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Posted on 11/16/2016 6:21:40 PM PST by marshmallow
In October of 2016, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the head of the German Bishops’ Conference, along with Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the head of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), together made an official visit to Israel. In spite of the fact that this visit was meant to be an ecumenical event, it turned out, in part, to be something very different.
That is to say, the two most prominent representatives of German Christendom – Catholic and Protestant alike – caused a national debate by hiding their own distinctively Christian symbol and Sacred Sign – the Pectoral Cross – while they were both visiting the Jewish Wailing Wall as well as the Muslim Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount.
Kath.net, the Austrian Catholic news website, has amply reported on the developments after the release of these pictures showing the two Church representatives without their visible and publicly worn Christian symbols. Major national newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Welt, and the more populist tabloid Die Bild, have reported on this disturbing fact and have thus allowed further criticism of this obvious submission to the preferences of the two other world religions.
On 7 November, Peter Winnemöller, one of the regular contributors to Kath.net, commented on this incident with the words: “Certain pictures should not exist.” In a piercing way, the author recounts some of the responses to this unworthy public gesture. In the newspaper Bild am Sonntag the author Miriam Hollstein says that, after Jesus picked up His Cross 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, the bishops now laid it down there. A symbolic gesture of infidelity or dishonorable obsequiousness.
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They aren’t hiding it because of the Jews. Jews are used to Christians coming to the Temple Mount. They are doing it to not offend the Muslims.
REINHARD MARX?
Lol. Hard to believe that there is a CARDINAL with that name. How times have changed.
Looks like Santa.
Deny Jesus and He’ll deny you.
Jesus will give us chance after chance after chance to change our hearts. Why would ANYONE deny Him...after Holy Thursday to Good Friday? He SUFFERED and DIED for us.
How does that Scripture passage go, if you deny him he will deny you...?
Cardinal Marx... second best name for a cardinal after Cardinal Sin (who was a cardinal from the Philippines).
Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 10:32-33)
You cannot have any symbol of idolatry in any synagogue or Hashem’s temple.
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