Posted on 09/28/2018 5:48:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
I like that.
I think you’re confusing the Holy Spirit with magic.
“He raised up through the ranks of the CoC. They knew exactly who he was and what he would do. They just didn’t expect the sheeple to figure it out so quick.”
If you knew a bloody thing about Pope Francis, you’d know that as an Argentine prelate, he was famous for his OPPOSITION to the liberation theology he now exemplifies in everything but name, that he railed against smuggling humans across the Chile-Argentine border, etc.
Of course, then he was kissing ass of the right-wing (not conservative) junta; now he’s kissing ass of the left-wing world NGO networks.
then they are worse than idiots
Actually I was trying to say the Holy Spirit is NOT magic, but many people believe so. Ie the Cardinals consciously select the pope... not magic and not the Spirit. It is error to believe thru some mystical power these men are having their faculties shut down while the Spirit takes over and manipulates their brain, hand, voice, etc. Human beings select the pope.
bump
He was a minion to other powers then. He’s a minion to other different powers now.
Leopards do not change their spots. They may change owners, though.
I added an explanation how one man could be so radically different at different points in his career, but my main point was that they certainly did NOT choose him, as you said, because they anticipated this leftism.
It is my understanding that the pope is elected from the college of cardinals?
They forced Benedict out, they knew what they were doing.
Does that mean their prayers would have been answered differently and the color of the smoke would have never indicated a new Pope had been chosen?
You mean they don’t depend on the leading of the Holy Spirit?
Maybe if they had asked Him first, this wouldn’t have happened.
I don’t believe they didn’t know what he was like, and if they didn’t know him that well, they had no business electing him.
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