Pope Francis Warns Against Preachers Who Sow Division Online

Catholic News Agency ^ | 6/23/21 | Courtney Mares

[marshmallow]

At his general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis warned against preachers who sow division and mistrust online.

“There is no shortage of preachers who, especially through the new means of communication, can disturb communities. They present themselves not primarily to announce the Gospel of God who loves man in Jesus, Crucified and Risen, but to insist, as true ‘keepers of the truth,’ ... what is the best way to be Christians,” the pope said June 23.

“And they strongly affirm that the true Christianity is the one they adhere to, often identified with certain forms of the past, and that the solution to the crises of today is to go back so as not to lose the genuineness of the faith. Today too, as then, there is a temptation to close oneself up in some of the certainties acquired in past traditions.”

Pope Francis said that these “new preachers” can be recognized by their “rigidity,” which contrasts with “preaching the Gospel that makes us free, makes us joyful.”

“The new preachers know neither meekness nor obedience,” he said.

The pope began a new cycle of catechesis this week on St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, which, he suggested, “seems written for our times.”

“It is a very important letter, I would say decisive, not only to get to know the Apostle better, but above all to consider some topics that he deals with in depth, showing the beauty of the Gospel,” the pope said.

Paul “addresses some very important themes for the faith, such as those of freedom, grace, and the Christian way of life, which are extremely current because they touch many aspects of the life of the Church of our day. This is a very current letter,” he added.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I hope Pope Soros flies around in helicopters a lot like Kobe.

[Pollard]

Sounds like our DOJ

[ebb tide]

Pot meets kettle.

[neodad]

As if Jesus never sowed division.....

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Did he mention Marxist popes?

[cuz1961]

They present themselves not primarily to announce the Gospel of God who loves man in Jesus, Crucified and Risen, but to insist, as true ‘keepers of the truth,’ ... what is the best way to be Christians,” the pope said June 23.\\

Log , meet eye.

And I thought Biden was dense.

[irishjuggler]

Another day, another Bergoglian screed against “rigid” traditionalists. Yawn. What would this scoundrel have to talk about if they took this topic away from him?

[bantam]

Not my Pope!
As a traditional Catholic, I hear I’m not wanted any longer by this marxist!

[Pollard]

I’m not Catholic. Just been observing for 40 odd years. Found out this morning about something called the Supreme Tribunal.

[lgjhn23]

He and Fauxi are having a contest to see who has the most credibility.

[Bloodandgravy]

If he dies first is it back to Benedict?

[Torahman]

It is a grossly flawed understanding of Galatians that brought the church into darkness. This guy is finishing the job of hiding the Truth of Torah. The results are all around us. He’s priming the pump for a global purge of those who still cling to a biblical faith. Welcome to the ghetto.

[Marchmain]

No. Usual conclave process would begin.

[Marchmain]

“Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.”

[No.6]

As a former Protestant (what of the theses remains to protest against?) and newly confirmed Catholic, I am amazed at the truth revealed by this poor pope — that the Spirit will not allow the Bride to fail. Amidst all this man’s attempts to sow ruin, we have a year dedicated to St. Joseph, through whose patience and quiet fidelity so much was accomplished.

[Faith Presses On]

Apparently Saul Alinsky has been translated into at least one language he reads!

[Faith Presses On]

He sounds like the CCP.

[daniel1212]

"that the Spirit will not allow the Bride to fail."

The Bride of Christ is not the RCC regardless of her arrogance, whose distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).

Rather it is the general spiritual body of Christ into which the Spirit baptizes every believer, ( Co. 12:13), the only one true church, since it alone always and only consists 100% of believers, while organic fellowships inevitably becomes admixtures of true and false believers.

May God peradventure grant you "repentance to the acknowledging of the truth." (2 Timothy 2:25)

[daniel1212]

"“And they strongly affirm that the true Christianity is the one they adhere to, often identified with certain forms of the past, and that the solution to the crises of today is to go back so as not to lose the genuineness of the faith. Today too, as then, there is a temptation to close oneself up in some of the certainties acquired in past traditions.” "

Nothing much different from so much past papal teaching, though Francis is: 'the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," "to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals by the Holy Church of God through its Supreme Pastor the Roman Pontiff," "of submitting with docility to their judgment," with "no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed... not only in person, but with letters and other public documents ;" and 'not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority, " for "obedience must not limit itself to matters which touch the faith: its sphere is much more vast: it extends to all matters which the episcopal power embraces," and not set up "some kind of opposition between one Pontiff and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide them," "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent." (Sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3578348/posts?page=14#14)