Posted on 09/15/2017 4:07:20 AM PDT by Repent and Believe
Untold generations of faithful, gullible southern European peasants have been taught this by self-serving, unrepentant homosexuals gold-plating the "priesthood" for their own enrichment. I worry about the faithful being gulled into error and possibly endangering their salvation. The fate of cynical, unbelieving wolves in sheep's clothing called "priests" who have been responsible is in God's hands.
Garbage.
Thousands of priests throughout the ages through their diligent self-sacrificing passionate love for Christ have led sinners to repentance: drunks to sobriety, impure to purity, cowards to martyrdom, silly fools to pious scholars, selfish hoarders to generous benefactors.
Yet there are heretical sects whose lips have been trained to avoid any such facts in all discourse.
Interesting.
... and there are thousands of cases of sexual abuse at the hands of priests on backlog and not being prosecuted right now. That on top of many more thousands going back decades. Your Pope is advocating every tenet of socialist governance and leftist social mores.
But here you are, befuddled apparently. What you want to be so, and what is, are clearly two entirely different things.
My whole point in posting the video was to be a springboard to announce that:
(from my original comment) “...That man in the car is NOT the Pope, he is an imposter, a destroyer, and it’s high time folks start to recognize and insist on it...”
In light of your misunderstanding of my position, I would add that the thousands of “priests” which you state are being prosecuted right now, are NOT priests but like the imposter pope, along with the recent “Popes” they are imposters, based on the recent 50 year history that occurred where the many apostates redefined the priesthood and the sacraments and thus invalidated themselves and their works and severed themselves from the Catholic Church.
Thus the priest, Martin Luther, who also left the Church, just as Jorge Bergoglio (”Francis”) did, is not MY PRIEST, and never was, except only in as much as Judas was Jesus’ apostle but he left the ministry unto (apparent) damnation.
Of course we know that the bigger issue here is that “Pope” Francis is doing worse harm with the souls of Catholics than their bodies.
So, you’re clinging to an individual interpretation of what constitutes your church.
You realize you’re a Protestant now, don’t you?
I rather suspect not, on the basis of your deluded replies here, admirable in some contexts though they well may be.
Good luck with reforming your very corrupt and sinful hierarchy. Better men have tried and failed.
MY church?
There is but one church.
Regarding your reforming MY very corrupt and sinful hierarchy, see my tagline. Now, THAT is something to ponder, eh?
“Your” church is demonstrably different from your Church now, isn’t it? There is one body of believers and I will assume you belong to it. Putting your faith into an assembly of sinful men and a pile of bricks is a fool’s errand, it will always let you down and lead you astray.
“Of course we know that the bigger issue here is that “Pope” Francis is doing worse harm with the souls of Catholics than their bodies.”
Precisely.
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