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In Homily, Pope Again Warns Against ‘Rigid’ Focus on Commandments
Catholic Culture ^ | 2/5/17

Posted on 02/07/2017 7:58:20 PM PST by marshmallow

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1 posted on 02/07/2017 7:58:20 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

So, are they merely suggestions, according to the Pope?


2 posted on 02/07/2017 8:01:55 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( Agenda driven news is fake news.)
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To: marshmallow

What is this idiot babbling about now?

He is in his seventies and has one lung. Isn’t it time he left us and received his eternal rewards?


3 posted on 02/07/2017 8:02:01 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: marshmallow

what? My French Catholic grandmother always said, that a Christian who is living by the commandments is doing well.. which commandment does he suggest we loosen up on?


4 posted on 02/07/2017 8:04:40 PM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: marshmallow

blithering pope


5 posted on 02/07/2017 8:06:27 PM PST by onedoug
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To: longfellowsmuse

“Do I hide in the rigidity of the closed Commandments, that are more and more ‘safe,’ but that do not give joy, becaues they do not make you free?”

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Looks like we can escape from all of them in order to receive joy and to be free.


6 posted on 02/07/2017 8:08:17 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: marshmallow

Pope Fransoros


7 posted on 02/07/2017 8:10:59 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: longfellowsmuse

The Sixth Commandment, for one.


8 posted on 02/07/2017 8:11:10 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: marshmallow

Can this Pope be recalled?


9 posted on 02/07/2017 8:15:18 PM PST by willk (everyone)
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To: marshmallow

Pope Footnote prefers joy, so where there are Commandments and teaching of them is going on, there is rigidity.

According to Pope Footnote, the Commandments are not joyful, and rigidity is found in them. The Commandments are not joyful. They do not make you...”free”. They are not a gift.

In short, he teaches that they are a drag on his joy.


10 posted on 02/07/2017 8:17:02 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton :" Pope Fransoros "

There is more truth in that statement than one would beleive.
Pope Fransoros - the CHAOS pope !
"Many is the road,.. but narrow is the gate "

11 posted on 02/07/2017 8:19:50 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: marshmallow

Does this guy think he is getting through to anybody? He criticizes conservative Catholics repeatedly and he isn’t really teaching Catholic teaching to any non-Catholics.


12 posted on 02/07/2017 8:22:45 PM PST by Windy City Conservative
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To: marshmallow

Why doesn’t he just cut to the chase. I read the article. All he had to say was Acts 16:31 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.

A person that is truly saved will want to follow the commandments (not the suggestions) as well as the new command in the New Testament John 13:34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.


13 posted on 02/07/2017 8:23:34 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Maudeen

And the commandments of the Lord referred to inn context in 1 Cor 14:47, or the commandment of the Lord in 1 Thes 4:1-8 or 1 John 3:23.


14 posted on 02/07/2017 8:33:54 PM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: marshmallow

So what do we Catholics believe?


15 posted on 02/07/2017 8:34:29 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (There will come a time when those screaming Fascists are in fact the actual Facists. W Churchill)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

” The Ten Suggestions”


16 posted on 02/07/2017 8:35:38 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: marshmallow

I’m not convinced this Pope believes in God.


17 posted on 02/07/2017 8:37:18 PM PST by Eddie01 (It's 13 deg. F out and I want ice cream)
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To: marshmallow

I agree - and that is unusual! The 10 commandments were a part of the Old Covenant, which was totally replaced by Jesus.

Think of it this way - - The 10 commandments stood between us and a righteous God - keep them and remain in full communion with Him. As Jesus illustrated in the sermon on the mount, this was virtually impossible. However, Jesus fulfilled (completed) all of the requirements of the old covenant, and He now stands in place of the 10 commandments between us and a righteous God. And as God (the Father) looks upon us, He sees the perfection of His Son, Jesus. Thus, we - through Jesus - are fully acceptable to the Father. Thus, the 10 commandments have been made irrelevant! - replaced by the new commandment of Love - for God and each other. It really is that simple.


18 posted on 02/07/2017 8:37:35 PM PST by impactplayer
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To: Maudeen

Yep, it’s all just a snap o’ the fingers!


19 posted on 02/07/2017 8:39:36 PM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: marshmallow

“God created the world and then created man, the Pope said”

Well, at least he got that right.

As for the rest of the homily, I give it two pedo bears and three Karl Marx’s.


20 posted on 02/07/2017 8:40:50 PM PST by Mr. M.J.B.
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