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Posted on 02/01/2017 6:49:28 PM PST by ebb tide
In another in a long stream of apparent attacks on his critics, Pope Francis gave a homily last week accusing Christians who avoid taking risks out of concern for the Ten Commandments as suffering from “cowardliness,” warning that such people become “paralyzed” and unable to “go forward.”
“‘Not taking risks, please, no... prudence...Obeying all the commandments, all of them...,'” the pope said, characterizing the thinking of such Christians. “Yes, it’s true, but this paralyzes you too, it makes you forget so many graces received, it takes away memory, it takes away hope, because it doesn’t allow you to go forward.”
Such people become “confined souls” who suffer from the sin of “cowardice,” the pope added. “And the presen[ce] of a Christian, of such a Christian, is like when one goes along the street and an unexpected rain comes, and the garment is not so good and the fabric shrinks...Confined souls...This is cowardliness: this is the sin against memory, courage, patience, and hope.”
The remarks were made during a homily delivered on January 27th during a mass he was celebrating in Casa Santa Marta, a hotel for pilgrims situated inside of Vatican City where he currently resides. A translation was provided by both Rome Reports and Vatican Radio (the Rome Reports translation is quoted above).
The translation published by Vatican Radio rendered the Italian word “pusillanimità” (similar to the English word “pusillanimity”) as “faintheartedness.” However, Italian-English dictionaries translate the word “pusillanime” and “pusillanimità” as “cowardly” and “cowardice.” The pope used the word twice during his homily.
The pope’s remarks appeared to be directed against those who criticize him for using Amoris Laetitia to permit those who are living in adulterous second “marriages” to receive Holy Communion at the discretion of their priest. The practice contradicts the Church’s Code of Canon Law, as well as its perennial tradition of prohibiting the sacraments to those who are living in public mortal sin.
In particular, Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, recently decried those clerics who wish to give Holy Communion to remarried Catholics living in adultery. He labeled them “Aaronic” priests who enable their flock to sin against the Ten Commandments, like the High Priest Aaron in the Book of Exodus, who built a golden calf to allow the Israelites to violate the first commandment.
In a thinly-veiled critique of Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia, delivered at the Lepanto Foundation in Rome, Schneider warned: “This first clerical sin is repeating itself today in the life of the Church.” He added, “Instead of the First Commandment, as it was in the time of Aaron, many clerics, even at the highest levels, substitute in our day, for the Sixth Commandment, the new idol of sexual relations between people who are not validly married, which is, in a certain sense, the Golden Calf venerated by the clerics of our day.”
The pope’s statements are the latest in a volley of barbs apparently aimed at critics of Amoris Laetitia in recent weeks.
In late December, addressing the issue of resistance to his attempted reforms, Francis decried “malicious resistance” that “takes refuge in traditions, appearances, formalities, in the familiar, or else in a desire to make everything personal, failing to distinguish between the act, the actor, and the action.” The last reference seems to be to those who object to his insinuation in Amoris Laetitia that those civilly remarried and living in an adulterous relationship are not guilty of a sin if they commit it with the intention of maintaining unity for the sake of children, or if they fear they might fall into another sin.
On January 20 Francis complained in a homily about “lazy Christians, Christians, who do not have the will to continue, Christians, who do not struggle for a change of things, for new things to come, those that if changed would be a good for everybody.” He made an apparent comparison of his critics to “the doctors of the law who persecuted Jesus,” observing that “these men did everything prescribed by the law. But their mindset was distanced from God. Theirs was an egotistical mindset, focused on themselves: their hearts constantly condemned [others].”
This Pope sucks.
I doubted the fake Pope was Catholic when he departed from Catholic teaching, now I’m wondering if he is even a Christian.
Yes, there is a season for that if you love God not man.
My take on it is if you are a born-again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ you shouldn’t want to go out of your way to break the 10 commandments. . .they are offered by God for a reason. Think about each one of them. . .which one do you want to forget about. We are ALL sinners saved by Grace, and praise the Lord I am grateful we can go directly to Him anytime in Jesus Name (no busy signals there) and ask for forgiveness.
I`m a Lutheran and I never heard of the Pope being referred to as the antichrist. Are you Lutheran or Catholic?
WTH?
From the prophet Isaiah.
7 9et the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 ¶For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Seems that someone did not know that the answer was given to the question, “Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?” in Romans 6.2.
This guy’s either a nut or is working for the other team.
The Reformers, and probably Luther, referred to the Pope (or Papacy) as AntiChrist.
Remember that 'anti' can mean 'instead of' (or a replacement) - it doesn't necessarily mean the fanged caricature that we get in today's movies.
I posted a pic of this clown washing muslims feet on the FB site. I’m not even religious and want to throw this guy out in the street! How can you Holy rollers tolerate this??
This Pope’s comments just keep getting worse and worse and worse. Quite right—this is not only heresy for a Catholic, it is heresy for a Christian.
But I wish the anti-Catholics in the forum wouldn’t turn this into an attack on Catholicism. We need all the faithful Christian we can get, Catholic or Protestant. It certainly doesn’t help when any Christian go astray like this, especially when they may damage thousands or millions of other Christians who foolishly believe what they say.
But I wish the anti-Catholics in the forum wouldn’t turn this into an attack on Catholicism.
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It’s not easy to do when we’re being called schismatics and demon-possessed by certain Catholics on the forum.
Spoken like the liberal he is.
“Be a Christian...but you don’t have to do anything Christians do. Heck, you don’t even have to believe in Christ. Just give money to our church.”
Gives new meaning to the old catchphrase, is the Pope Catholic?
Heretic, be silent...
His 10 Commandments haven’t been done away with ealgeone..
It’s one of the things described in Revelation 13 of what is happening in the end:
Revelation 13- people will be:
worshipping the beast (breaking the 1st Commandment)
worshipping the image (breaking the 2nd Commandment)
blaspheming His Name (breaking the 3rd Commandment)
receiving a mark on their hand and forehead..
Same place His Laws- Commandments were to be placed on His People Israel (Deuteronomy 6:8)
Jesus didn’t get rid of the 10 Commandments. In one parable, He actually confirms them..
But since the pope controls the way people tell time, it isn’t easily seen..
again prophetic..
After all, Bergoglio is traveling to Lund this year to celebrate the 500th yr anniversary of Luther's apostasy.
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