Without Christ, Church’s Mission is Just ‘Social Activism’ Pope Says

The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 10/30/18 | Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

[marshmallow]

'The condition of every mission in the Church is that we are united to the Risen Christ', the Pope said

If one’s work as a Catholic is not united to Christ Jesus, it is no longer the “mission” to which the Church is called, Pope Francis told a group of religious brothers Monday.

“Let us not forget that the condition of every mission in the Church is that we are united to the Risen Christ as branches to the vine. Otherwise what we do is social activism,” the pope said Oct. 29.

“This is why I repeat to you the exhortation to remain in [Christ],” he continued. “First of all, we need to let ourselves be renewed in faith and hope by Jesus alive in the Word and in the Eucharist, but also in sacramental forgiveness. We need to be with him in silent adoration, in lectio divina, in the Rosary of the Virgin Mary.”

Pope Francis addressed around 45 members of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo, commonly called “Scalabrinians” after their founder Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, during their 15th general chapter meeting in Rome.

In spontaneous remarks before the start of his prepared speech, the pope spoke about the Old Testament passage that says to receive the stranger, “for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

[marshmallow]

More gaslighting from Bergoglio.

[BipolarBob]

Is this his confession to the world?

[PeterPrinciple]

Exo 32:5 Aaron saw how excited the people were, so he built an altar in front of the calf. Then he announced, “Tomorrow will be a festival to the LORD!”

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Aaron, thought putting an alter to the Lord in front of the calf would work. Putting Jesus in front of social activism won’t work either.

As always, get your Bibles out and read it in context...………….

[eastsider]

“Thank you, panel. And now, will the real Vicar of Christ please stand up.”

[ebb tide]

In spontaneous remarks before the start of his prepared speech, the pope spoke about the Old Testament passage that says to receive the stranger, “for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

He condemned what he characterized as a “wave of closure” toward foreigners, and attacks carried out on foreign people, recalling that he himself is the son of a migrant who came to Argentina.

When was the last time Bergoglio preached the Risen Christ to his favorite illegal immigrants, the muslims?

[heterosupremacist]

‘Social Activism’ is what Bergoglio is all about.

Irony, re-defined: social activism sums up his lifetime in two words...

[Pollard]

Yeah, we noticed. Thanks for helping to spread islam btw

[heterosupremacist]

*When was the last time Bergoglio preached the Risen Christ to his favorite illegal immigrants, the muslims?* Deo Gratias, if that guy ever had the opportunity to do so, he would embarrass himself and Our Church, doing incalculable damage to both. I cringe every time he has anything to say.

[Olog-hai]

He’d have to preach the crucified Christ first, never mind the fact that He is the Son of God, something the Koran denies in several verses (making the Koran written in the spirit of Antichrist).

[Olog-hai]

Yes. Again with trying to draw a nonexistent concord between Christ and Belial.

[Olog-hai]

How many does he have to make?

[ZULU]

The Vatican should have a giant flush mechanism to flush that Turd Bergoglio right into the Cloaca Maxima along with other crap in the city.

[heterosupremacist]

He’d have to preach the crucified Christ first, never mind the fact that He is the Son of God, something the Koran denies in several verses (making the Koran written in the spirit of Antichrist). It reads like an amateur attempt at fiction, and although it is [unintentionally] hilarious at times, it is basically incomprehensible. It is unfathomable to me anyone can consider it "scripture."

[Pelham]

I thought that social activism was Pope Fraud’s goal.

[BipolarBob]

I thought that social activism was Pope Fraud’s goal.

It is. And being as to he's without Christ, he thought he'd be making a statement to that effect.

[Pelham]

Just as I suspected; he was clarifying his position, rather than criticizing others.

[high info voter]

When is the church going to take the message of salvation in Christ to the muslims??????

[eastsider]

Cloaca Massima

[Olog-hai]

In spontaneous remarks before the start of his prepared speech, the pope spoke about the Old Testament passage that says to receive the stranger, “for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” …

More out-of-context leftist twisting, just like when part of 2 Thessalonians 3:10 appeared in Article 12 of the 1936 Soviet constitution.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say to receive the invader instead of repelling him.

[ZULU]

Cloaca Maxima per original Latin.
I don’t speak Italian. :)