Posted on 05/20/2022 6:44:12 PM PDT by marshmallow
Vatican City, May 13, 2022 / 12:20 pm Pope Francis said on Friday that members of the Anglican Communion are “valued traveling companions” as Catholics take part in a worldwide synodal process.
Speaking to the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Dialogue Commission (ARCIC) on May 13, the pope said he hoped that Anglicans would contribute to the two-year initiative leading to the Synod on Synodality in Rome in 2023.
He said: “As you know, the Catholic Church has inaugurated a synodal process: for this common journey to be truly such, the contribution of the Anglican Communion cannot be lacking. We look upon you as valued traveling companions.”
The 85-year-old pope noted that in July he is due to travel to South Sudan with Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Anglican Communion.
The pope, who has been making his public appearances in a wheelchair since May 5 due to a torn ligament in his right knee, said: “As part of this concrete journey, I wish to recommend to your prayers an important step. Archbishop Justin Welby and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, two dear brothers, will be my traveling companions when, in a few weeks’ time, we will at last be able to travel to South Sudan.”
“The visit was postponed on account of the troubles in that country. My brother Justin is sending his wife ahead of us for the works of preparation and charity. This is the fine work he is doing with his wife, as a couple, and I thank her very much.”
He added: “Ours will be an ecumenical pilgrimage of peace. Let us pray that it may inspire Christians in South Sudan and everywhere to be promotors of reconciliation, patient weavers of concord, capable of saying no........
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Had the Anglican Church maintained its Moral Biblical teachings, there’s be something worthwhile to discuss. But them again, would the current pope want to build bridges with a church teaching morality?
So Pope Fagrancidis admits the Church of Pederasty are Fellow Travelers?
Anglicanism = bow to the king or be hung, drawn, quartered and disemboweled.
The Pope likes the Anglicans so much that it distresses him when one of them crosses the Tiber. See Michael Nazir Ali.
Has Francis ever successfully evangelized *anyone*?
Is this code for “fellow travelers”?
Yeah it was great when they were hanging and beheading us, so King Henry could create their false religion out of his underwear.
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