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To: Mrs. Don-o

Pope Francis......

...is the Pope.

I will say no more than to add: the Holy Spirit will protect him from teaching error.

This is my Faith. I know it is yours too. As it is every Catholic.

My parting thought (as well as the above): I feel the Holy Spirit uses men in ways we don’t expect. To keep our Faith alive.


31 posted on 05/24/2018 7:22:55 PM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: FourtySeven
Depends on what you mean by "teaching."

I certainly believe that no Pope will be able to teach error in such a way that he is formally demanding the adherence of faith from the whole Church for these errors.

I do think the reason Pope Francis is so devious and equivocating, and downright double-tongued --- relying on devious spokesweasels, "confidential" personal conversations that get leaked, ambiguous footnotes and the like --- is that he would *like* to proclaim outright heresy but finds that he cannot.

Sort of like the mercenary Balaam in the OT, who wanted to prophesy curses against Israel, but couldn't: only blessings would come out of his mouth.

32 posted on 05/24/2018 7:50:09 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (A person himself can be broken, but the body of holy Church never shall be broken. Julian of Norwich)
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