It depends on what the definition of heaven, is.
Posted on 04/20/2016 7:27:09 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
We should only look to Jesus for Heaven, Pope Francis said during a recent mass.
The pontiff made his comments Monday while speaking from Casa Santa Marta at the Vatican, saying that only through Jesus can people go to heaven
"The Lord thus clearly says: you cannot enter eternal life by any entryway that is not the door – that is not Jesus," the pontiff said. "He is the door of our life – and not only of eternal life, but also of our daily lives."
The pope added that he who attempts to reach heaven by an alternative way to Jesus "is a thief and a robber."
"He who does not enter the sheepfold by the door," but rather goes a different way, "is a thief and a robber," the pope said, noting that "there is no other" route.
"Jesus shows the way forward: there is no other who can show the way," Francis said.
"Any decision I take, I take either in the name of Jesus, passing by way of the door of Jesus, or I take it a little – shall we say in simple language – through the smuggler's hatch [It. contrabbando]? We enter the enclosure through the door, which is Jesus," the pope stated.
The pope also stressed the importance of Jesus and eternity in a February 2015 homily, saying that all humans have a hunger that can only be satisfied through a relationship with Jesus Christ, who he described as the "bread of life."
"We all have this hunger […] It is the hunger for life - the hunger for eternity - that only He can satisfy because He is the bread of life" he said.
Along with looking to Jesus for eternal salvation, the Pope also spoke on the importance of the church in one's faith.
Francis said during a mass in May 2014 that God meant for us to live in a Christian community, rather than be isolated.
"Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without this, we are not Christians. We entered the Church through baptism: there we are Christians," the pope said. "A Christian without a church is something purely idealistic, it is not real."
"Jesus Christ did not fall from the sky like a superhero who comes to save us. No. Jesus Christ has a history. And we can say, and it is true, that God has a history because He wanted to walk with us. And you cannot understand Jesus Christ without His history. So a Christian without history, without a Christian nation, a Christian without the Church is incomprehensible. It is a thing of the laboratory, an artificial thing, a thing that cannot give life," Francis added.
The pontiff added at the time that just as it is difficult for Jesus Christ to be understood alone without the Christian religion, so it is equally difficult to understand a Christian alone without also taking into account the Church and their Christian brothers and sisters.
I hope he’s preaching that to the “refugees” he took to the Vatican.
How long did it take for him to realize that?
How long did it take for him to realize that?
It depends on what the definition of heaven, is.
The pope also stressed the importance of Jesus and eternity in a February 2015 homily
The Church is therefore obliged to view evangelisation to Jews, who believe in the one God, in a different manner from that to people of other religions and world views. In concrete terms this means that the Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed towards Jews.
So how does this all square with Amoris Laetitia, and in particular, footnote #351?
Francis’ Janus-faced commentary over the course of his papacy constitutes the quintessential head game. Thank God for the trustworthy teachings of Sacred Scripture, of the Saints, holy Popes and spiritual guides which transmit to us the unadulterated Truth, especially in these times when we are being relentlessly bombarded with error — even from the highest echelons of the Church.
Does that mean he no longer believes atheists can make it into Heaven?
“”A Christian without a church is something purely idealistic, it is not real.”
The conclusion is so simple that even Pope Francis, a hick from Argentina, gets it. No salvation outside the Church. Analogy. No animals lived outside of Noah’s ark .
If Francis truly believes that Jesus is the only way to heaven, why does he promote and encourage the people who say that He isn’t the only answer?
“No animals lived outside of Noah’s ark .”
Of course that’s true.
Why do you think there are no unicorns?
Good question.
Four people wrote the Book of Genesis and there are different ways to interpret the Bible. The Noah story lacked unicorns as well as star fish, dolphins and kangaroos, because the Noah story is interpreted analogously. Who is to say that maybe Pope Francis is speaking analogously, too? Thus, pride rejects the source of truth and humility sees the wonderful story of Noah and the accuracy of the Church’s mission.
Deuteronomy 4:19 and Malachi 1:11.
My brain hurts.
With this pope, I thought the way to heaven was fighting global warming deniers.
How long did it take for him to realize that?
A least from the time he entered the Society of Jesus.
When a person who has turned himself over to Christ as his Lord and Savior becomes saved, he has become part of Christ's Church. Else, I agree with the Pope - for once (or maybe twice or even three times), but I guess it's all moot since I am a lapsed Catholic who attends a Christian Church.
Don't let it. Modernist is as Modernist does. If he actually said this (I don't see an actual link to his words in this Christian Post article), this is classic Modernist teeter-tottering. In addition, given his recent memory issues re: AL ("I don't remember.....") it seems as if Francis is now pandering to those he has obviously upset. I don't believe he believes this traditional dogma for a second. I certainly wouldn't put it past him to want you to believe that he does though.
This will appear more clearly to anybody who studies the conduct of Modernists, which is in perfect harmony with their teachings. In their writings and addresses they seem not unfrequently to advocate doctrines which are contrary one to the other, so that one would be disposed to regard their attitude as double and doubtful. But this is done deliberately and advisedly, and the reason of it is to be found in their opinion as to the mutual separation of science and faith. Thus in their books one finds some things which might well be approved by a Catholic, but on turning over the page one is confronted by other things which might well have been dictated by a rationalist. - Pascendi, Pope Pius X, 1907
Sad that this is “news”, but it is news.
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