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Why Pope Francis Is Keeping His Hammer-and-Sickle Crucifix
National Review ^ | 07/14/2015 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 07/14/2015 5:15:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: miss marmelstein; onedoug; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; CynicalBear; ...

Also, why does the Catholic church allow men with that kind of sin in their lives to SERVE communion, but prohibits parishioners with that kind of sin in their lives from TAKING it?


141 posted on 07/14/2015 10:14:09 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: miss marmelstein

Bible spamming eh?

You don’t read Scripture?

Your loss.


142 posted on 07/14/2015 10:14:53 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: verga

The primaries is the only Dem voting I do. Actually I consider my self independent. Republicans are democrats in drag.


143 posted on 07/14/2015 10:16:10 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: metmom

Just because I don’t read your posts does not mean I don’t read the Bible. That’s pretty egotistical on your part, I think.


144 posted on 07/14/2015 10:16:38 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Worst Pope in history. Perhaps he could meet with ISIS to discuss their plans for World peace.


145 posted on 07/14/2015 10:17:45 AM PDT by anton
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

To remove a pope against his will they would have to kill him. Probably, it’s been done.


146 posted on 07/14/2015 10:22:24 AM PDT by tioga
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To: miss marmelstein; onedoug

The ability to confect the Eucharist is not dependent upon the relative sinless state of the priest. This concept goes all the way back to the third century when there was a controversey about the baptisms of heretics, and whether or not they (the baptisms done by heretics) are valid or such people needed to be rebaptised. It was decided that they don’t.

The same concept applies here. It isn’t the man, by his own power who confects the Eucharist rather it’s the power of God. The personal state of the priest in question is irrelevant. This is the way it needs to be understood really; after all if it took a certain level of holiness to confect the Eucharist then we would have a severe shortage indeed. Same with baptisms. It’s the power of God at work in the Sacraments not men.


147 posted on 07/14/2015 10:31:15 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: miss marmelstein

When I say something is wrong, I back it up. I don’t expect people to take it on my say so. THAT would be egotistical.

Since Catholics regularly excuse the abominable behavior of their clergy and excuse it regularly, it’s clear they don’t know what God has to say about it.


148 posted on 07/14/2015 10:35:51 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: FourtySeven

And yet blatant, unrepentant sin in the lives of those in authority in the church, disqualifies them from serving in that position.

That’s GOD’S decision, not ours.


149 posted on 07/14/2015 10:37:46 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

Why haven’t you admitted I was correct?


150 posted on 07/14/2015 10:41:15 AM PDT by verga (I might as well be playng chess with pigeons.)
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To: FourtySeven

Well, let’s look at the typical reaction on the part of Catholics to men like Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, and Ted Haggard.

They’re castigated and their ministries are discredited and sometimes, there’s jail involved.

Yet when a Catholic priest molests boys, he’s still allowed to perform mass, as long as his intent is pure. After all, he’s just human like the rest of us, nobody is perfect, and once a priest, always a priest.

The RCC hierarchy went out of its way to protect many or most of those molesters, shifting them from congregation to congregation.

Kind of a double standard, there, when Catholics excuse sin in their midst and damn others for it.


151 posted on 07/14/2015 10:45:16 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: anton
Perhaps he could meet with ISIS to discuss their plans for World peace.

You think we're not going to be hearing THAT soon?

152 posted on 07/14/2015 10:46:11 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: tioga

JP I


153 posted on 07/14/2015 10:46:27 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: miss marmelstein

Everyone needs to read the Bible. Don’t you and others on here read it. Y’all do not know what y’all are missing. I have never heard that posting Bible verses was spam. Wow, what a concept.


154 posted on 07/14/2015 10:48:22 AM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: metmom

And of course you have irrefutable proof of this.


155 posted on 07/14/2015 10:48:52 AM PDT by verga (I might as well be playng chess with pigeons.)
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To: verga

Ask your fellow Catholics who proposed it first.

It wasn’t my idea that that’s how he died.

I’ll rephrase it then.

JPI?


156 posted on 07/14/2015 10:54:00 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: MamaB
I have never heard that posting Bible verses was spam. Wow, what a concept.

I refer to it as "Scriptural Tourette's."

It's usually occurs when a Protestant is stuck on a particular theological point, so they default to the closest tangentially related verse they interpret to support their contention.

157 posted on 07/14/2015 10:57:32 AM PDT by papertyger (If the government doesn't obey the Constitution, what is treason?)
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To: metmom
Ask your fellow Catholics who proposed it first.

Link?

158 posted on 07/14/2015 11:02:51 AM PDT by verga (I might as well be playng chess with pigeons.)
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To: IrishBrigade
The bottom line is that Catholics put pro-abort Obama into office slight correction...females put Obama into office...females of all Christian denominations...I know it doesn’t advance your agenda, but who cares...

Women, Catholics, blacks, city dwellers, Democrats. A group somewhere has to hold the line and it isn't the Catholics.

159 posted on 07/14/2015 11:03:27 AM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Claud
No, we’re not doing this here. Start a new thread in the Religion forum, and I’ll tackle all that baloney there.

Communism is another plague being adopted by the Catholic Church. Seems like an appropriate place to discuss her endless plagues.

160 posted on 07/14/2015 11:06:06 AM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger
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