No mention of Jesus in Pope UN speech.

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/09/25/pope_francis_addresses_the_un_general_assembly/1174588 ^

[javie]

The Pope never mentioned Jesus by name once at the UN.

"Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 11This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. 12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

[Redbob]

Who there would know what he was talking about if he had?

I’ll bet he was all over “global warming” though.

[longfellow]

Any word on the christian massacres?

[HarleyLady27]

He is Peter the Roman....and he is not here to speak of Our Lord Jesus Christ or of God.....

[sevinufnine]

Exactly what my husband mentioned to me yesterday, then asked me why I thought the Pope hadn’t done so? I said...because the POPE is who his “followers” worship. He doesn’t bother to point them towards Christ. He IS the holy one in his own mind (and theirs), you know?

[Resolute Conservative]

He doesn’t know him well enough to talk about him, IMO.

[FES0844]

Wonder what his reaction will be to the 911 bible relic? Just saw it for the first time. Amazing!

[MrB]

No mention of Jesus =>

“here’s how you save yourselves through your own works”

[circlecity]

So, the pope had an audience of 500 of the most influential, powerful men in the world and never once mentioned Jesus or the Gospel. Why is it again I’m supposed to believe he’s a Christian?

[zerosix]

Jesus, Jesus? Who's He?

We don't need no Savior when we've got this Pope, Obama and the UN!

[MichaelCorleone]

Not that there can ever be a legitimate reason, but I’d be interested to see what the Pope’s explanation is at to why he will not acknowledge the Lord. Especially in these soon to become dark days.

Has anyone actually asked him?

[RetSignman]

0 acts like HE is the Messiah and the pope is a serious contender for that title.

It’s a Marxist battle of wills and entitlement.

[ETL]

This might explain it...

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html

[ETL]

And this...

Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190909/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD
__________________________________

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190904/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02

Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

[ETL]

Also...

Liberation Theology and the KGB

Jay Richards | February 2, 2010

The presence of Marxism in liberation theology is well-known, at least to seminarians who are critical readers. Practically every seminarian reads Gustavo Gutierrez’s Theology of Liberation at some point, but most laypeople find it hard to believe that there could have been (and continues to be) a widespread attempt to hybridize Christian theology and Marxism.

Marxist regimes obviously benefitted from the spread of liberation theology in the churches. Still, I was not aware of any connections between liberation theology and communist clandestine organizations until now.

A new article by Robert D. Chapman in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence begins to connect some dots. In “The Church in Revolution,” Chapman, “a retired operations officer in the Clandestine Services Division of the Central Intelligence Agency,” argues that the KGB infiltrated the Russian Orthodox Church through Metropolitan Nikodim, the Russian Orthodoxy’s second-ranking prelate. Nikodim was a proponent of liberation theology. Nikodim was active in the otherwise-Protestant World Council of Churches. And the WCC, of course, became an actively left-wing organization during the last half of the 20th century.

Chapman also details the growth of liberation theology in Latin America—and the Vatican’s struggles with it—and the growth of black liberation theology in the United States. Prominent proponents of the latter include James Cone and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The arguments of liberation theologians should be challenged on their merits. The source of an argument, after all, doesn’t establish its truth or falsity. Still, it’s interesting to learn that liberation theology may have been, at least in part, a project of the KGB.

Unfortunately, this isn’t just history. Chapman concludes ominously:

"the Theology of Liberation doctrine is one of the most enduring and powerful to emerge from the KGB’s headquarters. The doctrine asks the poor and downtrodden to revolt and form a Communist government, not in the name of Marx or Lenin, but in continuing the work of Jesus Christ, a revolutionary who opposed economic and social discrimination.

A friend of mine, a head of Catholic social services in my area and formerly a priest, is a liberation theologian. He has made a number of humanitarian trips to Central America and told me, ‘‘liberation theology is alive and well.’’ The same can be said of its sibling in the United States [ie, Black Liberation Theology]."

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2010/02/liberation-theology-and-the-kgb/

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More on Liberation Theology and the Soviets
Catholic News Agency ^ | 5/15/2015 | Alejandro Bermúdez

Posted on 5/16/2015, 11:56:24 AM by observationdeck

If the Soviet bloc wasn't the mother of liberation theology, it was certainly a sinister stepmother, enlisting Catholics in a geopolitical cause and inviting them to sell their souls for funding and support.

Only the naïve can disregard the mountain of evidence connecting liberation theology with Soviet action in the region.

(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...

