To: ebb tide
The most evident mark of Gods anger, and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world, is manifest when He permits His people to fall into the hands of a clergy who are more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds. They abandon the things of God to devote themselves to the things of the world and, in their saintly calling of holiness, they spend their time in profane and worldly pursuits. When God permits such things, it is a very positive proof that He is thoroughly angry with His people and is visiting His most dreadful wrath upon them.
Saint John Eudes
2 posted on
06/21/2015 9:40:26 AM PDT by
WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
(The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
A couple of Medici Popes were rapacious rulers but did not affect the Church because they were too busy aggrandizing themselves to worry about Faith and Morals and the Magisterium. This Pope is different. He is trying to mess with the Church and is concerned with material things way beyond what any Christian teacher should be.
13 posted on
06/21/2015 10:37:19 AM PDT by
arthurus
(It's true!)
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