The arrogant never choose to retire from a position of power, because they think themselves more important than the office.
Robert Mugabe, 92, the tyrant of Zimbabwe, has announced his plan to stand for president in 2018.
I think this Pope is very ideological. I don’t believe he would resign lightly, but will stay as long as possible to accomplish his Martinian reforms.
He has only been Pope for a little less than 4 years. Why does it feel like 4 centuries?
He has only been Pope for a little less than 4 years. Why does it feel like 4 centuries?
If, however, morality can change according to time and circumstances, the Church is destined to perish in the relativism of today's fluid society.
This is crux of the issue. Truth is timeless. What is fundamentally true today will be true tomorrow and will be true ten years or ten centuries from now.
What God has said is sin is sin today, is sin tomorrow and is sin forever.
The Episcopal Church, the Anglicans, the Methodist and many of the Liberal leaning churches have fallen in to this trap and are bleeding members. The Catholic Church has also seen dwindling attendance but not to the same degree.
The decline of the churches in my opinion is due to the church’s move to a humanistic approach to worship and moving away from a God centered worship.
What Pope Francis is doing with Amoris Laetitia extending humanism in to the institution of marriage and making the sin of adultery subject to individual conscience. (If the sin of adultery doesn’t bother my conscience it must be okay with God.)
Why would anyone need to go to church if all matters of sin are simply matters of personal whim?
It was truly the emergence of Thatcher, Reagan and JP2 that powered a resurgent western revitalization. Who can be the complimentary piece along with Trump and LePen?
sounds kinda like the catholic arguments, "how old is your church?" in a vain attempt to defend roman catholicism.
I did not know this. Another first step in the slippery slope. All brought to you by the same man that promulgated the non-Catholic Vatican II. The common thread keeps popping up all over the place!
I hope I am wrong, but I seriously doubt he would step down for any reason short of some kind medical incapacitation. And it needs to be remembered that rather perversely, on this subject he has church tradition on his side.
Well, we should all act upon our feelings, Mr. Pope...for instance, I feel that your political liberal pontificating has done damage to the Church.
Hopefully, it's not irreparable, but I feel that the sooner you are gone and your political liberal pontificating is gone with you, then a lot of folks will feel better.
So...don't let the door...well, you know.
Altough Pope Francis did mentioned at the end of the recent World Youth Day gathering in Poland this year that he will not be attending the next which will be in Panama.
We can only hope he resigns.. He is an embarrassment
My respects to de Mattei for pointing out the immunity to logic, if not the cynicism, of these “Conciliar Church” (in Cardinal Benelli’s words) popes. It is wishful thinking to expect them to apply to themselves the logic of the laws they impose on their subordinates.
Sorry; #NeverTrump's of the Catholic world; but there IS no Electoral college you can try to influence here!
Wittenburg had best set a guard at the doors!!