Are you sure about that?
The Pope Commemorates The Reformation That Split Western Christianity
Posted on 05/20/2018 12:47:05 PM PDT by NRx
In her Nobel Prize-winning book Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Svetlana Alexievich interviews scores of Russians who lament the loss of the Soviet Empire, even as they recount its horrors in excruciating detail. The Soviet Empire may have been barbaric, but at least they were great! The world feared them! They had defeated Hitler! (No thanks to the British and Americans.)
Several unapologetic Soviets complain they lost their beloved empire without a shot. Why didn’t blood flow in the streets in her defense? They blame Mikhail Gorbachev. As one Soviet observes, the Communist system could withstand any challenge from below. It could suppress any revolution. Except one. What if the party’s leader was no longer a true believer? What if Gorbachev betrayed the cause from within the Kremlin, from the very top, where no one could stop him?
Ross Douthat ponders an analogous takeover within the Vatican in his new book, To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. What if Pope Francis isn’t Catholic? What if he aims to overturn centuries of dogma? What if he plans to stack the College of Cardinals with liberal allies who will ensure his revolution can’t soon be reversed? What if he banishes his conservative critics to the church’s periphery? Who, then, will enforce the teaching on sexuality and marriage preserved against Western cultural trends by the late Pope John Paul II and self-titled Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI? Indeed, how can the vicar of Christ so confidently dismiss the words of Christ on marriage and adultery from the Gospels?
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You are wrong here. His bookAmoris contains heresy. Teachings that go against infallible teachings of the Church. He is a heretic.
It was the mercy of God that gave us JPII.
Who are you to judge? Are you in RCC leadership??
Are you sure about that?
The Pope Commemorates The Reformation That Split Western Christianity
Who are you to tell Catholics which heretics we "have" to obey?
Well, even if he isn’t Catholic, probably he still S**TS in the woods when the need arises.
Do yourself a favor and read the Dubia.
Unam Sanctam tells you RCs have to. You have no choice in the matter.
Jorge Bergoglio, the heretic, was born long after Unam Sanctam.
Does this mean I can no longer use the Question “Is the Pope Catholic?” when responding to an obvious point of discussion?
Great, now I have to ask, “Are 40% of Democrats Socialists?”.
Funny that there’s a documentary out worshipping this guy and the leftist reviewers who hate Christians are praising it and him.
Urged by faith, we are obliged to believe and to maintain that the Church is one, holy, catholic, and also apostolic. We believe in her firmly and we confess with simplicity that outside of her there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins, as the Spouse in the Canticles [Sgs 6:8] proclaims: ‘One is my dove, my perfect one.
You are saying a dogmatic statement of one pope doesn't apply to another pope??
I am a Christian...a follower of Christ.
There is a difference.
I believe John 5:24.....do you?
24“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Doesn't matter; neither is Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
I thought most people knew he was a communist.
Nah bears are still faithful and true.
It’s pretty bad when even the non-Catholics are asking this question.
No LC-MS member wants to have false unity with the Roman church.
Note I say a specific conservative denomination. NOT A FRIGGING LIBERAL one that thinks its a grand idea.
In my opinion, Martin Luther was a frigging liberal.
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