Posted on 06/27/2016 7:09:10 PM PDT by ebb tide
As a Lutheran, I almost wish the Holy Father were a Lutheran, because then he would not be spewing so much heterodox drivel, along with too many of his bishops.
A lutheran wouldn’t want to be pope.
I think this Pope is an atheist in Papal Robes.
It is weird. He sounds Evangelical. How many churches are there? One, FReinds.
The Lutherans are welcome to him (if they can bear to accept someone as devoid of integrity as he has revealed himself to be).
“A Lutheran Cannot be Pope.”
But a Pope named Francis can be a declared Muslim given enough time.
The pope is talking about the October, 1998 agreed statement on justification between the Lutheran World Federation
and the Catholic Church. It doesn’t surprise me that there are people too dumb or mendacious to simply tell that truth.
If a marxist homosexual can be Pope then why can’t a Lutheran?
God Lord, I hope not. We broke from the Pope, never to return for numerous reasons. Highly ranked among those reasons is the notion that the Pope is useless. That has been so clearly demonstrated by ravings of the lunatic currently in that position.
Would this mean they’d start having pot luck dinners at the Vatican?
[Would this mean they’d start having pot luck dinners at the Vatican?]
Pot lucks come with the Baptists.
Right now I’d volunteer to be Pope.
That document, sponsored by Cardinal Ratzinger, is outright heresy. Only dumb people believe that it isn’t.
Why not? You’ve got an atheist now...
The Red Pope does the bidding of the elites.
Correct. Therefore, by divine law, he is not pope. Catholic teaching that supports the OP:
“Heretics and schismatics are barred from the Supreme Pontificate by the Divine Law itself, because, although by divine law they are not considered incapable of participating in a certain type of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, nevertheless, they must certainly be regarded as excluded from occupying the throne of the Apostolic See, which is the infallible teacher of the truth of the faith and the center of ecclesiastical unity” (Marato, Institutiones luris Canonici [1921] 2:184).
“Appointment to the Office of the Primacy. 1. What is required by divine law for this appointment... Also required for validity is that the one elected be a member of the Church; hence, heretics and apostates (at least public ones) are excluded....” "If indeed such a situation would happen, he [the Roman Pontiff] would, by divine law, fall from office without any sentence, indeed, without even a declaratory one. He who openly professes heresy places himself outside the Church, and it is not likely that Christ would preserve the Primacy of His Church in one so unworthy. Wherefore, if the Roman Pontiff were to profess heresy, before any condemnatory sentence (which would be impossible anyway) he would lose his authority” (Coronata, Institutiones Iuris Canonici [1950] 1:312,316).
Interesting, I thought Divine Law was based on and from Holy scripture...
Not on man’s or church traditions....
I learn about from these Catholic threads...
Given non-Catholics don’t believe in popes, why would this be surprising to you?
And just to add: quite honestly, for me it’s just common sense that the leader of the “Catholic” Church needs to be .... Catholic. Otherwise why not elect the Dalai Lama and claim he can still be the pope!?
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