Pope Francis, "If Mary is not your Mother, you are an orphan!"

Charisma News ^ | 9/5/2014 | Jennifer LeClaire

[Jan_Sobieski]

Pope Francis has been a breath of fresh air for many Catholics seeking greater liberty and a growing concern for conservative Christians who take issue with his comments about homosexuality and other cultural issues.

But the pontiff's latest statement is sparking an uproar from believers around the world. Pope Francis sent a tweet Tuesday that absolutely violates the truth of Scripture:

"The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan," Pope Francis tweeted.

As of the time I wrote this column it had been retweeted about 4,000 times and many of the responses were in appropriately unkind. It's not appropriate to attack the pope for his beliefs. It's more appropriate to share the truth...

[MamaB]

Nah, use soap and water. : )

[caww]

And if they think this is just other cultures...here's Catholic Church San Bernadino, in Milan Italy

Inside is the idol of catholic 'Queen of Heaven' as they call her, at the very center of hundreds of skulls and bones.

And here a wall of skulls and bones

2 Thessalonians 2:11-13.......

"For this reason"......... God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth ...but have delighted in wickedness."

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Neither competence or authority...

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Who needs “competence” or “authority” when you’ve rejected the Word and cling to “tradition?”

Coat it with gold and build a shrine around it.

[bonfire]

Thanks for the nightmares I’ll be having. For the REST OF MY LIFE!

[CynicalBear]

>>I mean the big tall hat he usually wears.<<

That tall hat that looks like the open mouth of a fish is the same type of hat the priest to the pagan fish god dagon wore.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

So Jim, please look at the rabid vitriol here. Is this what the Religion Forum is meant to be?

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Narses, really?

So you’ve finally learned that the Religion Forum is not intended for you to post your silly “yopios” cereal box picture intended as an insult to non Catholics?

All we’re doing is pointing actual practices of Catholics. Most of us are former Catholics. If you don’t like the echo we’ve returned to you than perhaps you shouldn’t have given the shout at us in the first place.

We can only “play nice” if we all follow the rules.

Now please leave Jim Robinson alone. He’s got bigger issues to deal with than cleaning up after your failed attempt at sandbox bullying.

[MamaB]

Seems some can not deal with the truth. The pictures are real. Doggone it. I keep forgetting to go to my house and see if I can find that album with pictures of all the bones. Would write a note but I would forget to read it.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Can you fill it with Nacos?

[JPX2011]

Who needs “competence” or “authority” when you’ve rejected the Word and cling to “tradition?”

See #1440.

[CynicalBear]

Pictures of Catholic “relics” is vitriol? You don’t like how they stack up to scripture? Why don’t you just show us where the apostles taught to decorate churches with dead people, bones and stuff?

[CynicalBear]

I doubt it but I always get a hankering to go fishing.

[caww]

The Skull Chapel in Sedlec in the suburb of Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic .....You have to be extremely twisted to be able to find more evil inspired "art" than in this chapel..... Everything inside this Church is made of skulls and bones.... From the lights to the very furniture.

Catholic monsterance in this Church in Prague

Chandeliers made of skulls and bones

[CynicalBear]

It gives you nightmares but can you imagine having to “venerate” that stuff?

[JPX2011]

Seems some can not deal with the truth.

There is no truth here. Merely obfuscation. The level of propaganda being demonstrated here is reminiscent of the Putinista crowd on the Ukraine threads.

The pictures are real.

Yes they are, and like propaganda they don't convey the whole story. Not suprising that protestant simpletons are taken in by them.

[Religion Moderator]

This is an "open" thread in the Religion Forum meaning posters may argue for or against deities, beliefs, religious authorities, etc. The debate can become contentious. Thick skin is required.

If you are not comfortable with that kind of debate, then ignore the "open" RF threads and instead read and post to "caucus" "ecumenical" "prayer" or "devotional" tagged RF threads.

[MamaB]

That is disgusting. How could anyone do that to a church?

[CynicalBear]

Is that really a Catholic Church?

[mlizzy]

Is this what the Religion Forum is meant to be?

When you treat the Mother of God with respect, you're more likely to treat everyone else similarly. If not, then you end up treating everyone else with disrespect too.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

It gives you nightmares but can you imagine having to “venerate” that stuff?

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Why won't the Catholics discuss any of this?

It's a good thing I never visited this place as a teen. Me and my friends were bored and mischievous. Enough said?

[MamaB]

The pictures say everything anyone needs to know. There is no worthy explantation to that junk. Why would anyone want that in a place of worship? I do not understand people who would defend it.