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“Christianity in America Is Just a Money Making Scheme”: Pope Slams American Catholics for Turning Faith into a Cash Cow and Ideological Circus
MSN ^ | 11/23/2023 | Story by Amy Lewis •

Posted on 11/25/2023 1:32:10 PM PST by Lazamataz

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To: moonhawk

What a clueless question. Really.

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Says the one who didn’t know if Judas Iscariot was a protestant or a catholic.


61 posted on 11/25/2023 2:53:07 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: jacknhoo
As the Catholic Church takes in billions and billions of dollars for refugee resettlement
Precisely. Catholic Charities and its commie subsidiaries are the money grovelers. Like all leftists, this pope accuses conservatives of what he and his do themselves.
62 posted on 11/25/2023 2:54:47 PM PST by nicollo ("This is FR!")
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To: Responsibility2nd
There really was a Council of Nicea.

Of course there was a Council of Nicaea. Tell me, the bishops who went to the Council, what were they before the council, if not Catholics?

Now you may not believe it really was the true beginning of the Catholic Church, but hey

Yes, that's what I asking you to prove.

You people believe in Popes like Frankie.

"Believe" in him? I believe in his office, if that's what you mean. His existence is just a fact. I think he's a really bad Pope.

63 posted on 11/25/2023 2:57:25 PM PST by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Lazamataz

Throw him out into the street. His mansion could house many homeless. See how “christian” he is without servants.


64 posted on 11/25/2023 2:58:06 PM PST by Singermom
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To: PROCON

That must be right, because this old Communist never has a kind word about the Lord or His Church. He’s all giddy about anything demonic, though.


65 posted on 11/25/2023 2:59:39 PM PST by AmericanMermaid
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To: Lazamataz

“Ideological circus”? That’s rich coming from a guy who constantly advocates for Marxist political causes like climate change and open borders.


66 posted on 11/25/2023 3:01:40 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Lazamataz

Francis is marxist making religion scheme


67 posted on 11/25/2023 3:04:25 PM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: Campion
Of course there was a Council of Nicaea. Tell me, the bishops who went to the Council, what were they before the council, if not Catholics?

Apostate Christians.

 

Yes, that's what I asking you to prove.

No, you're asking me to disprove your false theory. Rational arguments don't work that way.

 

 I think he's a really bad Pope.

I don't have time to link to all the Catholic teachings that will tell you that you're a bad Catholic for beliving that. But you know you are.

68 posted on 11/25/2023 3:05:13 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: metmom
Everything Catholics need the *church* to do for them requires or asks for a *donation*.

No, you're supposed to support your parish, but there's no "pay for play" for individual sacraments. It's traditional to offer a little honorarium for weddings and baptisms, but that's the practice in Protestant churches also.

69 posted on 11/25/2023 3:10:37 PM PST by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Chode

Where’s Henry the II when you need him???

When I first watched the movie ‘Becket’ which was many years ago, I thought of Becket as the hero... I Watched it again a few weeks ago and realized that it was Henry II who was the hero. Becket was defending the church’s stance that only the church could pass judgement on their priest for transgressions made by Priest.

That sort of thinking is why the Catholic church is going broke from lawsuit after lawsuit related to Priest pedophilia.

That’s nonsense... The law applies to everybody, including priest.


70 posted on 11/25/2023 3:11:31 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Lazamataz
"If he is not the Anti-Pope, then none will ever exist."

Nah, he's just an idiot. Ratzinger misread the room on Bergoglio.

"We want this Jesuit neomarxist."

"Ok, but I'm the Pope."

"No, we want the liberation theology cutout."

"Ok, but I'm the Pope."

"We want you to resign."

"I feel fine, you handicap the Church going forward by asking a Pope in good health to resign because you don't appreciate my fundamental Catholicism."

"We will tie you to every scandal and call you a Nazi, but what you don't seem to understand, is that we will smear your extended family in Bavaria."

"You understand conscription was mandatory and I did not attend a single meeting? Do you understand my family gave up their Traunstein home - happily - to establish an American forces forward-post HQ?"

"Nobody will care, our friends in the #MSM and the usual acolytes of 500-year-old heretics will supply all the innuendo."

"I will tell you this, then. You Jesuits will reap the whirlwind, you will finally grasp this mitre, but the maelstrom of your insipidity and your disobedience will strip your candidate bare of his spirit, then his flesh. The final standing wall of Mother Church was our devotion to free will, no matter how errant, but your premature coronation of this cockspur priest, his limbs will bend and he will break, and there will not be enough lira in the world to put him or your Order back together. But you will never destroy the Church Incarnate."


71 posted on 11/25/2023 3:16:03 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Apostate Christians.

They called themselves "Catholics". I can prove that if you like.

No, you're asking me to disprove your false theory.

YOU made the claim that the Catholic Church started in 325 AD. YOU have the burden of proof.

BTW, "disproving a false theory" is what argumentation is SUPPOSED to do.

I don't have time to link to all the Catholic teachings that will tell you that you're a bad Catholic for beliving that. But you know you are.

72 posted on 11/25/2023 3:22:47 PM PST by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Lazamataz




73 posted on 11/25/2023 3:24:58 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Campion

Sorry, last part got lost. I’m a “bad Catholic” like Cdl Burke, BP Schneider, and Abp Vigano. Trust me, you don’t know the Catholic faith better than I do, and you certainly don’t know it better than they do.


74 posted on 11/25/2023 3:25:03 PM PST by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: jerod

100%


75 posted on 11/25/2023 3:29:15 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Lazamataz

It is a fact. ALL of them have given profit a priority over principle.


76 posted on 11/25/2023 3:29:36 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: metmom

And responses like yours just make people want to run back to the warm, loving arms of the Roman church....

Or not.....

Here, this might help.......
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I’ve read that book twice but it didn’t have much of an influence on me. No, it’s just that I’m always perplexed by Catholics who get upset about some issue or other and elect to run off and join some weird sect instead doing a definitive study of the documented history of the Universal Church. Indeed almost all non-Catholic Christians except the Orthodox are simply ignorant of roughly a thousand years of the history of Christianity between the end of the apostolic age and the proliferation of the protestant sects beginning in the 16th century.


77 posted on 11/25/2023 3:29:48 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Lazamataz

He’s evil. I don’t think he’s just an anti-pope….I think he may be the “Big Anti” himself. He is completely undermining the foundations of the Church and laughing as he throws the faithful to the winds.


78 posted on 11/25/2023 3:31:19 PM PST by livius
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To: Lazamataz

I prefer a minister who doesn’t have to put on a costume before speaking to his congregation!


79 posted on 11/25/2023 3:32:04 PM PST by Hardshell
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To: Lazamataz

This pope I neither a Christian nor a Catholic. He’s a commie imposter. Catholics should reject him.


80 posted on 11/25/2023 3:40:44 PM PST by meyer (Psalm 83)
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