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To: Steelfish

Christ told the woman to go and sin no more.

What part of that do you not comprehend?


122 posted on 10/18/2015 4:48:05 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

I think it appears that it is you who have no clue of the history of the Church’s annulments and how at one time it was used for the ruling elite. That it must now be streamlined and extended to ordinary Catholics invites your ire and the scandalous postings you make on Pope Francis even if some of us don’t agree with all his musings.

An early historical reference to Catholic annulment involves Pope Nicholas I (858-867), who refused to grant an annulment to King Lothair II of Lotharingia so that Lothair could marry his mistress Waldrada, but a Council pronounced in favour of the annulment, resulting in Nicholas disbanding the Council. Regardless of the outcome for Lothair, it seems that Church annulments were an established fact, at least for the ruling classes.

When Louis XII became king of France in 1498, he had his marriage with Joan annulled by Pope Alexander VI so that he could marry Anne of Brittany.

Fast forward five centuries later, and we have a Church in disrepair. The call to St. Francis was “Go repair my Church,” and its been picked up by the current Vicar of Christ in consultation with his Bishops in a duly called Synod. Picking up blog posts with titles like “I’m the Fricken Pope, So Shut the Hell Up,” is the stuff of enemies of the Church. Even the conservatives like Archbishops Chaput and Burke would be ashamed of this vile diatribe.


124 posted on 10/18/2015 4:58:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: ebb tide

“Christ told the woman to go and sin no more...What part of that do you not comprehend?”

The same part that you, I and everyone else didn’t:

GO AND SIN NO MORE.

Say you did and the Apostle of love says you are a LIAR:

“If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”—1 John 1:10


191 posted on 10/18/2015 8:33:50 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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