Posted on 11/14/2020 9:14:49 AM PST by ebb tide
Which brings me to Pope Francis. He’s the first pope, really, to think that the Catholic church would be stronger if it embraced Diversity in its doctrines and moral teachings. Perhaps the first Christian ever to read St. Paul’s warning about a “new Gospel” and draw from it:
Yes! That’s what we need. A shiny new gospel all our own. It would be Pharisaical to insist on Jesus’ actual words. Instead we must take the principles we derive from stray Gospel passages, and teach what we know Jesus would have said, if he’d gone to Harvard in the 80s.
Of course if Pope Francis believed in God, things would be different. He might not hunt down and close little groups of monks and nuns who follow old-fashioned prayers and practices. (You know, as Joe Biden pledged to do to the Little Sisters of the Poor.) Nor would a theist pope have sent a known sexual predator, then-Cardinal Ted McCarrick, to sell out China’s Christians to its Communist regime, in return for an alliance against Trump’s America. I doubt that a theist pope would speak of salvation as a collective goal, which amounts to “saving the planet.”
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Biden is about as Catholic as the Pope is.
And just about as president as the Pope.
Sorta. Because while the Pope is an atheist, Biden is not a Catholic- other that having been baptized by a Catholic priest - but just another opportunist.
I’m not sure we’ve ever had a Catholic president.
et, while we have had our share of disagreements, I am in fFULL agreement with you here. The title should read The Second Atheist President Gets Congratulated by the First Atheist Pope.
JFK. But there exists a tape of an evangelist saying that he accepted salvation a short time before he was assassinated.
Sure he would.
If you call yourself a Christian, come out of that mess.
JFK was quite the playboy, even - like Clinton - in the White House. I’m not judging him - perhaps he repented, but he didn’t live like a practicing Catholic.
That family is a Roman Catholic dynasty.
Joe Sr. made his money bootlegging during Prohibition.
That family is cursed.
Biden is as much a Catholic as Bacon is Kosher.
No, thanks. I don't want to go to Hell.
Neither the EVIL Fake Catholic Plugs Biden nor the socialist abortion-emabling “Pope” are really Catholic.
God will hold them to account for enabling evil acts and promoting false doctrine.
May they both roast in hell, in agony, for all of eternity!
Thanks. It’s like Dave Barry’s year in review six weeks early.
If the Pope were a Christian, he would have tried to convert Joe.
Oh boy! A fake-Catholic media-anointed “president” congratulated by a fake pope named after a fake saint!!!!
https://hnp.org/orthodox-church-francis-of-assisi-was-no-saint/
I really don’t care about whom schismatics consider to be saints.
Awesome headline!
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