When God is angry with us, when he wants to punish us, he sends incompetent and lousey priests. This Pope is the 112th Pope of the Malachy Prophecies.
If you don't know what that means, I strongly suggest reading the entire article.
Woo-hoo! So Francis is of Italian descent ... like about 230 of the preceding 263 popes. That's certainly the clincher.
The alleged "Malachy prophecies" are phony anyway; a Renaissance-era forgery intended to influence a Papal election. (They failed, BTW.)
free market capitalism is the economic system that is compatible with God-given human nature, God-given natural rights, and the Biblical concept of justice.
If this is he caliber of the article, I strongly suggest NOT wasting your time with the whole thing.
My BS-meter broke a sprocket on that one.
His regnal name isn’t Peter, his birth name isn’t Peter, he was born in Buenos Aires, not Rome, and his parents came over from northern Italy, again, not Rome. Other than that he fits the name as well as…every other pope.
Amen. Alleluia!
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 24 November, the solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, and the conclusion of the Year of Faith, in the year 2013, the first of my Pontificate.
FRANCISCUS
Would you have posted this if you had read even a few sentences?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3096594/posts?page=64#64
GREAT!!!
So when is the Vatican going to start "redistributing" the roughly one-third of the world's wealth—gold, art and jewels that they have stored in their obscene coffers?
Fantastic idea, Pope-ster. You first...
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Utterly ridiculous...as this Pope does NOT advocate global wealth redistribution. He is very anti-Marxist and his attempt to influence some of his Jesuit brothers who disobediently promoted liberation theology in Argentina to repent... got him shipped out to an assignment in the hinterlands of Argentina when they angrily retaliated using their political connections. If you could read some of his homilies and other writings from his time in Argentina (most only available in Spanish), you would understand how utterly wrong you are. This Pope understands VERY well the horror of Marxist/Communist thinking and policies. He also understands that the poor in most countries are treated awfully. We don’t usually see the poor treated in such ways
here in the United States. Because of that, we might not really understand his strong words with regard to the poor.
Too many people are mixing spiritual principles with political policies these days...and grossly misinterpreting some of what Pope Francis has actually said.
Capitalism is the best economic system that mankind has known to date...but it is not perfect because the real cause of problems in the world is SIN. And sinners can and do misuse capitalism (and all other systems). Period.
Real historians of integrity look at history and see the positive and negative aspects of everything...unlike revisionists who attempt to corrupt what they do not like by emphasizing only the negative. Good historians also look at events with an understanding of the cultural mindset(context) of the time period in which events took place. Example of revisionist history: Some radical feminist influence on textbooks pushes the notion that women of the prairie (in the development of the United States) led lives similar to slaves in that they were consigned to work and bear children and that all that they did was drudgery. THAT is a take on history that is severely warped...as the women of that time thought NO such thing. They understood their roles as being essential to the very survival of the family and took great pride in that. They thought they enjoyed a marvelous freedom....contrary to the manufactured notions of the radical feminists who helped write some textbooks.
In the same way, the words of Pope Francis are frequently being misinterpreted by various people today...who have colored them with their own agenda and misunderstanding.
Remember, this man was no surprise to his fellow cardinals. They knew exactly what he stood for and what he would bring to the Vatican and the Catholic Church. The Modernists on the left are fully in control, and he is their leader.
But this is only the beginning. I hope I’m wrong, but I fear we are all witnessing the first movements of a full-blown schism that will dwarf the Great Schism of the 11th century, as the Roman Catholic Church breaks into three distinct factions––traditionalism; the far left (Pope Francis); and the far far left (Rev Charles Curran, Richard McBrien).
Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness
Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness
[21] ...For from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succsession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy (or kingdom of darkness) may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies (that is, to the old wives' fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits and the feats they play in the night). And if a man consider the original of this ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start out of the ruins of that heathen power.
[22] The language also which they use (both in the churches and in theirpublic acts) being Latin, which is not commonly used by any nationnow in the world, what is it but the ghost of the old Roman language?
[23] The fairies, in what nation soever they converse, have but one universal king, which some poets of ours call King Oberon; but the Scripture calls Beelzebub, prince of demons. The ecclesiastics likewise, in whose dominions soever they be found, acknowledge but one universal king, the Pope.
Part III. Of a Christian Commonwealth.
Chap. xxxviii. Of Eternal Life, Hell, Salvation, and Redemption.
[12] And first, for the tormentors, we have their nature and properties exactly and properly delivered by the names of the Enemy (or Satan), the Accuser (or Diabolus), the Destroyer (or Abaddon). Which significant names (Satan, Devil, Abaddon) set not forth to us any individual person, as proper names do, but only an office or quality, and are therefore appellatives, which ought not to have been left untranslated (as they are in the Latin and modern Bibles), because thereby they seem to be the proper names of demons, and men are the more easily seduced to believe the doctrine of devils, which at that time was the religion of the Gentiles, and contrary to that of Moses, and of Christ.
[13] And because by the Enemy, the Accuser, and Destroyer, is meant the enemy of them that shall be in the kingdom of God, therefore if the kingdom of God after the resurrection be upon the earth (as in the former Chapter I have shewn by Scripture it seems to be), the Enemy and his kingdom must be on earth also. For so also was it in the time before the Jews had deposed God. For God's kingdom was in Palestine, and the nations round about were the kingdoms of the Enemy; and consequently, by Satan is meant any earthly enemy of the Church.
Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness
Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness
Besides these sovereign powers, divine and human, of which I have hitherto discoursed, there is mention in Scripture of another power, namely, that of "the rulers of the darkness of this world," [Ephesians, 6. 12] "the kingdom of Satan," [Matthew, 12. 26] and "the principality of Beelzebub over demons," [Ibid., 9. 34] that is to say, over phantasms that appear in the air: for which cause Satan is also called "the prince of the power of the air";[Ephesians, 2. 2] and, because he ruleth in the darkness of this world, "the prince of this world":[John, 16. 11] and in consequence hereunto, they who are under his dominion, in opposition to the faithful, who are the "children of the light," are called the "children of darkness." For seeing Beelzebub is prince of phantasms, inhabitants of his dominion of air and darkness, the children of darkness, and these demons, phantasms, or spirits of illusion, signify allegorically the same thing. This considered, the kingdom of darkness, as it is set forth in these and other places of the Scripture, is nothing else but a confederacy of deceivers that, to obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour, by dark and erroneous doctrines, to extinguish in them the light, both of nature and of the gospel; and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of God to come.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.
