Posted on 06/29/2020 4:20:59 PM PDT by ebb tide
ROME — Pope Francis told the faithful Monday that Christians should avoid criticizing both civil and religious leaders because such complaints “change nothing” but instead create divisions in the community.
In the early Christian community, “no one said: ‘If Peter had been more careful, we would not be in this situation.’ No one,” Francis declared in his homily for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. “Humanly speaking, there were reasons to criticize Peter, but no one criticized him.”
“They did not complain about Peter; they prayed for him. They did not talk about Peter behind his back; they talked to God,” he added.
The pope — considered by Catholics to be the successor of Saint Peter — seemed here to be alluding to criticism aimed at his person, which, he suggested, causes disunity in the Church.
“Today we can ask: ‘Are we protecting our unity, our unity in the Church, with prayer?” Francis continued. “Are we praying for one another?’ What would happen if we prayed more and complained less, if we had a more tranquil tongue?”
It has occasionally been suggested that despite his frequent calls for dialogue and even respectful disagreement, Pope Francis has been derisive of conservatives and resistant to any constructive criticism.
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He even has the nerve to compare himself to Herod:
Again, in the early Church, “no one complained about Herod’s evil and his persecution,” he said. “No one abused Herod – and we are so accustomed to abuse those who are in charge.”
Ping
Why??? Because they’re “annointed”?
This Pope needs to meet God. Sooner the better.
We avoid it. It’s in tge tenets of the Church. So when it does happen it’s after careful consideration
Well, for one thing, Herod was dead - both Herod the Great and Herod Antipas - when the Church as such began to form. And while it’s true that the early Christians didn’t complain about persecutors such as Nero and his like, they opposed these rulers and that’s why they went to their deaths.
Bergoglio is a revolting statist who is foolish enough to think they’re going to make him King of the Hill. Being Pope isn’t enough for Bergoglio.
Personally, I think the “powers that be” are done with Bergoglio because they realize there’s not much more they can get out of him...he’s already betrayed the Church and given them everything they want. When a traitor has done his deed, nobody needs him anymore.
“When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.”—Galatians 2:11
I guess he glossed over Paul coming back to publicly rebuke Peter.
Why would anyone listen to the antipope? That is what stuns me.
The ImPopester has a thin skin.
Do not criticize, use the kind and gentle words of Jesus or the apostles (one of the following is not from them—can you pass this quiz?)
White washed sepulchres full of dead men’s bones.
Waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness have been reserved for ever.
Don’t worry, be happy. Have a nice day.
BULK. . . .
You mean ST.CATHERINE OF SIENA was wrong when she told the pope he was wrong....Annnd they made her a saint anyway.....
You mean ST.CATHERINE OF SIENA was wrong when she told the pope he was wrong....Annnd they made her a saint anyway.....
No one accused Herod because he would kill them. I am glad that he must mean that we should be charitable when speaking of the US president.
if this false Pope is not the False Prophet, then he is a satanic dry run for one.
I used to be a Catholic. I’m sorry my fellow brothers and sisters must put up with a pope like this.
The False Prophet of Revelation will soon order the world to worship the Antichrist.
According to Anne Catherine Emmerich, Our Lord was silent before Herod because He had contempt for him.
Wth
He should go back in time and tell that to Jesus Christ.
Jesus would send him straight to hell.
This pope is no pope, he’s poop.
He’s the kind that Hitler would put in his highest ranking position.
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