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Pope Francis: Christians Should Not Fear Looking Like ‘Communists’
Breitbart ^ | February 19, 2019 | Thomas D. Williams , PH.D.

Posted on 02/19/2019 3:30:43 PM PST by ebb tide

Pope Francis: Christians Should Not Fear Looking Like ‘Communists’

Too many Christians shy away from the social gospel, Pope Francis said Monday, because they are afraid the Church will end up looking like the communist party.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: communists; francischurch
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To: mkmensinger

Good grief! Communists killed more people than fascists in the 20th century. What Christian wants to “look” like that?


21 posted on 02/19/2019 3:44:15 PM PST by salmon76 (Heaven has a wall, a gate and a strict immigration policy. Hell has open borders.)
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To: ebb tide

Okay, this is from the Onion or The Babylon Bee, right?


22 posted on 02/19/2019 3:45:14 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Ruh ROH>>>>> I have NO idea of what you speak! HELP!


23 posted on 02/19/2019 3:46:20 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: PGR88

A bona fide Christian faith movement in a country can then affect its politics to the good. But the movement has to be there for God’s own sake. We can never have the cart before the horse. Christians can never engineer earthly politics in the hope that, poof, it will cause faith to appear or unbelief to vanish.

I can’t fault Francis for wishing it were so, but he can be faulted for not understanding that it can’t be so. It has to depend on the sovereign Lord’s plans.


24 posted on 02/19/2019 3:46:56 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Ann Archy

The church got a political silver platter handed to it. The church survived as always due to Christ’s promise, but its heavenly sights were compromised.


25 posted on 02/19/2019 3:49:08 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Uncle Miltie; bray

Francis is certainly not afraid to look like a Communist.


26 posted on 02/19/2019 3:49:27 PM PST by A strike (I DEMAND my responsibilities!)
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To: NorthMountain

The social Gospel, aka the socialist Gospel, is not Biblical Christianity.


27 posted on 02/19/2019 3:51:03 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: ebb tide; Impy; BillyBoy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; Clemenza; AuH2ORepublican; SunkenCiv; ...

Dope Frank the Pretender needs to be forcefully ejected.


28 posted on 02/19/2019 3:51:59 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: ebb tide

Pope Stupid the First shoots more “wisdom” from his pie hole.

Yes, your idiotness, let us all embrace a movement that killed millions.


29 posted on 02/19/2019 3:52:05 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: ebb tide
Dear Pope,

God chose to ask for peoples hearts, and gave us free will to choose our path in life. God is all powerful, and thus didn't need to ask for anything. God could have 'willed us' to do what he desires us to do, independent of our free will and choice. But he didn't. God supports charity, not theft. God supports love, not coercion. Christ didn't run as a political candidate.

Matthew 6:24 - No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other, Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

You can't be a Marxist and serve God as a free individual giving your heart by your own free will.

30 posted on 02/19/2019 3:52:13 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: SecAmndmt
the socialist Gospel is explicitly condemned by the Church.
31 posted on 02/19/2019 3:52:23 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ebb tide

I guess we can go back to inquisitions then. Commies love torture ad so did the Roman church.


32 posted on 02/19/2019 3:53:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ebb tide

Pope Francis needs to read Marx’s position on religion.., and the retire due to senility.


33 posted on 02/19/2019 3:53:55 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: ebb tide

This is what you get when the Church decides to be PC and pick a Pope from a historical ignored region.


34 posted on 02/19/2019 3:53:56 PM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: ebb tide

“Social gospel”. Har, that’s a good one.


35 posted on 02/19/2019 3:54:06 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ebb tide

he just keeps sounding worse and worser, every single day

someone may wish to tell him that the little book by Karl Marx ISN’T the Holy Bible (he seems to have gotten them confused? maybe he lifted a copy of the Commie Manifesto by mistake the last time he stayed at the Motel 666?)


36 posted on 02/19/2019 3:55:13 PM PST by faithhopecharity (E)
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To: ebb tide

Not sure what’s worse, this guy or that Catholics let him remain in power. Either way, the world has lost.


37 posted on 02/19/2019 3:55:58 PM PST by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: ebb tide

This guy is a COMMUNIST, HERETIC, NUT! And anyone who follows him has serious issues.


38 posted on 02/19/2019 3:56:43 PM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: ebb tide

Because mass murder isn’t as bad as people say.


39 posted on 02/19/2019 3:57:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: ebb tide

paraphrased: “Don’t let your belief in ‘God’ get in the way of social(ist) justice.”


40 posted on 02/19/2019 3:59:20 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Old people ought to be bumped off when their usefulness is done." -- Eleanor Roosevelt)
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