[ETL]

Re: National Council of Churches

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: Institute For Policy Studies (IPS)

IPS’s [Institute For Policy Studies] Washington, DC headquarters quickly became a resource center for national reporters and a place for KGB agents from the nearby Soviet embassy to convene and strategize. Cora Weiss headed one of the IPS's most successful forays -- into Riverside Church in Manhattan. She was invited there in 1978 by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin to run the church's Disarmament Program, which sought to consolidate Soviet nuclear superiority in Europe -- in the name of "peace." In 1982 Weiss helped organize the largest pro-disarmament demonstration ever held. Staged in New York City, the rally was attended by a coalition of communist organizations.

During her decade-long tenure at Riverside, which became home to the National Council of Churches, Weiss regularly received Russian KGB agents, Sandinista friends, and Cuban intelligence agents. Weiss became infamous for her role in the psychological warfare conducted against U.S. prisoners of war held in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam War.

The Liberation News Service, which is a news source for hundreds of "alternative" publications nationwide (with antiwar, Marxist-oriented perspectives), was founded in 1967 with IPS assistance."

[lots more at link...]

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991

[grumpygresh]

How can you be a follower of Christ if you don’t mention HIS name?

[ebb tide]

But he did mention “environment” nineteen times.

[HarleyLady27]

http://www.catholic-pages.com/

Prophecy of St Malachy

The Prophecies

Pope No. Name (Reign) Motto No. Motto (and explanation)
167 Celestine II (1143-1144) 1 Ex castro Tyberis
(from a castle on the Tiber)
Hist.: Celestin II was born in Citta di Castello, Toscany, on the shores of the Tiber

168 Lucius II (1144-1145) 2
Inimicus expulsus
169 Eugene III (1145-1153) 3
Ex magnitudine montis
(Of the greatness of the mount)
Hist.: Born in the castle of Grammont (latin: mons magnus), his family name was Montemagno

170 Anastasius IV (1153-1154) 4 Abbas Suburranus

171 Adrian IV (1154-1159) 5 De rure albo
(field of Albe)
Hist.: Born in the town of Saint-Alban

Antipope Victor IV (1159-1164) 6 Ex tetro carcere

Antipope Paschal III (1164-1168) 7 Via trans-Tyberina

Antipope Calistus III (1168-1178) 8 De Pannonia Tusciæ

172 Alexander III (1159-1181) 9 Ex ansere custode

173 Lucius III (1181-1185) 10
Lux in ostio

174 Urban III (1185-1187) 11
Sus in cribo

175 Gregory VIII (1187) 12
Ensis Laurentii

176 Clement III (1187-1191) 13
De schola exiet

177 Celestine III (1191-1198) 14 De rure bovensi

178 Innocent III (1198-1216) 15 Comes signatus
(signed Count)
Hist.: descendant of the noble Signy, later called Segni family

179 Honorius III (1216-1227) 16 Canonicus de latere

180 Gregory IX (1227-1241) 17 Avis Ostiensis
(Bird of Ostia)
Hist.: before his election he was Cardinal of Ostia

181 Celestine IV (1241) 18
Leo Sabinus

182 Innocent IV (1243-1254) 19
Comes Laurentius

183 Alexander IV (1254-1261) 20 Signum Ostiense

184 Urban IV (1261-1264) 21 Hierusalem Campaniæ
(Jerusalem of Champagne)
Hist.: native of Troyes, Champagne, later patriarch of Jerusalem

185 Clement IV (1265-1268) 22 Draca depressus

186 Gregory X (1271-1276) 23 Anguinus vir

187 Innocent V (1276) 24 Concionatur Gallus

188 Adrian V (1276) 25 Bonus Comes

189 John XXI (1276-1277) 26 Piscator Tuscus

190 Nicholas III (1277-1280) 27 Rosa composita

191 Martin IV (1281-1285) 28 Ex teloneo liliacei Martini

192 Honorius IV (1285-1287) 29 Ex rosa leonina

193 Nicholas IV (1288-1292) 30 Picus inter escas

194 Nicholas IV (1288-1292) 31 Ex eremo celsus
(elevated from a hermit)
Hist.: prior to his election he was a hermit in the monastery of Pouilles

195 Boniface VIII (1294-1303) 32 Ex undarum benedictione

196 Benedict XI (1303-1304) 33 Concionator patereus

197 Clement V (1305-1314) 34 De fessis Aquitanicis
(ribbon of Aquitaine)
Hist.: was archbishop of Bordeaux in Aquitaine

198 John XXII (1316-1334) 35 De sutore osseo
(of the cobbler of Osseo)
Hist.: Family name Ossa, son of a shoe-maker

Antipope Nicholas V (1328-1330) 36 Corvus schismaticus
(the schismatic crow)
Note the reference to the schism, the only antipope at this period

