Posted on 10/07/2017 6:26:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
Today millions of Poles are going to the peripheries of their country to say the Holy Rosary, which is a wonderful way to celebrate the feast of the Holy Rosary, it is also a demonstration of the power of the Polish Church. Could our English bishops or the Germans across one of Poland's borders be able to motivate such numbers of people?
The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is of course 'political', it marks the destruction of Islamic forces at the Battle of Lepanto, in the same way the importance of the conversion of Languedoc through St Dominic and the Rosary was important, because of the need to have strong Christian Lords on the borders of Christendom to counter the insurgence of Islam on the Iberian peninsula.
One political strand which I find interesting are the ecclesiastical politics of this event in Poland. Though Polish bishops would deny this was an anti-immigrant demonstration, the borders with Russia and the tensions there since the rise of Russian aggression against Ukraine and its other neighbours are as much a concern as the immigrant crisis. In Poland national identity is linked to its Christian identity. The British media see this event as an indication of Poland's far rightness.
For Catholics there has to be the question, "What would Pope Francis say? " though he has backtracked on open borders, as has Mrs Merkel, it seems pretty likely he would strongly disagree with the Polish bishop's and their people's actions. Yet the Polish bishops seem often in strong disagreement with the Pope, over Amoris Laetitia and JPII's magisterium, as much as over the issue of borders.
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Someone help me out. Wasn’t the last pope supposed to be the Last Pope? Prophesy. St Malachay, I think. Interesting how all of this is playing out.
Many of us have taken the position that the pope’s name is still Benedict.
As I said to a friend a couple of days ago, what was a tinfoil hat theory three years ago has become plausible.
God bless the people of Poland. Will any American press cover this?
I’m going to laugh when Frankie takes the big dirt nap and B16 is still alive. Somebody’s got some ‘splaining to do at that point.
Amen. And, amen...I pray for Benedict every night.
May God Bless the People of Poland. In Jesus holy Name, Amen.
Every nation has the right to defend itself.
Ann Barnhardt takes the position that the Pope is still Benedict:
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2017/09/
“Bergoglio must be publicly acknowledged to be an Antipope, and be removed. The Bergoglian Antipapacy must be nullified. Bergoglio must repent, revert to Catholicism, die in a state of grace and someday achieve the Beatific Vision. Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger must be acknowledged as the only living pope, and due to the circumstances, no conclave should be called until Ratzinger is dead. Pope Benedict XVI must also repent of what he has done, die in a state of grace, and someday achieve the Beatific Vision”
I doubt it. A dozen pro-abort Catholics they'll cover.
The miracle of the Rosary......Lepanto.
Saturday, October 7
Liturgical Color: White
Today is the Memorial of Our Lady
of the Rosary. Pope Pius V instituted
this feast in 1571 to honor the
Blessed Virgin for victory at the
Battle of Lepanto, which he
attributed to her intercession.
You’ve got to love the Poles!
This. Marxist clown is sure a far cry from JohnPaul.
So, assuming Benedict dies before Francis, will that make all of you sedevacantists?
Whatssamatta’? You feeling lonely? Looking for company?
Nope. I don’t need “company”. I am wondering whether these posters realize what they are saying because as the quoted poster said : that was a “tin foil hat” theory just 3 years ago.
Ratzinger resigned of his own accord. He's not being 'held prisoner in the Vatican' either (as the real tinfoliers at times assert). It's more like relaxed retirement.
Ann Barnhardt is a whack-job in this particular area, although that's not entirely her own fault-- she's trying to make sense out of something that should have never been (and was not) from the beginning of the Church.
The WHOLE problem is "believing" in what was a lie from the get-go.
A bishop of Rome is no "bishop of bishops" ranked over and above all others. That entire way of thinking is artifice.
Get rid of that idea (of 'Papacy' as those of Rome do define it).
There is no one "Pope" whom all must pay deference to. There was never supposed to be one "Pope" that all must pay deference to.
There is one Father, in Heaven, and that's it. Not that Father plus a human 'Papa' in a religious sense.
Yeah, I get it. You’re not Catholic.
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