Posted on 05/17/2014 3:53:49 AM PDT by NYer
That’s commendable?
What was he doing before?.
That was from the Pope’s introduction of Cardinal Kasper to his recent Synod of bishops.
But I do agree with you that the Vatican’s website has now become liberal media.
The Catholic Church is the only true religion. All other religions, including Billy Graham’s, are false religions.
Before VC II, all Catholics knew this truth. I’m sorry you apparently believe otherwise.
The MSM is the liberal websites. Did the pope tell you he was scared of offending non-Catholics? Or is that your interpretation of what he said. Or are you a mind-reader?
It’s not an interpretation. It’s a fact.
Fr. Lombardi is to Pope Francis as Jay Carney is to Obama, a professional liar.
I can't remember the exact words but the pope said something very much like "knowing some of you are not believers I bless you in silence". It was weird whatever it was.
You got me wrong. The reason I stay in trouble on FR is because I say all the time that the only true religion is the Catholic Church. I just take up for Pope Francis more than you do. I’m a 4th degree Knight.
So you are calling Billy Graham and his protestant faith a false religion. Do your research before you post something. The rest of your post is also nonsense.
In the above, you stated all my comments are nonsense, including the one about false religions.
P.S. I know a fourth degree night who practices artificial birth control.
Your knowledge of Catholicism, or lack thereof, does not impress me.
More and more I’m convinced we are in a state of sedevacante.
This doesn’t make me popular here (in fact, I’m probably more hated than the prots here by my fellow Catholics), but I can’t consider that man the pope. No way, no how.
Most neo-Cats don't know the Faith. When Catholics actually read about the Faith as it was taught prior to Vatican II then they wake up and realize something is terribly wrong and has been wrong for decades now.
Yup. But how can a POPE be a heretic?
I wish I could join the neo/con-Catholics and let that statement just bounce off of me.
Will you lie for Pope Francis, as others do? Will you go that far?
Is he suggesting setting aside the rote memorized prayers in favor of talking to God like the Person He is?
Why do people assume that one cannot pray with memorized or written prayers and still pray sincerely and from the heart? There is a difference between praying like a parrot, and praying with sincerity and understanding something which you didn't spontaneously come up with. A person who studies, considers and seeks a deeper knowledge of God and his revelation through those prayers which come to us from the saints and Fathers of the Church, not to mention the scriptures themselves, will pray truly and efficaciously and not like a parrot, even though they do not make up the words themselves on the spot. After all, what Christian refuses to pray the Our Father or the Psalms because they are not spontaneous?
I do fully believe 100% of the time that the "Smoke of Satan" entered the Church and set "Bishop against Bishop" and that "It will become clearer in 1960" (various sources).
Do you take up for Pope Francis in all his off-the cuff statements? Or only some of them?
If only some, why? And if only “some”, why can’t I do the same?
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Matthew 23:15(NIV)
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
Oh, please! Don't ever make that terrible wish! :)
How many “churches” did Jesus Christ establish? If more then one, when did He establish each one, and for what reasons?
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