[Lurkinanloomin]

It all stems from the acceptance of homosexuality as normal.

It is not.

[Popman]

When Frankie the Marxist Pope resigns and every sex abuser priest is jailed, I’d turn my glaze to my non-RCC church.

We progs do a pretty good job of keeping our house clean, not perfect.

[BillyBoy]

>> Concern for Fellow Christians <<

Hmmm. Well, the "evangelical leaders" could start there by simply acknowledging Catholics ARE Christians, instead of an "unbiblical cult". Someone send Ray Comfort, Ralph Drollinger, and the rest of 'em a memo that Christianity didn't start in the 1600s.

[Missouri gal]

Vigano’s report was like removing the finger from the dyke. An explosion of revelations concerning misconduct by Pope Francis himself and those liberal prelates close to him has followed. Francis and his liberal allies lack the wisdom to see that their little false kingdom is falling down, but falling nevertheless. Not only sexual misconduct but financial misconduct and occult practices are intertwined with false teachings and bad liturgy.I believe the Catholic Church will survive, but it will look very different.

[MeganC]

While I would love to see the homosexual cabal that is destroying the Catholic Church from within crucified naked on cactus trees...I pray for our Catholic friends here on FR that their church can be made whole and pure again.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Resolution and absolution will require serious effort, and most likely require deep, structural reforms.

Reforms that the Catholic Church is structurally incapable of implementing IMO. Too many have a vested interest in the status quo. Too many will reflexively fight ANY change, kicking and screaming. The leadership is an unelected dictatorship that is more or less impervious to influence from it's flock. The Church has so much money that the current leaders can ride out the decline in luxury for decades to come. It has plenty of enablers that will continue to show up and finance it, even if they were to start holding pagan sacrifices on the steps of St. Peter's.

I agree that when the largest Christian Church is gravely wounded it's a very bad thing for Christianity as a whole.

[karnage]

“As goes Ireland, so will go the rest of Roman Catholic Christendom.”

Sez who?

[karnage]

DC is not the only swamp that needs draining.

[Gay State Conservative]

Worried...inasmuch as Marxists in the West,and elsewhere,will use this to try to destroy not just Catholicism but Christianity.

[HarleyD]

We are both evangelical Christians with strong ties to the Catholic Church and deep respect for it.

I would have loved to have heard Martin Luther or John Calvin's comments to such a statement.

[boatbums]

Some Catholics may regard the crisis in their church as a purely internal matter, and consider outside commentary unwelcome and intrusive, even if it is well-meant.

They must be reading the Free Republic Catholic Caucus threads! ;o)

[Biggirl]

Sadly I see the Evangelical churches the next ones to come under attack by the LBGT crowd

[Iscool]

In a similar vein, Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga of Honduras has excoriated a group of 50 Honduran seminarians for petitioning the Vatican to correct homosexual abuses going on in their seminary. We apparently are to believe that 50 seminaries are spreading malicious lies, while Madariaga, whose top aide resigned last July in the wake of charges of sexual and financial misconduct, is only speaking the truth.

Apparently the Catholic religion is still working at cranking out queer priests...

Guess it's like President Trump's DOJ and FBI...Everybody at the top is corrupt and there's no way to get any good guys up there...

There's got to be so few 'straight' priests and they surely know about the rapes and abuse going on around them, but have no one to go to that would help clean the swamp...

[YogicCowboy]

I have been in ministry - and I have been concerned for decades.

It is primarily about homoeroticism, which has infiltrated all denominations.

[Campion]

Forty years ago, virtually the entire population of southern Ireland turned out to welcome Pope John Paul II. A few weeks ago, the Irish population essentially shunned the visiting Pope Francis

I see a variable there that's not being held constant. Is it the cause of the change, or just correlated to it?

[Salvation]

BTTT!

[daniel1212]

We are both evangelical Christians with strong ties to the Catholic Church and deep respect for it.

Then the greatest concern should be that of the term "evangelical" being divorced from its historical emphasis on doctrine and conversion, including from Catholicism, and rejection of it as a valid church (though not without salvific Truths). And to a version of evangelical which is too often guilty of the same failings, and presents Catholicism as an esteemed true church they are in union with, despite its greatly liberal membership .

Rather, in both doctrine and morality those who seek to conform to the faith of the NT church as per the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what it believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels), need to be separate from both liberal Protestantism - which tends to be closest to Catholicism - and from the latter as regards spiritual fellowship, though contending for the core Truths and morality we agree on (at least Rome does officially).

I come far enough behind the purity, probity and passion of the prima NT church without being dragged back into a basically dead entity.

[editor-surveyor]

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“Christianity” is going up in smoke, and that’s OK.

It never was real; it was invented by Eusebius to please Constantine.

The real faith of Yeshua will live on and thrive in the evolving vacuum. Its growing world wide, expecially in the nations of east Asia.
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