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To: Syncro

Have members of Swiss Guard shown up at your house and demanded you attend Mass? Have roving gangs of Knights of Columbus come to your house of worship and installed kneelers and brought statues? Has your monarch ripped the roofs off monasteries and looted your churches (oh, wait, that was Henry VIII).

So, how in the world can the Pope force you to do anything?

As Vicar of Christ, the Pope is responsible to preach the Gospel message. However, there have always been heretics and schismatics. Christ calls all people to Himself. He built the Church on Peter (You are Peter and upon this rock...). We are called to unified in Christ. Therefore, unity is what we should achieve. Unity under the Vicar of Christ.

However, nobody is going to make you. Its totally up to you.


50 posted on 10/30/2014 1:13:49 PM PDT by SpirituTuo
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To: SpirituTuo

Unity in Christ is what we should aim for

The Pope is as fallible as anyone and we aren’t suppose to follow humans


52 posted on 10/30/2014 1:33:07 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SpirituTuo
Read your unnecessary hyperbole, kind of a waste of keystrokes.

So, how in the world can the Pope force you to do anything?

Why ask that, I never said he could?

As Vicar of Christ, the Pope is responsible to preach the Gospel message.

Then he should stick to that.

Instead of declaring that Islamic Muslims have the same god as Catholics (not true at all) and declaring evolution and Big Bang theory are right and praising homosexuals.

He built the Church on Peter (You are Peter and upon this rock...).

No He didn't, His church is built on the Rock, the Rock that is Jesus.

That's been shown over and over again here on the RF.

Christ calls all people to Himself.

True, very good statement!

We are called to unified in Christ. Therefore, unity is what we should achieve. Unity under the Vicar of Christ.

You were doing so well until that last sentence, but I made it true.

68 posted on 10/30/2014 4:36:19 PM PDT by Syncro (Benghazi-LIES/CoverupIRS-LIES/CoverupDOJ-NO Justice--Etc Marxist Treason IMPEACH!)
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