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Pope Francis calls for civil union laws for same-sex couples, in major departure from Vatican doctrine
NBC News via MSN ^ | 10/21/2020 | Henry Austin

Posted on 10/21/2020 10:58:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Francis is a heretic.

This is established by his actions.

The seat is vacant.


41 posted on 10/21/2020 1:13:51 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: Brookhaven

Legalizing LGBT civil unions invariably leads to legalizing LGBT marriages.


42 posted on 10/21/2020 1:15:25 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Francis is for abortion.


43 posted on 10/21/2020 1:16:44 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: mass55th

Long live The Real Pope.


44 posted on 10/21/2020 1:17:12 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: Arcadian Empire

Does the Pope believe in God?


45 posted on 10/21/2020 1:20:11 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Twitter and Facebook are RIGGING the 2020 election. STOP BIG TECH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!)
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To: JerseyDvl

The Real Pope, Benedict, believes in and is faithful to God.


46 posted on 10/21/2020 1:30:03 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: mware

He is still Pope.


47 posted on 10/21/2020 1:31:09 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: Celtic Conservative

“Abomination,” that what the Holy Bible says.

That was not an earthquake you felt, it was the spinning of the previous Popes, in their graves. Jesuits? Com’on man!


48 posted on 10/21/2020 6:03:28 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya? Nunc Bibendum)
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To: carriage_hill

He is a little long in the tooth, but he’s in play.


49 posted on 10/21/2020 6:19:19 PM PDT by Oil Object Insp
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To: Pilgrim's Progress; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; mitch5501; ...
Was this said ex cathedra, and if so, are you all still going to remain Catholics seeing as that would become the official position of the RCC, doctrine straight from God.

No, this was said "Ex portas inferni" = "from the gates of hell." However, so-called "infallible" statements are not the only magisterial level of teaching which popes have taught require assent. For popes have also taught that,

'the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," "to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals by the Holy Church of God through its Supreme Pastor the Roman Pontiff," "of submitting with docility to their judgment," with "no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed... not only in person, but with letters and other public documents ;" and 'not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority, " for "obedience must not limit itself to matters which touch the faith: its sphere is much more vast: it extends to all matters which the episcopal power embraces," and not set up "some kind of opposition between one Pontiff and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide them," "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent." (Sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3578348/posts?page=14#14)

And as for "infallible" statements, this is an unscriptural presumption which is based upon Rome infallibly declaring herself conditionally infallible. Rome has presumed to infallibly declare she is and will be perpetually infallible whenever she speaks in accordance with her infallibly defined (scope and subject-based) formula, which renders her declaration that she is infallible, to be infallible, as well as all else she accordingly declares.

Which is only one of the many distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).


50 posted on 10/22/2020 5:12:17 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: SeekAndFind
Pope Francis calls for civil union laws for same-sex couples, in major departure from Vatican doctrine SCRIPTURE!
51 posted on 10/22/2020 5:41:36 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: butlerweave
 

A BIBLICAL Message about homosexuality



 
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and
their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men
from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them
."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.


Leviticus niv

18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

 
 


Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Doonesbury Cartoon for Feb/08/2013

Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them;

they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it.

Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

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2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight.

They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.


Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.


Romans 1     New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
 
 18 The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; 21 for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 While claiming to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.
 

24 Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27 and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. 29 They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. 


2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done.
Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.



But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.


If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 


The Health Risks of gay sex.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We are living in a Genesis 19:9 world...
 

"Get out of our way,” they replied.
“This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge!
We’ll treat you worse than them.”
They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
 
 
 

52 posted on 10/22/2020 5:42:27 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: butlerweave
Catholics Rise up and Impeach this guy or what ever they do to Evil Popes

History shows that they do nothing.

Our FR Catholics are merely waiting for him to die.



Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

53 posted on 10/22/2020 5:47:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

RE: Honestly I don’t get it. They say that it is only official when he is sitting on the throne. Makes no sense. He is the Pope!

They differentiate between OFFICIAL infallible pronouncement on matters of church doctrine (ex-cathedra) and personal pronouncements, which are meant to be pastoral guidelines.

The former is supposed to be protected by the Holy Spirit from error and therefore, infallible. The latter is fallible and could possibly be erroneous.


54 posted on 10/22/2020 5:59:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Do you honestly believe that the Pope would say one thing personally and another thing from the “chair”? To do so would be ludicrous. In the 60’s droves left the church over the matter of what language should be spoken during mass . . . this is a tide bit more serious. Did any of you believe that one day you would hear the leader of your church make such a statement that sodomites are regular people, like you all?


55 posted on 10/22/2020 6:13:00 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: SeekAndFind; daniel1212

“Ex cathedra” is slimeness fiction.

It is a convenient straw man to virtue signal for infallibility,

and then it gets thrown under the bus when it’s obvious it doesn’t work.

Please supply ONE example of valid “ex cathedra”.

>>>

Fishtank - ex-Catholic


56 posted on 10/22/2020 10:53:57 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

RE: Please supply ONE example of valid “ex cathedra”.

Two off the top of my head:

1) The Assumption of Mary

2) When the Pope pronounced the doctrine of ex-cathedra with the agreement of the Vatican Council.


57 posted on 10/22/2020 11:12:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: mass55th
Pope Benedict the XVI is my Pope.

And mine also.

Bergoglio is a false prophet. Do not listen to him.

58 posted on 10/22/2020 2:05:33 PM PDT by mc5cents
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To: SeekAndFind

The first is false, the second is irrelevant.


59 posted on 10/22/2020 6:32:31 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

RE: The first is false, the second is irrelevant.

I agree with you on both.

But the second one is self-referential. It sounds like, I proclaim that I am infallible, therefore I am.


60 posted on 10/22/2020 6:40:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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