Posted on 06/16/2015 11:59:24 AM PDT by QT3.14
Pope Francis blames wealthy nations for the plight of the poor in his anticipated encyclical on Global Warming junk science.
Red Francis also says Global warming is real and wealthy countries must do more to save the planet. The National Journal reported:
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Indeed, something is.
Thank you so much, sneakers.
I guess this a real Papal Bull....
Isn’t this pimp coming to the US this September?
Thanks for the encouragement, sarge.
I don’t want to go off on diatribes against the Pope, but it is as though he is saying we should all aspire to be
POOR. What the heck is that all about?
I know right.
Message for the Pope: sell the Vatican and give the proceeds to persecuted Christians.
No kidding. This WILL the be the narrative by papists.
Same answer for anyone who advocates for “helping the poor”.
If you’re not trying to tout or proclaim your own righteousness by declaring how much you care,
give of yourself and your own wealth first,
lead by example.
The Founder of the Jesuit Order, St Ignatius Loyola, was a big promoter of “who am I to judge” and that’s why I was concerned upon learning of Francis’ background.
Hey, “pope,”
Kiss my ass, you filthy communist POS. How dare you target my country like some kind of international overlord? How about you do your papal duties and tend to the flock of that church you lead, and quit f***ing with the rest of us!!
The off-the-charts radical leftists will swoon anew over this latest “mistranslation.”
You are known by the friends you keep.
Fortunately Protestants preachers never lie, engage in sexual deviancy, greed and elitism, right?
Jesus chose Judas to be an Apostle, and Jesus warned us of wolves in sheep's clothing. So we shouldn't expect impeccability from the clergy.
But we should expect Christ's Church to lead us into "all truth" since, as the Bible says, the church is "the pillar and foundation of truth."
We also owe obedience to the discipline of the Church, since Christ gave the Apostles the authority to "bind and loose," an Old Testament term meaning ultimate ecclesiastical authority.
This is why Jesus warns us that, "if he won't listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or tax collector."
Try just believing what God the Holy Spirit has said in Holy Scripture.
Just?
While many Protestants teach this, they will not find this teaching anywhere in the Bible.
Moreover, Scripture Itself teaches us that ignorant and unstable people twist the Scriptures "to their own destruction."
Christians should trust in "the pillar and foundation of truth," as they have since Apostolic times.
Pope Clement I"Owing to the sudden and repeated calamities and misfortunes which have befallen us, we must acknowledge that we have been somewhat tardy in turning our attention to the matters in dispute among you, beloved; and especially that abominable and unholy sedition, alien and foreign to the elect of God, which a few rash and self-willed persons have inflamed to such madness that your venerable and illustrious name, worthy to be loved by all men, has been greatly defamed. . . . Accept our counsel and you will have nothing to regret. . . . If anyone disobey the things which have been said by him [God] through us [i.e., that you must reinstate your leaders], let them know that they will involve themselves in transgression and in no small danger. . . . You will afford us joy and gladness if being obedient to the things which we have written through the Holy Spirit, you will root out the wicked passion of jealousy" (Letter to the Corinthians 1, 58–59, 63 [A.D. 80]).
Ignatius of Antioch
"Ignatius . . . to the church also which holds the presidency, in the location of the country of the Romans, worthy of God, worthy of honor, worthy of blessing, worthy of praise, worthy of success, worthy of sanctification, and, because you hold the presidency in love, named after Christ and named after the Father" (Letter to the Romans 1:1 [A.D. 110]).
"You [the church at Rome] have envied no one, but others you have taught. I desire only that what you have enjoined in your instructions may remain in force" (ibid., 3:1).
Irenaeus
"But since it would be too long to enumerate in such a volume as this the succession of all the churches, we shall confound all those who, in whatever manner, whether through self-satisfaction or vainglory, or through blindness and wicked opinion, assemble other than where it is proper, by pointing out here the successions of the bishops of the greatest and most ancient church known to all, founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul, that church which has the tradition and the faith which comes down to us after having been announced to men by the apostles. With that church, because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree, that is, all the faithful in the whole world, and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition" (Against Heresies 3:3:2 [A.D. 189]).
Your forgetting something there, Tom. RC’s believe their Pope is the head of Christianity, the rest of us Christians who are not RC’s must be in servitude to him. Which got a lot of Protestant dissenters, who said Christ alone is the head of the universal church, burned at the stake.
As a RC you are supposed to be subservient to this Marxist Pope, like him or not. I think you’ll find it a bit more difficult, however, to get FReeper Christians to bow the knee to this Marxist. FReepers have this deep seated thing against Commies.
This Commie IS NOT MY HEAD!
Is there any way to sort of “impeach” a pope?
Nobody knows. They make it their business that nobody knows.
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