Posted on 12/29/2014 1:02:45 PM PST by bestintxas
He has been called the “superman pope”, and it would be hard to deny that Pope Francis has had a good December. Cited by President Barack Obama as a key player in the thawing relations between the US and Cuba, the Argentinian pontiff followed that by lecturing his cardinals on the need to clean up Vatican politics. But can Francis achieve a feat that has so far eluded secular powers and inspire decisive action on climate change?
It looks as if he will give it a go. In 2015, the pope will issue a lengthy message on the subject to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, give an address to the UN general assembly and call a summit of the world’s main religions.
The reason for such frenetic activity, says Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, chancellor of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, is the pope’s wish to directly influence next year’s crucial UN climate meeting in Paris, when countries will try to conclude 20 years of fraught negotiations with a universal commitment to reduce emissions.
“Our academics supported the pope’s initiative to influence next year’s crucial decisions,” Sorondo told Cafod, the Catholic development agency, at a meeting in London. “The idea is to convene a meeting with leaders of the main religions to make all people aware of the state of our climate and the tragedy of social exclusion.”
Following a visit in March to Tacloban, the Philippine city devastated in 2012 by typhoon Haiyan, the pope will publish a rare encyclical on climate change and human ecology. Urging all Catholics to take action on moral and scientific grounds, the document will be sent to the world’s 5,000 Catholic bishops and 400,000 priests, who will distribute it to parishioners.
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your generalities are NOT a “source”.
What does YOUR Bible say in 1 Cor 11:23-27?
Oh, I see....now Paul is not Scriptural?
So you feel free to ignore Paul’s writings?
You are clearly an Theological wizard.....
How ignorant that comment is!
I just used Paul's comments to the Corinthians to show conclusively that there is no such thing as transubstantiation.
Now go play pagan altar boy.
From your post #300:
“Paul didn’t speak for Yeshua; he spoke for himself, as he constantly pointed out in his letters.”
“conclusivel”?
I don’t thing that means what you think it means.
Since you can’t comprehend, here it is again:
the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread,
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and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is MY BODY that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
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In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in MY BLOOD. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”l
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For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
I gave you one, isn't one enough? Or do you subscribe to the Stalinist outlook that one man's death is a tragedy, a million a statistic?
Really?
I don’t see anything in the last 30 posts that looks like a “source”.
You dispute that Hus was killed at the behest of the Catholic church? Or have you never heard of him?
Throwing out a one word name is NOT A SOURCE.
As compared to those martyred by your vaunted King James?
>http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=4293<
Under James I and Charles
1604: John Sugar p., with Robert Grissold l., 16 July, Warwick; Lawrence Bailey l., 16 Sept., Lancaster; 1605: Thomas Welborne l., with John Fulthering l., 1 Aug., York; William Brown l., 5 Sept., Ripon; 1606: Martyrs at the time of the Powder Plot : Nicholas Owen, S.J., day unknown, Tower; Edward Oldcorne, S.J., with Robert Ashley, S.J. , 7 April, Worcester. From this time to the end of the reign the martyrs might have saved their lives had they taken the condemned oath of allegiance. 1607: Robert Drury p., 26 Feb., Tyburn; 1608: Matthew Flathers p., 21 March, York; George Gervase, O.S.B., 11 April, Tyburn; Thomas Garnet, S.J., 23 June, Tyburn. 1610: Roger Cadwallador p., 27 Aug., Leominster; George Napper p., 9 No., Oxford; Thomas Somers p., 10 Dec., Tyburn; John Roberts, O.S.B. , 10 Dec., Tyburn; 1612: William Scot, O.S.B., with Richard Newport p., 30 May, Tyburn; John Almond p., 5 Dec., Tyburn; 1616: Thomas Atkinson p., 11 March, York; John Thouless p., with Roger Wrenno l., 18 March, Lancaster; Thomas Maxfield p., 1 July, Tyburn; Thomas Tunstall p., 13 July, Norwich; 1618: William Southerne p., 30 April, Newcastle-under-Lyne. 1628: Edmund Arrowsmith, S.J., with Richard Herst l., 20 and 21 Aug., Lancaster.
Not my king, but I do enjoy the english in the KJV. Beside the point that 'others' did it. By Catholicism's own claim, they are the OTC. They had killed many more before the first 'Protestant'arrived or dropped the hammer or the torch on a Catholic. Protestants could claim self-defense until Catholicism was defanged by the Reformation.
Noteworthy that you didn’t answer the questions posed.
You’ve made it clear that you have zero understanding of the word of God.
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Would you like for me to re-post the dozens of questions I posed which you have ignored?
Haven’t skipped dozens of questions to me. Try again.
The difference between your position and the one I’ve presented is that you own your position and claim it because you believe that is what has been revealed to you alone.
The position I have presented is that of the Catholic Church, which has preached, written, assembled, and preserved, the Word of God for the past 2000 years.
Those verses I’ve presented here, speak for themselves.
It is you who refuse to address the clear content.
>> “Those verses I’ve presented here, speak for themselves.” <<
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Yes, they do, and it is nowhere close to the garbage that you made up!
That is the constant problem with almost everything about the catholic cult. They reject scripture out of hand.
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Is Obama calling the Pope on a regular basis, since the Pope keeps promoting Zero policies?
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They’re twins separated at birth, and have a special telepathic link.
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