I’m just tired of every Catholic topic thread turning into the same old “Why do you pray to statues” and “Why do you worship Mary?” and “Why do you have to have an intercessor?”
How many times have these questions come up? Every single time there is a Catholic topic thread. I wouldn’t mind genuine non-Catholic curiosity, but it goes on and on and always the same questions.
Please. This information is all over the internet. Nobody needs to find it on a Padre Pio thread. As I said above, my daughter had an extensive correspondence with one of his biographers, a priest who knew him, and it would have been nice to have a great FReeper discussion about him, but noooooooo.
This is my say. I’ve said it. Good night all. I’ll go read something else.
What a great blessing for your daughter and for you! I visited San Giovanni Rotondo on a pilgrimage, and coincidentally, after the pilgrimage, met someone who had been healed by Padre Pio’s intervention.
When the RCC comes up with some coherent answers, perhaps the questions will stop.
Why do you fall down to the stock of a tree?
Why do you label Mary a "co-redeemer" and the "dispenser of all grace" (according to a recent Catholic thread.)
Why do you presume there are intercessors between God and men other than Christ Jesus alone, in contradiction to Scripture?
While we're at it, why do you blasphemously regard priests as "another Christ?"
We don't need websites to satisfy our "genuine non-Catholic curiosity." We are challenging your errors because Christ instructs all men to preach the Gospel in truth and light, and to "reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine."
"They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?" -- Isaiah 44:18-20"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" -- Isaiah 5:20