Another faithless catholic writing a hit piece of the demise of Christ’s Church that worse popes and communist dictators couldn’t but dent....and he will only foment fear but not much dent her either. Waste of electrons.
The rot set in a long time ago, but the appearance of sanctity persisted. Now the illusion is disappearing, and a relatively good man (Ratzinger) is forced to watch while a duplicitous one (Francis) leads the operation of final destruction of the institution. Elements of holiness can continue, of course, wherever good people are gathered together, but as a general proposition, this Pontiff will be the death of the Roman church. Those good elements may have to reconstitute under a new charter. And yes, it’s the globalist rainbow agenda that is the source of this final act of desolation. The fact that it is being done subtly and indirectly just makes it harder to spot and harder to overcome.
if all behaviors are acceptable and must be tolerated...
then why do we have to repent for our sins?
couldn’t we just be more ‘enlightened’ and accept the sins as the ‘new normal’?
Most interesting, since this Pope is prophesied to be the last Pope.
Since everything I have heard is mostly hear say the only thing I can get from it is that many Catholic leaders believe the Church is infallible and many believe it is not.
The ones who believe it is fallible are trying to change it and the ones who believe it is infallible do not want it changed.
Since the Church is made up of people the only thing that could be infallible is the building because it has nothing to say about anything.
If the Church ( the members ) can not agree, it is fallible just like any other Church
What a horrible misreading the synod on the family and the Pope.
This is a lot of virtual ink spilled over a preliminary report from a preliminary synod, which report was angrily rejected by the bishops whose opinions it purported to represent.
1) Those passages are out of context; there was also a plain denunciation of the evil of homosexual behavior.
2) The synod firmly rejected those passages, with speakers opposing them 40-1, precisely because they were confusing.
3) Even the updated replacements for those passages were defeated.
4) Synods can be heretical; only ecumenical synods are infallible (and even then, the pope must assert that nature.)
“If The Pope Endorses Polygamy, That Spells The End of Catholic Claims”
Actually, no. The pope, at least Pope Alexander III (if I recall correctly), allowed polygamy for one generation - the first generation among pagan converts in the mid-12th century Baltic. That was the only way to keep society from ripping itself apart there.
What this author fails to consider is that we may have an anti-pope.
If Rachel Maddow had male plumbing, John, she’d be Matthew Broderick.