Posted on 06/01/2017 10:02:14 AM PDT by ebb tide
Fr Sosa also said that if there were women deacons, 'more doors' could open afterwards
Christians have formed the devil as a way of expressing evil, the Jesuit superior general has said.
In an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Fr Arturo Sosa said: Christians believe that we are made in the image and likeness of God, and God is free, but He always chooses to do good because He is all goodness.
We have formed symbolic figures such as the devil to express evil. Social conditioning can also represent this figure, since there are people who act [in an evil way] because they are in an environment where it is difficult to act to the contrary.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that the devil is a real being, specifically a fallen angel who rebelled against God:
The Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.
Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. This fall consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign.
Elsewhere in the interview, Fr Sosa also said Pope Francis has opened the door to womens ministry but establishing a commission to look into the diaconate.
The Church, he claimed, will one day have a different hierarchy, although he stopped short of explicitly endorsing female ordination.
When asked about the possibility of women being ordained to the priesthood, Fr Sosa said: There will come a time when their role is better recognised. The Church of the future will have a different hierarchy, with different ministers.
Thanks to feminine creativity, he said, there could be Christian communities with a different structure within 30 years.
The Pope has opened the door to the diaconate by creating a commission. Perhaps they could open more doors afterwards.
In the interview, which comes just over a week after revelations about Fr Sosas past support for Fidel Castro, the Jesuit leader also touched on the issue of same-sex marriage.
When asked about the Churchs attitude to gay relationships, Fr Sosa said it was necessary to distinguish between homosexuality as an act, and gay people.
Homosexuality is one thing, my homosexual friend, who forms part of my family, part of my surroundings, is quite another.
There are gay people in religious life and they are not persecuted, they form part of the community.
The sacrament [of marriage] is a different matter, he continued, saying it is one thing for civil law to ensure there is no discrimination, but theology is another matter.
Paragraphs are your friends.
I apologise to you. I know what you mean. I have cataracts and keep a magnifying glass at my chair. Sorry for the inconvenience. I was only trying to keep up with the Holy Spirit.
I symathize with your vision problems. Mine are similar.
Do you know how to put in paragaphs?
You use this < P> except you take out the space.
Yes, thank you, in fact I did that. Is it possible after something is posted to go back and out some breaks, spaces, it paragraphs to help.
Your definition of a true Catholic is as legalistic as the unending geneologies in the Old Testament.
In St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 8 & 9, St. Paul corrects those who believe that there physical geneology as a Jew is what makes them acceptable to God. St. Paul says that the true believers are not physical sons of Abraham but spiritual children of Abraham. Please see Romans 9:7 & 8.
We as Catholics are spiritual children of Abraham, in other words, children of the Promise, and the Promise is Christ. Any Catholic with a Baptismal Certificate can register in any parish on the Earth. It would then be assumed that they are subjects of the Roman Pontiff. They may be atheists, Freemasons, whoremongers, active homosexuals, communists, or sede vacantis (Which I am not). None of your criteria will guarantee a good Catholic. In Romans 9:27, St. Paul, quoting Isaiah, in verses 27~29, says as much. A remnant is a small piece of the original.
The much maligned Pope St. John Paul II imitated and understood Abraham in how he sought after the hearts of non Catholics and Catholics alike trying as Jesus did to adopt them as His Spiritual Children. (The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church teaches us that our Baptism is in reality Jesus adopting us as part of His family.)
My heart, as I believe Pope St. John Paul II's heart was, is with the teachings of The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church pre-Fatima, and I, like Abraham, in Hebrews 11, am not looking for and earthly city (Rome) but rather..."a city that has foundations; whose Builder and Maker is God." (Verse 10) As In Hebrews 11:16, Like Abraham..."I desire a better, that is to say, a Heavenly Country."
Therefore, having God not be ashamed to be called my God for He has prepared for me a city. Jesus never taught legalism but rather what is in each person's heart in saying that what's in a man's heart will soon come out of his mouth. My heart is with Christ and I am joined, through the Scriptures, and my Baptism, as part of His True Spiritual Church.
I could never consider Pope St. John Paul II as I do if my heart were otherwise as I believe him to be the father Abraham of our times. I also believe that he will return to us along with St. John, the Apostle (see Apocalypse 10:8~11) as one of the two Witnesses in Apocalypse 11. I believe he's in the same place as is St. John the Apostle, having been translated and being still in touch with their bodies. I believe that it is through him that the channel of Grace still flows between God and His Church.
Therefore, he is the Pope of the Remnant Church and therefore my Pope. I may not pass your muster/qualifications, but then my concern is truly to pass God's muster/qualifications as I have been taught them as a traditional Catholic.
I might not have made the paragraph breaks where you would have had them, but I did as well as I could "by guess and by gosh."
Cordially,
Mrs Don-o
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