Posted on 04/27/2011 8:10:30 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
....In recent statements, Catholic League president Bill Donohue questioned why Vatican officials hadnt formally protested The Borgias....
....The Catholic Church is an evergreen for pop culture clashes. Theres something about Catholicism that seems to lend itself so well to film and television and capture the popular imagination with a kind of passion that, say, Presbyterianism or Lutheranism dont.
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OMG...the Catholic Church has sinners in it!
Once again infallible in matters of teaching faith and morals does not mean impeccable.
Donohue cracks me up.
The one thing you can say about Romanists, they are predictable.
It must be nice for you Protestants to be entirely sinless and spotless. I suppose you don’t really need Jesus’ salvation in that case...
What sort of faith and morals do you believe that the popes taught, through their behavior?
And not surprisingly, the propagation of a hit piece on the Church by the usual suspects on FR does not go unnoticed either.
It’s an entertaining show. And as Pope Alexander said, maybe even God can use flawed people to do Good on His world.
Of course, we’d never see a similar show about Islam during Ramadan.
Yeah, it's called "standards"; unwavering notions of right and wrong regardless of time and whatever sinners may occupy clerical offices. Relax those standards (as the Presbyterians and Lutherans have) and maybe pop culture will leave you alone.
Extortion, pure and simple.
Now Alex, didn’t anyone ever tell you not to get your history lessons from hollywood?
Oh you think we have a religion of follow their example? I’m amazed once again at the inability of the anti Catholics to grasp this very simple fact. The Truth of the Catholic faith is not made less because it has at times been protected by knaves of the worste order. The beauty of Truth is that it does not depend on the messenger. Remember that next time somebody assails against Christianity because a preacher or lay person or even yourself or myself fell and committed a sin.
The Truth of Catholic faith is not protected by fallen, sinful men. It is protected by the Holy Spirit as promised by Christ Himself.
Just as sinful men inspired by the Holy Spirit wrote the infallible Scripture so it is with the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Mind too that of course a Showtime series is the best source for in depth non prejudicial scholarship on matters of religion.
It does explain their ‘tude quite a bit.
Besides, however corrupted I bet the average monk or parishioner had more faith then than we do now in our decadent opulence and age of bloated self import.
I am shocked at what this sinful corrupt Pope wrote
” Hence, heartily commending in the Lord this your holy and praiseworthy purpose, and desirous that it be duly accomplished, and that the name of our Savior be carried into those regions, we exhort you very earnestly in the Lord and by your reception of holy baptism, whereby you are bound to our apostolic commands, and by the bowels of the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, enjoy strictly, that inasmuch as with eager zeal for the true faith you design to equip and despatch this expedition, you purpose also, as is your duty, to lead the peoples dwelling in those islands and countries to embrace the Christian religion; nor at any time let dangers or hardships deter you therefrom, with the stout hope and trust in your hearts that Almighty God will further your undertakings.”
Let us see if these geniuses can figure out how this Pope matters to American history or the history of Western Civilization as a whole.
Despite being a high-magnitude creep, he never attempted to solemnly teach heresy as truth. (Because he never attempted to solemnly teach anything, of course.)
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