Maybe Pope Francis should start the process of declaring Judas a saint to show how merciful the Roman Catholic Church has become.
Jesus knew what Judas was going to do. Jesus had the power to stop him. He also knew what would happen if Judas betrayed him. He had the power to stop that too.
Having said that there is truth to some of what the Pope is saying. Of course 90% of what Satan says is true as well. Its the 10% thats important.
The Pope seems to be questioning Gods law. Thats confusing and tragic.
Uh, OK.
Has anyone checked his meds lately? I am not joking. He is showing signs of an imbalance.
I was with the writer, until the very end. It appears that the writer is saying that the pope’s condemning of innocent people being burned at the stake is wrong.
ah yes the communist in the vatican....lecturing the rest of us yet again
The Pope seems to strongly imply that the Jewish priests were legitimate. We know from the gospels that Jesus continually railed against those who outwardly appeared pious and yet inwardly were unrepentant, did not recognize the true Messiah in front of them, and were filled with pride and hearts of stone.
Is the Pope actually suggesting these “priests” were legit and could have moved Judas to repentance?
Wow, if that’s what he’s saying then it shows a stark and frightening misunderstanding of the Scriptures.
John 6:70-71 shows that Jesus had told his apostles that one of them was a devil, that passage indicating that Jesus was talking about Judas who would later betray Jesus.
Note that Matthew 26:24 shows that Jesus had indicated that it would have been better if Judas had not been born.
Is this Pope Catholic?
T.S. Eliot wrote “Murder in the Cathedral”. It is the story of the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, by knights of England’s King Henry II in 1170.
As applied to Pope Francis’ circumstances, this is the question posed by King Henry II: “Will someone not rid us of this meddlesome priest?”
I’ve often thought that it’s a lot harder to believe in Papal infallibility during the rule of a bad pope.
And yes, I know that this technically does not come under the letter of the law on infallibility, but it certainly comes under the spirit.
(See what I did there?)
I am beginning to wonder if this guy has some skeletons in his closet he is keeping secret
“Enough. Who will stand up to it?”
Cleary not the so-called “conservative” Burke:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3419846/posts
“Interestingly, he concluded the homily by repeating a sort of anti-Catholic blood libel—that the Church has a long history of burning dissidents and so on”
LOL, this is blood libel??? First of all, Francis didn’t say the Catholic church did this, just that it happened, and that the perpetrators claimed a motivation from the Bible, which is absolutely true. Secondly, even if the Catholic church wasn’t lighting the bonfires under witches themselves, they certainly participated willingly in the process and never used their considerable power and influence to stop it.
The Bible calls Judas the “son of perdition”, predestined to destruction in accordance with prophecy.