Oh how I use to scoff at the “POPE=ANTICHRIST” Chick like rantings. Now I do fear that this Pope is certainly helping lay the groundwork for his arrival.
If further breaks to the teachings of the Church happen under PF’s watch at what point do faithful Catholics decide that the Seat of Peter is occupied by an anti-Pope?
“[He] then became a revolutionary advocating the total uprooting of Christianity, claiming that blasphemy, theft, homicide, every type of sexual perversion, incest, rape and sodomy were revolutionary achievements which were only considered to be criminal deceptions by the [Catholic] Church,” Ward stated. Switch “Catholic Church” with White, Christian Conservative and you have Barack Obama trying to be the notorious Marquis de Sade.
RELIGION & LIBERTY, 2010: The Principle of SubsidiarityOne of the key principles of Catholic social thought is known as the principle of subsidiarity. This tenet holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization.... This principle is a bulwark of limited government and personal freedom. It conflicts with the passion for centralization and bureaucracy characteristic of the Welfare State.
...Pope John Paul II took the “social assistance state” to task in his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus. The Pontiff wrote that the Welfare State was contradicting the principle of subsidiarity by intervening directly and depriving society of its responsibility. This “leads to a loss of human energies and... increase of public agencies... accompanied by an enormous increase in spending.”
In spite of this clear warning, the United States Catholic Bishops remain staunch defenders of a statist approach to social problems...
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