Posted on 09/10/2021 3:13:15 PM PDT by ebb tide
Noto Bishop Antonio Staglianò, Sicily, praised on OsservatoreRomano.va (September 4), the John-Lennon song “Imagine,” saying that it “poetically reconfigures a new world” which - “without exaggeration”- is in line with the “magisterium of Fratelli tutti.”
An accomplished pop-singer and guitar player (“inventor of Pop Theology”), Staglianò has been singing “Imagine” for Christmas to his diocese because “Jesus too would have sung this song with conviction.”
The problem: The song starts with the words “imagine there’s no heaven” and later adds “and no religion, too.”
But this is no problem for Staglianò because “one must deny a paradise for which one kills and dies” – although there is no word about such a “paradise” in Lennon’s song.
Staglianò trivialises atheism by claiming that it is “a denial of a false God-idol that even Christians should deny (a God for whom to kill and make wars, 'because God wants it').” He should tell this to the millions of Christians murdered by militant atheists.
Interestingly, Staglianò refers in his article five times to Francis which points at the aim of so much craziness: a crazy bishop writes a crazy article in a crazy daily to attract the attention of a likeminded pope, hoping that such highfalutin craziness will promote him to the crazy Roman Curia after twelve years in a provincial mini diocese.
However, since July 2019, Staglianò has found a competitor in Giovanni Mosciatti who established himself as a “rock bishop” by playing the trumpet in a rock band the evening after his induction as Bishop of Imola.
Father Guido Sarducci.
Ping
“My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?”
Fr Guido has more brains than this.
I wonder if he is rapt with the verse about no possessions too? Because I will beet the dear Bishop has an awful lot of worldly goods.
I’m glad I left it long ago!
The heresies and the error were enough in the 70s, when I started reading the Bible and understanding Truth.
Now it’s just ridiculous! I really don’t know why more people don’t just “get right” with God!
And, if you don’t like what I have to say, mark it “Roman Catholic Only“ then you can have your private party.
I'm sad to see you go. But I wouldn't be surprised if you left sometime after VC II. Many catholics did.
I'll keep you in my prayers.
Where do you Catholics find these guys?
They’re worse than televangelists.
Maybe the Pope appointed him.
Let him be anathema. Maranatha!
THAT would not surprise me.
I left that church many years ago.. thank God.
Thank Him in person, if you ever get there.
No problem.
I left after two things:
1. Someone told me about having a personal relationship with Christ - a notion that was never presented after 25 years as a devoted RC. I diligently followed all the rules. I was faithful to all the observances and practice. I put my hope in my good works and my sacraments. I came to realize I was like a whitewashed tomb.
2. My priest spent his homily - for several Sundays in a row, begging for more money. The contrast between what was important to that church and what was important to God couldn’t have been clearer.
So I left.
Your prayers are fine. Thanks. (No “HMs” though. Not for me, anyway.)
I have a few fond memories of my first 25 years of religion, however. One is that I love to sing the “Lord’s Prayer”. It was introduced to Mass with an acoustic folk guitar accompaniment that drove some of the traditionalist congregation nuts!
Bye.
I now see why you left: it was VC II. Thanks for verifying.
No.
I told you why I left the apostate religion.
It’s not that hard. RIF, try it.
Again,
I left after two things:
1. Someone told me about having a personal relationship with Christ - a notion that was never presented after 25 years as a devoted RC. I diligently followed all the rules. I was faithful to all the observances and practice. I put my hope in my good works and my sacraments. I came to realize I was like a whitewashed tomb.
2. My priest spent his homily - for several Sundays in a row, begging for more money. The contrast between what was important to that church and what was important to God couldn’t have been clearer.
So I left.
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