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Hugo Chavez died 'in the bosom of the Church': Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Catholic news agency ^ | Mar 6, 2013 | Catholic news agency

Posted on 03/08/2013 9:01:51 PM PST by daniel1212

Caracas, Venezuela, Mar 6, 2013 / 12:01 pm (CNA).- A source in Venezuela has revealed to CNA that President Hugo Chavez died “in bosom of the Church” and received spiritual direction and the sacraments in his last days.

In announcing Chavez’s death to the nation on March 5, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said the Venezuelan leader died “clinging to Christ.” The source in Venezuela told CNA that during the last weeks of his life, Chavez requested spiritual direction and asked to receive the sacraments.

Ever since he assumed power in 1999, Chavez butted heads continuously with the Catholic Church over statements by the bishops warning of the risks and excesses of his Socialist agenda. In 2002, Chavez accused the Venezuelan bishops of being a “tumor” for his revolutionary goals and demanded that the Vatican not intervene in the internal affairs of the country.

In recent years, Chavez occasionally took part in the religious services of distinct denominations, but he surprised the press in April 2012 when he showed up at a Catholic church in his hometown of Barinas to attend Holy Week services. He wore a rosary around his neck and prayed for strength to fight his illness. Last July, Chavez made public his request to meet with the Catholic bishops.

After Chavez’s death, the Archdiocese of Caracas, led by Cardinal Jorge Urosa who is currently in Rome for the conclave, sent its condolences

The secretary general of the Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela, Bishop Jesus Gonzalez de Zarate, called for national unity. “At this time let us all put forth our best sentiments,” he said during an interview on Venezuelan television. “Death is not the end of our life,” he added. “Death only opens the way to a life of complete happiness, at the side of God our Father.”


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To: daniel1212

If Chavez truly had faith in Christ in his heart when he died, then IMHO he was saved. But I SERIOUSLY doubt it.


41 posted on 03/08/2013 11:53:30 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.b)
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To: daniel1212

> “clinging to Christ.”

And the two billion dollars he stole.


42 posted on 03/09/2013 1:01:31 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism is slavery)
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To: daniel1212

Is it me, or does Nicholas Madura look like a pinatta?


43 posted on 03/09/2013 1:38:58 AM PST by healy61
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To: svcw

I believe in deathbed confessions and forgiveness as well. However, we can’t overlook the fact that it is the Holy Spirit who draws men (mankind) to Christ, and unless He convicts us of our sins - then I’m not sure that just saying you’re sorry to God on your deathbed will suffice.


44 posted on 03/09/2013 2:04:12 AM PST by Catsrus
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To: Rabin

Who is satin?


45 posted on 03/09/2013 2:05:06 AM PST by Catsrus
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To: livius

Everything in Caracas years ago was all about BOLIVAR.....BOLIVAR this....BOLIVAR that.....I wonder if Chavez has replaced “all things Bolivar”?


46 posted on 03/09/2013 2:20:04 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION........the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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To: right way right

LOL. thanks for the early morning chuckle. :)


47 posted on 03/09/2013 2:42:57 AM PST by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: BlackElk

and also there was that charmer Il Duce, who received a Catholic funeral and burial


48 posted on 03/09/2013 3:39:15 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: livius; Anitius Severinus Boethius
You are both right*, of course, but there will be lots of folks who will dispute the Bibles teaching on this.

Hugo may smell a bit like smoke:

1 Corinthians 3:10-15

10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it.
But each one should build with care. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.

14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.
15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.

Jude 17:23
17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. 18 They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” 19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

22 Be merciful to those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.


* Parable of the Vineyard.

49 posted on 03/09/2013 3:49:22 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: svcw
i beleive in death bed confessions and forgiveness, and it is a good thing I have no say in God’s Mercy.

Yes, Cutie.

For many of us would fall into the Sons of Thunder camp...

50 posted on 03/09/2013 3:50:59 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rome2000
These communist assholes don’t own any neckties?

You've got to 'appear' as One of the People when seen in public....






51 posted on 03/09/2013 4:01:44 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: daniel1212

I’ll bet you a fine curelom steak dinner that Harry Reid will die in the busom of his church as well.


52 posted on 03/09/2013 4:03:49 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
A compulsion to continually attempt to tweak and annoy a particular group of people, with substance-less, uninformed arguments, for want of anything better to do with one's life.

Not if you follow the Rules...



53 posted on 03/09/2013 4:05:43 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: presently no screen name
...had a major falling out with the Church a few years back.

That's dangerous!

For the Spirit of Apostacy will be knocking at one's door!

54 posted on 03/09/2013 4:07:18 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: presently no screen name
Not when it comes to salvation.

You mean like THIS???


 

John 6:28-29

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”


1 John 3:21-24

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.


55 posted on 03/09/2013 4:09:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: daniel1212
As often said, while Trad. RCs understandably see them as excommunicated, Rome counts and treats them as members in life and in death.

HMMmm...

There is a religious group, based in Salt Lake City, that will excommunicate IT's members for FOLLOWING scripture!

Weird; huh?

56 posted on 03/09/2013 4:12:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: BlackElk
He did not have a lot of time between pulling the trigger and death and he would have been distracted by the pain.

For a few microseconds...

57 posted on 03/09/2013 4:14:19 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GeronL
He isn’t going to heaven

And you KNOW this how?

58 posted on 03/09/2013 4:14:57 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: daniel1212
Looks like Cardinal Urosa has been a true pastor. Despite being publcly insulted and humiliated by Chavez, he turned the other cheek and provided ministry to him in his last days.

Anyone who criticizes the Church on this one has never read the Bible and is not a Christian.

59 posted on 03/09/2013 4:23:00 AM PST by wideawake
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To: daniel1212

If Heaven is filled with the likes of Hugo Chavez then I’d rather go to Hell.


60 posted on 03/09/2013 4:24:12 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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