Cardinal Tells Catholics Who Protest Pope to Become Protestants

Church Militant ^ | January 27, 2020 | Jules Gomes

[Maris Crane]

Dear Cdl Basetti,

Neither you, nor the phony pope currently in the Vatican, will chase ME from MY Church.

I will never be separated from MY Beliefs, the Church’s tenets or my relationship with the Lord.

It is you and francis who will have to face Him with answers to WHY you chose to be heretics.

I’m at peace. Are you and your friend?

[Luircin]

If you think that condescending kind of comment will get people to consider being Catholic, you are quite mistaken.

[Maris Crane]

I am sorry for offering my comment for an answer to Salvation’s post. I hope you forgive my intrusion.

You accused Salvation of being arrogant, I think. We, as Catholics are taught that if you are baptized into the Catholic Faith, you are Catholic forever. Just as a Catholic Priest who is ordained, notwithstanding his leaving the priesthood,...will ALWAYS be a priest.

I guess that sounds pompous, but that is what we believe.

I apologize again for interfering, but Salvation offering a suggestion that was, I’m sure, well meant.but it is what we a
re taught

, but it is what we are taught

[Luircin]

Yes, I understand it’s what you believe. I won’t mock you personally for that belief, and I apologize for possibly coming across like that.

The problem is the “talk to a priest” comment. It’s like the left-winger retort of “educate yourself.” It comes across as calling people ignorant or stupid.

It’s just not a good way to convince people, and you’ll get reactions like I’ve been giving.

[ealgeone]

You are always a Catholic, once baptized one. You may be an inactive Catholic right now, but you are still a Catholic.

All it takes to come back is to sit down and talk with a priest and get your questions answered.

*****

Which priest?

What if someone had an audience with the pope? Is that acceptable to you?

What if the poster is an adolescent and happens to get a priest who likes to molest boys?

See the danger in your open ended suggestion?

[Bishop_Malachi]

You are always a Catholic, once baptized one. You may be an inactive Catholic right now, but you are still a Catholic.

All it takes to come back is to sit down and talk with a priest and get your questions answered.

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Of course you are right. It would take a miracle to transform the highest leadership of the RCC back to one that follows the Faith deposited on this Earth by Jesus Christ. I still pray for the RCC.

[Elsie]

Gualtiero Bassetti has assured himself a place at the table when the summer cookouts at the Vatican begin.

[Elsie]

You’ve not heard of the Eastern Orthodox?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, I give Luther his due respect for declaring himself, early in his reforming career, to be against the burning of fellow Christians in principle, even if they differed in their expression of the Faith.

But...

He later made a U-turn against the Anabaptist peasant rebels, and the Jews.

"In two of his later works, Luther expressed antagonistic, violent views towards Jews, and called for the burnings of their synagogues and their deaths. His rhetoric was not directed at Jews alone, but also towards Catholics, Anabaptists, and nontrinitarian Christians." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther

Luther: "Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay, and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel."

In 1526 Luther wrote: "I, Martin Luther, have during the rebellion slain all the peasants, for it was I who ordered them to be struck dead."

Also quoted in Wikipedia: "Luther advocated setting synagogues on fire, destroying Jewish prayerbooks, forbidding rabbis from preaching, seizing Jews' property and money, and smashing up their homes, so that these "envenomed worms" would be forced into labor or expelled "for all time". In Robert Michael's view, Luther's words "We are at fault in not slaying them" amounted to a sanction for murder."

:o/ Well, there was a lot of that going around at the time >:o\

--- none of it was justified, and everyone (of any religious faith, or none) who engaged in oppression and murder, will face the same Judge and have to answer for it in the same way.

[Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey]

Sorry ... that's a big "No".

Read some St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church

I am no Ultramontanist, nor a Sede, nor a Prot....

#notreallysorry