT by Biggirl
Pope Francis is not as popular a pontiff as he used to be in the United States — especially among conservatives — according to a new Gallup survey out Wednesday. A larger share of American Catholics say they don’t have a favorable view of their church’s spiritual leader. A little more than seven in 10 (71 percent) have a favorable image of Francis, a drop of 18 percentage points from last year.
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Because he’s marxist first, then pope, then Catholic.
God bless Pope Francis. I often pray for him and Pope Benedict.
I have left the Catholic Church too. The final tip over the edge was when I heard the new Pope was from Argentina and a Jesuit. I said to myself “Oh great. He’s a Jesuit which means he really isn’t Catholic anyway.”
I’m so out of the Church, and the fact that the Catholic Church is so wishy-washy and soft and feminized drove me out.
I swear the next time I see a feminized picture of Christ with flowers or bunny rabbits I’m going to fall on the ground in a fetal position and throw up.
A once great Church now a secular tool of the Left.
We are in year 100 of the thousand years of darkness.
God Bless Pope Francis. That is the best thing to do, is to pray for him, Pope Benedict Emeritus, and for all our priests and religious.
I make a prediction.
Look for Pope Francis to step down once he turns 80.
Yes. Who knows why some things happen. We often don’t know until we are able to look back and see a pattern or conclusion.
There are no bunny rabbits in this picture:
And remember, when you leave the Catholic Church, you’re turning your back on the Eucharist, and the Eucharist is what gives one “His” strength and “His” power: http://adorationrocks.com/letter.html
Why would you leave the Catholic Church because of Pope Francis? Did you leave the United States because of Obama? And yet Obama is clearly far more liberal than Francis, like abortion, same-sex marriage, and so on. And the Church has not changed its doctrine. Contrast that to the US Supreme Court on same-sex marriage changing the law and Obamacare and much more.
Catholics have had even weaker Popes in the past. We will get through Francis. He is 78. You must have Faith.
We have a small handful of excellent conservative priests in the Scranton area, but none are near enough to satisfy this friend of mine.
Really sad, isn’t it?
No reason to stop going to church. Your friend may need to check his OWN faith in God.
I guess he will need to hire new campaign consultants, then....
+1
There are precedents, but they are pretty weak, for removing a sitting Pope against his will.
Most of them involved poison, which tells you something how long ago that was a going thing.
The only other case was during the Great Schism where the University of Paris was used to mediate between the two Papal camps. They tried to depose both and elected a third man, and ended up with THREE Popes and a mess that had to wait till the last of two lines died before sorting out.
Just a reminder, it has been much nuttier.
All true of course.
But it is highly unlikely that the current Pope will be forcibly removed from office or that a Schism might occur as a result of his political views.
A more likely (and hopeful) scenario is that his advanced age will encourage him to follow in the footsteps of his immediate predecessor and take an early retirement.
I’m not surprised with the numbers; Pope Francis is confusing to me. Our Lady of Akita, however, has asked us during these troublesome times to pray for the pope and all religious:
“As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and priests.” Our Lady of Akita, 10-13-73
https://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/AKITA.HTM
Tell him to go to Lutheran Synod churches. Same thing only no pope and you can confess your sins and sorrow, asking forgiveness to Jesus directly. Same communion, baptism, confirmation and pretty much the same doctrines before Catholics went bonkers organizationally with corruption.
What I find so very sad is the fact that so many don’t have the spiritual fortitude to overlook a bad religious leader, be it priest or pope. Christ’s church is not temporal. To sever the relationship with God vis-a-vis his Church is simply playing into Satan’s hands. It saddens me greatly to see people “give up”. In my estimation, their faith wasn’t even the size of a mustard seed.
The Vatican is looking to smonge money off future world governance (global warming) the same way Catholic Charities has found a revenue steam in local governments and school districts here in the U.S. (Yes, I have personal experience, seen how CatholicCharities operates.)
You can’t argue with that revenue stream and the Pope’s positions are putting that business model in play.
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