Posted on 05/09/2019 9:50:40 AM PDT by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY, May 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― Pope Francis extolled the fact that not all people yet believe in Christ in a recent speech he gave to the Swiss Guards.
On Saturday, May 4, the pontiff told the elite force who serve as his bodyguards that life in the barracks would prepare them for life in the wider, rapidly changing society outside.
“Above all you have the opportunity to create healthy friendship and train yourselves to respect the peculiarities and the idea of others, learning to recognize in the other a brother and a companion with whom to share serenely a stretch of the road,” he said in Italian.
“This will help you to live in society with the right attitude, recognizing cultural, religious, and social diversity as human wealth and not as a threat. This is particularly important in a world where there are, as never before, large movements of populations and people searching for security and a dignified life.”
Pope Francis’s endorsement of religious plurality follows his February signing of a controversial statement called the “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” which states that a “pluralism and diversity” of religious is “willed by God.”
The document was also signed by Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar mosque, during an interreligious meeting in Abu Dhabi on February 4. The event was part of Pope Francis’s three-day apostolic visit to the United Arab Emirates, a journey meant to promote interreligious dialogue and support the country’s estimated 1 million–strong Catholic minority.
The most obviously controversial passage of the document reads:
Freedom is a right of every person: each individual enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression and action. The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives. Therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept.
The idea that “God not only permits, but positively wills, the pluralism and diversity of religions, both Christian and non-Christian” was presented as one of Pope Francis’s heresies by the authors of the April 30 “Open Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church.” The authors cited the “Document on Human Fraternity” in their letter.
In February, a Dominican theologian, who wished to remain anonymous, told LifeSiteNews that the controversial passage “in its obvious sense is false, and in fact heretical.”
“The various religions say incompatible things about who God is and how He wants to be worshipped. Therefore they cannot all be true. Therefore God, who is truth, cannot will all religions,” he stated.
Responding to those who defended the pope’s statement by invoking God’s “permissive will,” the Dominican theologian said:
God permits non-Catholic religions to exist; but permitting something is not a way of willing it, it is a way of not willing to prevent it. Thus God permits many innocent people to be killed, but He does not will it. We would not talk about God’s permissive will for Jews to be gassed, for example.
Life in the barracks of the Swiss Guards is not religiously, culturally, or socially diverse. According to the Roman Curia, membership in the Swiss Guards is limited to a very specific kind of person. Even today, Swiss Guards are chosen from unmarried Swiss Catholic men aged between 19 and 30 who are over 174 cm (5’8.5”) tall.
Ping
“train yourselves to respect the peculiarities and the idea of others”
Just don’t lose your head over it.
Maybe the pope should just go ahead and convert to the religion he prefers.
He’s not Catholic folks. Once you accept this, it begins to stop bothering you.
Peaches make the best sushi.
I have never before hated a Pope.
Never.
Until this one.
The first Pope who isn’t even Catholic.
Now THAT’S diversity.
God must find Francis less than amusing. In fact I can feel the electricity in the air of God’s righteous anger at the evil in our world.
Francis is a disciple of Man, not God.
Pope Francis’ Muslims submit to Allah (who never had a son).
I guess this is his way of saying ‘diversity is our strength’.
That’s funny. The Swiss Guards are the guys who have to go down gambl’n to save the Pope’s as*, when the wolves are at the door.
Not ONE of them can walk away from a dead Pope
“He’s not Catholic folks. Once you accept this, it begins to stop bothering you.”
True, but many still follow and listen to him. There are people who use his heresy to justify doing things they ought not to be doing (to put it lightly).
In short - what you say is true but souls are being lost. Maybe forever.
“That is one Crazy Pope!”
From EuroTrip
Maybe the Swiss Guard can go Praetorian on this heretic and treat him like the Praetorians did Caligula.
Never before was, “Is the Pope Catholic?” such a serious question.
Dear God, would you please fire this pope. It’s obvious he is not a Christian.
>http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/07/diversity-destruction.html<
...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one's own family.
Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.
Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday's Diversity is today's intolerable lack of Diversity.
Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.
Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.
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