Posted on 05/13/2015 6:02:06 PM PDT by Enlightened1
ROME — The Vatican said Wednesday that it had concluded a treaty to recognize Palestinian statehood, a symbolic but significant step welcomed by Palestinians but upsetting to the Israeli government.
Formal recognition of a Palestinian state by the Vatican, which has deep religious interests in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories that include Christian holy sites, lends a powerful signal of moral authority and legitimacy to the efforts by the Palestinian Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, to achieve statehood despite the long paralyzed Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Israel has grown increasingly alarmed about the increased international acceptance of Palestine as a state since the United Nations upgraded the Palestinian delegation’s status in 2012 to that of a nonmember observer state. A number of European countries have also signaled their acceptance of Palestinian statehood.
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Wrong. Pietro Parlin, the popes secretary of state is laying in wait. Pietro Parlin born in Italy and would take over (even temporarily) if the pope is assassinated or passes away.
The current pope has one lung, in poor health and has predicted his own shortened pope-hood.
I dunno, just throwing this out there.
St. Malachy, an Irish saint, died in the Middle Ages. Created a list of popes describing each by a couplet in Latin. The list expires with the current pope:
In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit Petrus Romanus qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus quibus transactis civitas septicollis diruetur, et Iudex tremedus iudicabit populum suum.
Finis.
Never heard that one before.
The Vatican is making a Treaty?
Doesn’t that mean some kind of cooperation with an enemy?
Just read James 4:4 — ... friendship with the world means enmity against God.
So I guess I just don’t get it.
The other day I was standing in a check out line at my favorite grocery store and this lady and I started talking, she went to the same Catholic school I did, different years, anyway I mentioned I was not happy about this Pope and she said:
“Oh I just love him, he is so great a lot better than the other Pope”
So I said:
“I guess you think Obama is a good president to?”
and she said:
“Oh yes, look at all the good stuff he has done for this Country”
I just looked at her, I thought: “you stupid, stupid person”
I can’t believe this, what is wrong with people, don’t they read their bibles, or listen to the news other than Obama network??????
Not yet but we’re moving there at an accelerated rate. The birth pangs come quickly once they start.
The Scriptures say many will be deceived by lies.
Only the Holy Scripture Word of God can get through via the Holy Spirit.
And then, only then, if the person has ears to hear.
Many do not.
It seems that the Pope is just about as loony as that socialist occupying the white hut. There must be something in the water as more and more entities are no longer playing with a full deck. Will be interesting to see how things will play out in the Middle East.
This is certainly more proof that the Catholic religion is not and never was the one, true church that Jesus founded...
We need to confront this zeitgeist and strangle it before it destroys civilization.
I really don’t think Benedict wanted to retire. Something really fishy went on there.
>>Never heard that one before.<<
Well that’s why we’re Freepers....keep each other in the know. lol
Check it out...quite interesting.
>>In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit Petrus Romanus qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus quibus transactis civitas septicollis diruetur, et Iudex tremedus iudicabit populum suum.
Finis.<<
Why...how latin of you. lol
Know what it means?
The Vatican/Pope/what have you also is always speaking how Europe should let in those boats of Africans and Muslims. IOW the Vatican perversely works for the de-Christianization of Europe.
Lots of these holy men of any stripe have their heads way up in the clouds and are delusional and uncaring about the impact on the average man.
>>Know what it means?<<
No, but I have a feeling you’re gonna tell me. lol
I reakon I could use a man’s best friend and google it, but long day at work.
Share?
Something about Peter the Roman...extreme persecution...tribulation.
Part of a prophecy?
In extreme persecution, there will preside over the Holy Roman Church, Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep through many tribulations and the city of the seven hills will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge his people. The End.
At any rate, that is how I figure it from my High School Latin.
You are kind when you say their heads are in the clouds. Actually they are somewhere a lot lower. Encouraging immigration of Muslims into any non-Muslim nation unless they are clearly reformist Muslims is insanity. Not just the current Pope, but the higher level clergy and officials of many mainline Protestant churches are guilty of this defective thinking.
“His election was as tragic as that of the maniac in the White House.”
And your statement makes me wonder if the same power brokers who somehow got a rabble-rousing nobody from Kenya into the White House also engineered the previous Pope’s resignation and election of Francis.
Food for thought anyway.
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