199 Benedict XII (1334-1342) 37 Frigidus Abbas
(cold friar)
Hist.: he was a priest in the monastery of Frontfroid (coldfront)

200 Clement VI (1342-1352) 38 De rosa Attrebatensi

201 Innocent VI (1352-1362) 39 De montibus Pammachii

202 Urban V (1362-1370) 40
Gallus Vice-comes
203 Gregory XI (1370-1378) 41 Novus de Virgine forti
(novel of the virgin fort)
Hist.: count of Beaufort, later Cardinal of Ste-Marie La Neuve

Antipope Clement VII (1378-1394) 42 De cruce Apostilica

Antipope Benedict XIII (1394-1423) 43 Luna Cosmedina

Antipope Clement VIII (1423-1429) 44 Schisma Barcinonicum

204 Urban VI (1378-1389) 45 De Inferno pregnani(From the hell of Pregnani)
Hist.: He was a town called Inferno in the region of Pregnani.

205 Boniface IX (1389-1404) 46
Cubus de mixtione

206 Innocent VII (1404-1406) 47 De meliore sydere

207 Gregory XII (1406-1415) 48 Nauta de ponte nigro

Antipope Alexander V (1409-1410) 49 Flagellum Solis

Antipope John XXIII (1410-1415) 50 Cervus Sirenæ

208 Martin V (1417-1431) 51
Corona veli aurei

209 Eugene IV (1431-1447) 52 Lupa cælestina
Antipope Felix V (1439-1449) 53 Amator crucis

210 Nicholas V (1447-1455) 54 De modicitate lunæ

211 Callistus III (1455-1458) 55 Bos pascens
(grazing ox)
Hist.: Alphonse Borgia’s arms sported a golden grazing ox
212 Pius II (1458-1464) 56
De capra et Albergo

213 Paul II (1464-1471) 57
De cervo et Leone

214 Sixtus IV (1471-1484) 58
Piscator Minorita

215 Innocent VIII (1484-1492) 59 Præcursor Siciliæ

216 Alexander VI (1492-1503) 60 Bos Albanus in portu

217 Pius III (1503) 61
De parvo homine

218 Julius II (1503-1513) 62 Fructus jovi
juvabit

219 Leo X (1513-1521) 63 De craticula Politiana

220
Adrian VI (1522-1523) 64 Leo Florentius
221
Clement VII (1523-1534) 65 Flos pilæi ægri
222 Paul III (1534-1549) 66 Hiacynthus medicorum

223
Julius III (1550-1555) 67
De corona Montana

224 Marcellus II (1555) 68 Frumentum floccidum

225
Paul IV (1555-1559) 69 De fide Petri
226
Pius IV (1559-1565) 70 Æsculapii pharmacum

227 St. Pius V (1566-1572) 71 Angelus nemorosus

228 Gregory XIII (1572-1585) 72 Medium corpus pilarum

229 Sixtus V (1585-1590) 73 Axis in medietate signi

230 Urban VII (1590) 74 De rore cæli

231 Gregory XIV (1590-1591) 75 De antiquitate Urbis

232 Innocent IX (1591) 76 Pia civitas in bello

233 Clement VIII (1592-1605) 77 Crux Romulea

234 Leo XI (1605) 78 Undosus Vir

235 Paul V (1605-1621) 79 Gens perversa

236 Gregory XV (1621-1623) 80 In tribulatione pacis

237 Urban VIII (1623-1644) 81 Lilium et rosa

238 Innocent X (1644-1655) 82 Jucunditas crucis

239 Alexander VII (1655-1667) 83 Montium custos

240 Clement IX (1667-1669) 84 Sydus Olorum
(constellation of swans)
Hist.: upon his election, he was apparently the occupant of the Chamber of Swans in the Vatican.

