Bring back someone like this guy!
Posted on 04/16/2023 6:14:14 PM PDT by marshmallow
Vatican City, Apr 12, 2023 / 04:10 am Pope Francis has told “keyboard warriors” to put aside online polemics and get out from behind their desks to proclaim the Gospel.
Speaking in St. Peter’s Square on April 12, the pope urged Christians to go out and “get moving” to share the good news of the Gospel with the world.
“One does not proclaim the Gospel standing still, locked in an office, at one’s desk or at one’s computer, engaging in polemics like ‘keyboard warriors’ and replacing the creativity of proclamation with copy-and-paste ideas taken from here and there,” Pope Francis said.
“The Gospel is proclaimed by moving, by walking, by going.”
In his Wednesday audience, the pope warned that it is possible to have “misdirected zeal” that is “doggedly persistent in the observance of purely human and obsolete norms for the Christian community.”
“We cannot ignore the solicitude with which some devote themselves to the wrong pursuits even within the Christian community itself; one can boast of a false evangelical zeal while actually pursuing vainglory or one’s own convictions,” he said.
As part of the pope’s cycle of catechesis on “passion for evangelization,” Francis offered a reflection on two lines from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians: “Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground. So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate, and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace.”
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The gospel according to Frankie ...
Yes, he’s the expert. We should cede social media (nay, ALL media) to the leftists. Good idea.
Wait. Didn’t Francis just denounce the earlier Papal bulls on spreading the faith?
I’m so confused…..
Francis wouldn’t know the Gospel if it bit him in the ass.
When has he ever strayed from his usual dogma about global warming, social justice, and equating Islam with Christianity?
“..Francis wouldn’t know the Gospel if it bit him in the ass....”
^THIS^
would be great if Pope actually proclaimed the gospel and stood firm on the word of God instead of his anti God spewing he does.
Bring back someone like this guy!
Let me guess: the obsolete norm is the Latin Mass.
The gospel is summarized in chapters 3 and 4 of John’s gospel — The Messiah’s conversations with Nicodemus (3) and the Samaritan woman at the well (4).
It contains no gold. No pontiff, yea, no priest, no veneration of the host and nothing more than salvation by faith alone.
All the imperial trappings are human artifices not built on the one-and-only foundation of the Person of our Savior Jesus Christ.
Thw communist pope speaks...
Take your own advice Pope Marx.
Is he talking about Freepers ?
Was he seated at the time he said this ?
Oh, NOW he’s interested in the gospel? Ten years in, and he’s discovered the gospel? smh
He only talks about Christianity when he scolds Christians.
actually Frank- Christians do present the gospel online all the time- God said to proclaim it to the world- and the internet reaches the world- You sir can not say where the Holy Spirit will work- He works where He will as He will! Don’t box Him in by declaring that there is only one way for Him to work!
Hes burning in the pit along with every other pope
Yep.
It’s silly for Pope Francis to dismiss his critics as “keyboard warriors.” It’s kind of analogous to a 16h century pontiff poo-pooing Luther and Calvin as “printing press warriors with their 95-thesis screeds.” Belittle your critic at your peril. The internet is a communications tool. Period. If it had existed 2,000 years ago, St. Paul would have been emailing the Corinthians, Romans et al. on a daily basis.
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