https://freerepublic.com/tag/gioacchino/ en-us Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:41:35 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216164/posts The Vatican has dismissed as a heretic a mystical medieval monk apparently cited by Barack Obama as a moral authority and visionary. According to Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the Pontifical Household, the US President referred in campaign speeches to Gioacchino da Fiore, or Joachim of Fiore, as a ''master of contemporary civilisation'' who had sought to create a better world. Drawing on the Book of Revelation, Gioacchino envisaged a "new age of the Holy Spirit" in which the Church hierarchy would cease to exist and Christians would unite with infidels in an "Order of the Just". --snip-- He said... Times Online UK https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216164/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:41:35 GMT