Posted on 01/01/2018 6:39:46 PM PST by ebb tide
Pope Francis has done more to divide Catholics than any pope in 150 years. He has clouded the Church’s teaching on marriage and sexuality. Francis has thrown out the clear, recent teaching of two of his immediate predecessors — which echoed Church practice and preaching for 2000 years. He has politicized the papacy, using its bully pulpit to further crudely crafted left-wing talking points on everything from the economy to immigration to climate science. He has marginalized and punished his critics, to the point that a new book calls him the “Dictator Pope.” Now he’s defending his handpicked lieutenant, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga. That Honduran leftist (and anti-Semite) is accused of massive corruption that benefited him personally, to the tune of $40,000 per month. Other favorites of Pope Francis include the disgraced Belgian Cardinal Wilfrid Daneels — who was caught on tape trying to silence a sex abuse victim — and LGBT advocate Fr. James Martin, SJ.
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Dude needs and exorcism.
The false prophet. The REAL Pope is still alive, by the way.
Baptist Amen. Used many of his teachings in Sunday School class. His desire was to move toward the Church in Acts, even to the point of bringing all things together in common and selling/using the churches wealth to feed the needy.
The result is that we can tell when someone is not being straight with us.
If Francis is trying to mess things up he will not succeed because we are not stupid.
We will not fall for any sort of spirit that is not of the Holy Spirit.
Frankie can’t be all bad. He even likes Martin Luther. How many Catholics can honestly say that?
Does papal infallibility still apply, or do Catholic’s pick and choose depending on the pope?
Like cheap shots do ya now? That is real Christian.
Sadly, I have to agree the the author.
It is very very rare that a Pope speaks ex cathedra, I.e. infallibly. He’s skirting it but knows there would be a huge revolt if he speaks heresy ex cathedra.
Nutjob pope is helping many Catholics get over that “Papal infallibility” nonsense. At least that is something.
The Catholic Church is the biggest provider of help to the poor. Selling precious relics so some idiot can hang it in his mansion is ludicrous. As the saying goes, the poor will always be among us. We do more for the local poor and homeless than any other religion in our area. I am not look8ng to debate you, but it is a fact. Cheers friend
Very few.
Francis reminds me of other Argentine leftists. Many were church members.
“His desire was to move toward the Church in Acts, even to the point of bringing all things together in common and selling/using the churches wealth to feed the needy.”
Acts was a spontaneous event. I have never seen ONE attempt at that become successful. The only thing it does is frustrate grace by prodding believers into a fruitless adventure. God is not doing miracles like He did then (delusional people aside). His miraculous gifts were in full operation, even among the unruly Corinthians (proving it had nothing to do with “works”).
I’ve never understood why believers want to recreate the Acts era. You want Acts, you get sudden deaths for lying and not properly discerning the Lord’s body, too! You get transition instead of the full stability found in Ephesians.
Doctrine for us is in Paul’s letters, not Acts (or the Gospels). The Catholic Church has never gotten this right, regardless of the Pope, because doing so would destroy it’s carefully built Labyrinth. Paul is anathema to every works religion on the planet...because JESUS sent him to be so!
I’ve never understood the kind of “Christianity” that sets Paul up in opposition to Jesus and Jesus’ teaching in the Gospels. Neither would Paul.
You need to look up the doctrine. Clearly you don’t understand it.
I think it may be you who needs to get over it, since you apparently have no clue what it means.
The modernist heresy refuses to define anything, going instead for ambiguity. An infallible statement has to be well-defined.
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