On my way to Mass, checked my FR. Saw this post and thought “ oh boy the anti-Catholic Freepers will have a hay-day with this.” You didn’t disappoint. Ya’ll have almost as many vile things to say about my peeps and me as you do about the Religion of Peace . Not sure where it comes from. BTW I think the present Pope is an evil commie but I will never turn my back on my Church.
A little over reaction. My comments were about trotting a human heart around for viewing....catholic or not, that’s just bizarre. That’s all I was commenting on. Nobody wants you to turn your back on your church, but you have to admit that this is a little on the dark side.
Agree. Sometimes they forget Catholics are Christians, too. Can’t stand the pope, but I love my saints. The nice thing about living in New York is we have lots of Catholics.
So you yourself oppose those who support Francis yet condemn those who oppose your church. And you do not know where it comes from, though both as a result of being contrary to historical belief.
For distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels), which is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation.
Moreover, the RCC simply does not support rejecting a validly elected pope as being so, and rather than the laity being the judge of what constitutes valid papal teaching, popes from another era taught such commands,
''the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," "to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals by the Holy Church of God through its Supreme Pastor the Roman Pontiff," "of submitting with docility to their judgment," with "no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed... not only in person, but with letters and other public documents ;" and 'not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority, " for "obedience must not limit itself to matters which touch the faith: its sphere is much more vast: it extends to all matters which the episcopal power embraces," and not set up "some kind of opposition between one Pontiff and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide them," "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent." (Sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3578348/posts?page=14#14)
Not to worry; as we'll leave your veneration of your current pope to yourselves.
It's always the CHURCH with you guys.