Is that why Fr. Cesare Bonizzi recorded an album of heavy metal music?
Or Pat Boone?
Or why Billy Idol released an album of Christmas favorites?
Posted on 07/07/2014 7:38:30 PM PDT by marshmallow
Two prominent Fort Worth-based Christian ministers led a delegation of Evangelical Christian leaders to Rome to meet privately with Pope Francis.
James and Betty Robison, co-hosts of the Life Today television program, and Kenneth Copeland, co-host of Believer's Voice of Victory, met the Roman Pontiff at the Vatican on Tuesday. The meeting lasted almost three hours and included a private luncheon with Pope Francis.
Mr. Robison told the Fort Worth Star Telegram, "This meeting was a miracle.... This is something God has done. God wants his arms around the world. And he wants Christians to put his arms around the world by working together."
Mr. Robison said he was impressed by Pope Francis' humility and courtesy to the visiting delegation of Evangelical Protestant Christian leaders.
In a written statement, Mr. Robison said he believes "the prayers of earnest Christians helped lead to the choice of Pope Francis." He described Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentine Archbishop chosen as Pope, as "a humble man...filled with such love for the poor, downtrodden..."
In addition to Mrs. Betty Robison, the high-profile Protestant delegation included Kenneth Copeland, co-founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Newark, TX; Reverend Geoff Tunnicliff, CEO of the World Evangelical Alliance; Rev. Brian Stiller and Rev. Thomas Schirrmacher, also from the World Evangelical Alliance; and Rev. John Arnott and his wife, Carol, co-founders of Partners for Harvest ministries in Toronto, Canada. Gloria Copeland did not travel to Rome because of a previously scheduled commitment.
The ecumenical meeting in Rome was organized by Episcopal Bishop Tony Palmer. Rev. Palmer is an ordained bishop in the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches, a break-away alliance of charismatic Anglican-Episcopal churches. Bishop Palmer is also the Director of The Ark Community, an international interdenominational Convergent Church online community, and is a member of the Roman Catholic Ecumenical..........
(Excerpt) Read more at charismanews.com ...
Hmmm, I don’t think this is unusual at all.
John 13:34-35 New International Version (NIV)
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
The jury is still out for me on this one. I need a little more background information. Too close to end times. . .perhaps experiencing a little skepticism.
You just have to ask yourself, "why would Tony Bennett perform a duet with Lady Gaga?"
I’ve been a supporter of both Robison’s and Copeland’s ministries for years, but learning of this little get together really knocked my hat in the creek!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6OQXyvQ4jg
To be told that the stuff in Genesis didn’t really happen?
“Why?”
It sounds like it was mostly to be friendly and show goodwill.
In his heyday Billy Graham preached in some of the biggest Catholic cathedrals in the world. When he went to Russia he preached in huge Orthodox Cathedrals. Billy Graham also never put down Catholics, unlike the most majority of protestant pastors. He normally finished his sermons by telling everyone to go back home to their churches and be good Christians.
“You just have to ask yourself, “why would Tony Bennett perform a duet with Lady Gaga?””
Um, cause they’re both singers? Isn’t that why Sinatra had a duet with Bono? Isn’t that why Bing Crosby had a duet with David Bowie?
Wrong dead horse.
“Billy Graham also never put down Catholics, unlike the most majority of protestant pastors.”
Graham was at least mildly anti-Catholic until the 1970s (perhaps the late 1960s). http://books.google.com/books?id=pVAeaDLnCJoC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=billy+graham+anti-catholic&source=bl&ots=ODBfzEGwxR&sig=8P3_qvC92j6TjEYCKQJ3wKj0Yfw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x-y7U5OgFMqg8QGEtYGwBw&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=billy%20graham%20anti-catholic&f=false
“...It is no secret that the Holy Father has his supporters in radical organizations such as the Council for a Parliament of the World Religions. He is also regularly praised for his extensive experience in interreligious relations in Argentina.
And then there is this strangely underreported connection between Pope Francis and a global organization called the United Religions Initiative (URI)—which, according to their website, “envisions a world at peace, sustained by engaged and interconnected communities committed to respect for diversity, nonviolent resolution of conflict and social, political, economic and environmental justice.”
Pope Francis, while still Cardinal Bergoglio, was reportedly a friend and supporter of the San Francisco-based URI, which has regional offices in 83 countries and seems to have as its ultimate objective the establishment of what conspiracy theorists used to call the One World Religion, whereby Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Shintoists, Bahá’is, Sikhs, Hindus, Zoroastrians, New Agers, Wiccans, representatives of aboriginal religions, etc., would set aside all doctrinal differences or claims of religious supremacy in order to engender universal peaceful coexistence.
According to an article written by Lee Penn in the December 1998 issue of the New Oxford Review, The United Religions Initiative, A Bridge Back to Gnosticism, the URI hopes to enroll “60 million people in what it describes as ‘a Worldwide Movement to create the United Religions as a lived reality locally and regionally, all over the world.’”
In 2007, URI celebrated its 10th anniversary in the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And guess who was there. “Little did we know,” writes an enthusiastic Maria Eugenia Crespo of URI in Argentina that “one of our esteemed participants and friends, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, would be named Pope just five years later! Felicitations, Papa Francis!”...”
“[Cardinal Arinze] “said that a United Religions would give the appearance of syncretism and it would water down our need to evangelize. It would force authentic religions to be on equal footing with spurious religions.”
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=2924
Good that he came around. He called JP2 the greatest moral leader in the last 100 years. Many evangelicals despised him because of his friendship with the Catholic Church and his “catholic ways”.
LOL
The only reason I can see is money. Maybe the same thing applies in this case.
Is that why Fr. Cesare Bonizzi recorded an album of heavy metal music?
Or Pat Boone?
Or why Billy Idol released an album of Christmas favorites?
Robison is into this supplying fresh water around the world. I have even donated. But I’m a little wary of this “world-wide come together” . . .
Again, I repeat! Maybe it's for the money.
Billy Idol has a Christmas album? Who knew?
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