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Francis: “I don’t separate Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants”
Gloria TV ^ | August 9, 2019 | Gloria TV

Posted on 08/09/2019 8:10:47 PM PDT by ebb tide

Francis: “I don’t separate Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants”

Pope Francis is happy that the former German war minister, Ursula von der Leyen, a pro-gay ideologist, is the new President of the European Commission, the EU’s main executive body.

"Women unite," Pope Francis told the Italian daily La Stampa (August 9). For him the main challenge for the EU is "dialogue," although he himself kills any form of dialogue in his own Church.

Those who are critical of mass-immigration resemble according to Francis to "Hitler in 1934."

Francis uses the pro-life expression "right to life" to propagate mass-immigration claiming [falsely] that illegal mass-immigrants into Europe escape "war" or "hunger." He comes up with the bizarre proposal to move "migrant communities" into "semi-empty towns" in Europe which then would "revive the economy of the area."

Francis claims that the EU should be relaunched on [nebulous] "human values." Only then he mentions nebulous "Christian values," adding quickly, "When I say this, I don't separate Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants."

He believes that the Amazon Synod will be "guided by the Holy Spirit," as if this were a supernatural event. Abolishing celibacy is "simply one topic of the Instrumentum Laboris," he explains.

For this world, Francis fears most the "disappearance of biodiversity", "new lethal diseases" and a "devastation of nature."

A big part of the interview is about the European Union, melting glaciers, Siberian wildfires, the Overshoot Day, oxygen, biodiversity, fertilizer, open-cast mines, Greta Thunberg. None of this is the business of the See of Peter.



TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

“Yet, catholics will not disown him. “

The bishops put him there. The fact that the creme de creme of the Catholic Church placed such a leftist politician in St. Peter’s chair speaks volumes about what has happened to the Catholic Church.

The problem is not just this Pope. The problem is systemic.


21 posted on 08/09/2019 9:14:24 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Bulwyf

Is that what you think Jesus founded on the apostles?


22 posted on 08/09/2019 9:17:21 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Jesus declared in Mark 13:23 ... But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

This was long before any jot or tittle of the so called New Testament was ever placed upon plant fibers, animal skins, or chiseled into stone. Traditions of men make the WORD null and void. Reason why there will be an education period called the Lord’s day.


25 posted on 08/09/2019 10:43:22 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: ebb tide

Yes well when the pope says he sees no difference between RC, Orthodox and Protestants it means he stands for nothing. He doesn’t care about Holy Tradition, he doesn’t care about the Holy Mysteries. He doesn’t care about Apostolic Succession. How could anyone pledge allegiance to him? He stands for nothing. He’s like the frog that was neither hot or cold. Lukewarm. Therefore God will spit this charlatan out of his mouth.
I don’t think this communist pope sees a difference between Islam and Christianity. Even on the face of continued Muslim terrorism. His only goal is to recoup all the money the RC lost and will loose from lawsuits caused by the perverted homo and otherwise child molesting priesthood.


26 posted on 08/10/2019 3:47:22 AM PDT by Chuck N
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

“Yet, catholics will not disown him.”

This Catholic disowns him. He’s a manifest heretic. Yet I am not going to surrender the Church to him because, as the saying goes, “That would be letting the terrorists win.”


27 posted on 08/10/2019 3:52:01 AM PDT by utahagen (but but)
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To: CdMGuy
Bergoglio is worse than corrupt, and I now think he's worse than a mere heretic. I suspect he's an atheist. And he obviously hates the Church and wants to destroy it.
28 posted on 08/10/2019 3:56:03 AM PDT by utahagen (but but)
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To: Salvation

I cannot apologize for someone else, but I regret that a fellow Catholic called you “stupid”. We orthodox — small “o” here need to stick together during these times.


29 posted on 08/10/2019 3:57:43 AM PDT by utahagen (but but)
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To: editor-surveyor

If you might name the specific Popes who “carried out the . . . . mass slaughter of the Jews” you would advance your case.

I’m opposed to all the speakers of the house who covertly formed seditious alliances with martians. Who wouldn’t be? However, naming names helps to establish that what I am opposing is not merely a figment of some one’s imagination, whether my own, or someone whom I trust.


30 posted on 08/10/2019 4:19:37 AM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: utahagen

“...atheist...obviously hates the Church...”

Agree. Look at his eyes - scary.


31 posted on 08/10/2019 4:53:29 AM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I’ve disowned him.


32 posted on 08/10/2019 5:21:34 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: ebb tide
For starters:

Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]:19

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy.

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured .[1]:153

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[1]:204

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony.[1]:218

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

33 posted on 08/10/2019 5:58:29 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Jesus built his church and that’s where my belief comes from. Religion is man made. Catholics have killed millions of Christians over the years, so it’s quite insulting to insinuate they have the same origins.

If you actually took the time to see what the Vatican teaches versus what the Bible says, you will have your eyes opened.


34 posted on 08/10/2019 6:47:47 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Salvation

I didn’t call you stupid.

Enjoy!


35 posted on 08/10/2019 6:57:26 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: plain talk
The problem is not just this Pope. The problem is systemic.

As are ALL governing bodies directed by men, not God.

36 posted on 08/10/2019 7:34:06 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: ebb tide

Well, the rest of us will do the work the Pope won’t do.


37 posted on 08/10/2019 8:27:52 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: ebb tide

“I don’t separate Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants”

Well, we (Orthodox) do. We do so in love. But you don’t do anyone a favor by telling them that whatever they want to believe is OK. Truth is not relative.


38 posted on 08/10/2019 10:15:22 AM PDT by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: ealgeone; ebb tide

These people were all corrupt. In some cases, spectacularly so. But AFAIK none of them attempted to undermine the basic faith of their church. (FTR I am Eastern Orthodox and we tend to roll our eyes at the whole “infallibility” claim.) Francis appears to be in something of a class by himself. There have been a few popes who strayed close to, or slightly over the boundary line of Roman Catholic orthodoxy. But none have so openly trampled on that line until now.


39 posted on 08/10/2019 10:28:22 AM PDT by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: utahagen

How has what he said in the OP any different than what Vatican II and the rest of the Vatican II popes have been saying and teaching when they teach and profess the Catholic Church merely SUBSISTS in (Rather than IS) Christ’s Church? Which completely contradicts Catholic teaching prior to it.


40 posted on 08/10/2019 10:40:16 AM PDT by piusv (Francis didn't start the Fire)
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