Posted on 04/08/2022 6:40:29 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis on Thursday recalled the 500th anniversary of the election of Pope Adrian VI, who sought reconciliation between the Catholic Church and Martin Luther during his short pontificate.
“In his brief pontificate, which lasted only a little more than a year, he sought above all reconciliation in the Church and the world, putting into practice the words of St. Paul, according to which God entrusted precisely to the Apostles the ministry of reconciliation,” Pope Francis said on April 7.
For this reason, Adrian VI sent the nuncio to the Imperial Diets of Nuremberg “to reconcile Luther and his followers with the Church, and expressly asking forgiveness for the sins of the prelates of the Roman Curia,” he stated.
“Courageous,” Francis added. “He would have plenty of work today.”
Pope Francis spoke about Adrian VI, who was elected in 1522, during a meeting at the Vatican with the community of the Pontifical Teutonic Institute of Santa Maria dell’Anima, a college for German seminarians in Rome.
Adrian VI is buried in the Roman church Santa Maria dell’Anima, which is connected to the seminary.
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Bergoglio could start reconciliation by allowing Protestants to take communion and to allow Catholics to take communion in Protestant churches.
I won’t hold my breath on this one.
What? Did they dig Luther up?
Keep going back say John Huss.
And Cupcake Cupich praises Bergoglio's attempts to reconcile with sodomites, adulterers, abortionists, etc.
That’s not rhe right thing to do.
They don’t agree as to what exactly is occuring with communion, they don’t believe the same things.
Neither should encourage joining together with the other when they don’t agree on something like this.
Syncretism and Unionism are the terms why this is wrong for either to do.
Unless you believe it is the actual body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus then no, you don’t get it.
It’s called Communion for that reason.
If you think that Jesus did not pay for sins committed in the past, present, and future, then the Roman mass is just fine.
Why would I want to go to a ceremony that says Jesus is insufficient?
Then there will be no reconciliation.
False reconciliation isnt reconciliation. Its just an act.
There’s no reconciliation with heretics.
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