241 Clement X (1670-1676) 85 De flumine magno

242 Innocent XI (1676-1689) 86 Bellua insatiabilis

243 Alexander VIII (1689-1691) 87 Pœnitentia gloriosa

244 Innocent XII (1691-1700) 88 Rastrum in porta

245 Clement XI (1700-1721) 89 Flores circumdati

246 Innocent XIII (1721-1724) 90 De bona Religione

247 Benedict XIII (1724-1730) 91 Miles in bello

248 Clement XII (1730-1740) 92 Columna excelsa

249 Benedict XIV (1740-1758) 93 Animal rurale

250 Clement XIII (1758-1769) 94 Rosa Umbriæ

251 Clement XIV (1769-1774) 95 Ursus velox

252 Pius VI (1775-1799) 96 Peregrinus Apostolicus

253 Pius VII (1800-1823) 97 Aquila rapax

254 Leo XII (1823-1829) 98 Canis et coluber

255 Pius VIII (1829-1830) 99 Vir religiosus

256 Gregory XVI (1831-1846) 100 De balneis hetruriæ
(bath of Etruria)
Hist.: prior to his election he was member of an order founded by Saint Romuald, at Balneo, in Etruria, present day Toscany.

257 Pius IX (1846-1878) 101 Crux de cruce
(Cross of Crosses)
Hist.:Pius XI was the last Pope to reign over the Papal States (the middle third of what is today Italy). He ended up being a prisoner of the Vatican, never venturing outside Vatican City. A much heavier burden than his predecessors.

258 Leo XIII (1878-1903) 102 Lumen in cælo(Light in the Heavens)
Hist.: Leo XIII wrote encyclicals on Catholic social teaching that were still being digested 100 years later. He added considerably to theology.

259 St. Pius X (1903-1914) 103 Ignis ardens
(ardent fire)
Hist.: The Pope had great personal piety and achieved a number of important reforms in the devotional and liturgical life of priests and laypeople.

260 Benedict XV (1914-1922) 104 Religio depopulata
(Religion laid waste)
Hist.: This Pope reigned during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia which store the establishment of Communism.

261 Pius XI (1922-1939) 105 Fides intrepida
(Intrepid faith)
Hist.: This Pope stood up to Fascist and Communist forces lining up against him in the lead up to World War II.

262 Pius XII (1939-1958) 106 Pastor angelicus
(Angelic Shepherd)
Hist.: This Pope was very mystical, and is believed to have received visions. People would kneel when they received telephone calls from him. His encyclicals add enormously to the understanding of Catholic beliefs (even if they are now overlooked because of focus on the Second Vatican Council, which occurred so soon after his reign).

263 John XXIII (1958-1963) 107 Pastor et Nauta
(pastor and marine)
Hist.: prior to his election he was patriarch of Venice, a marine city, home of the gondolas

264 Paul VI (1963-1978) 108 Flos florum
(flower of flowers)
Hist.: his arms displayed three lilies.

265 John Paul I (1978) 109 De medietate Lunæ
(of the half of the moon)
Hist.: Albino Luciani, born in Canale d’Agardo, diocese of Belluno, (beautiful moon) Elected pope on August 26, his reign lasted about a month, from half a moon to the next half...

266 John Paul II (1978-2005) 110 De labore Solis
(of the eclipse of the sun, or from the labour of the sun)
Hist.: Karol Wojtyla was born on May 18, 1920 during a solar eclipse. He also comes from behind the former Iron Curtain (the East, where the Sun rises). He might also be seen to be the fruit of the intercession of the Woman Clothed with the Sun labouring in Revelation 12 (because of his devotion to the Virgin Mary). His Funeral occurred on 8 April, 2005 when there was a solar eclipse visible in the Americas.

267 Benedict XVI (2005-) 111 Gloria olivæ
The Benedictine order traditionally said this Pope would come from their order, since a branch of the Benedictine order is called the Olivetans. St Benedict is said to have prophesied that before the end of the world, a member of his order would be Pope and would triumphantly lead the Church in its fight against evil. While the Holy Father chose the name “Benedict”, this does not seem enough to fulfil the prophecy. Nor is it clear how Benedict XVI (a Bavarian) is “Glory of the Olives”. Since he is said to have remarked in the Conclave after saying he would take the name Benedict that it was partly to honour Benedict XV, a pope of peace and reconciliation, perhaps Benedict XVI will be a peacemaker in the Church or in the World, and thus carry the olive branch.

In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit Petrus Romanus, qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus: quibus transactis civitas septicollis diruetur, & Judex tremêdus judicabit populum suum. Finis.
(In extreme persecution, the seat of the Holy Roman Church will be occupied by Peter the Roman, who will feed the sheep through many tribulations, at the term of which the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the formidable Judge will judge his people. The End.)

[SkyDancer]

Guess he knows that Yeshua was Jewish and since he’s pro-Palestinian it figures.