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[Unam Sanctam]

The Pope is not "promoting" voodoo. That is slander. Learning about something and even being polite to believers of other religions is not "promotion".

[Unam Sanctam]

The Pope calls for a new effort at bringing the truths of the Catholic faith to the world. This is the "New Evangelization". How horrible that the Pope actually believes in the Christian message and wants to bring it to all mankind! As for ecumenism and inculturation, once again the schismatic dissidents of the "Catholic" Family Magazine throw out the baby with the bathwater and refuse to make any distinction at all between authentic ecumenism and inculturation, which does not compromise the truths of the faith, and abuses of ecumenism and inculturation, which by all means should be criticized and opposed wherever they may be found.

[St.Chuck]

This has been one of your most fascinating posts yet.

Not only does the author explain the misdeeds of the conciliar popes, he explains how great Archbishop Lefebvre was. It is no wonder that JPII didn't like him. Not only does he suggest that JPII promotes the voodoo cult, but implies that it is part of a Masonic-Jewish master plan. Very informative.

After reading this, how could anyone want to be a Catholic? How could anyone, with any recognition of what is true and good believe that the Vatican is not run by Satan himself? The Protestants have been right all along. The Roman Church is the Whore of Babylon. The Vatican is the most evil institution on the face of the Earth. It is hell-bent on destroying the faith of anyone that had ever heard of Jesus.

Thank you so much for posting this and opening my eyes.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

How long did Voodoo survive in Haiti and Brazil and Mexico side by side with traditional Catholicism?

[LadyDoc]

as someone who lived in Africa, I say this guy is exaggerating...and putting too many burdens on a simple person's faith...

I am reminded of two discussions in novels...

In the book Hawaii, the Chinese immigrants embraced Christianity so they could marry Hawaiian women (since few Chinese women were available) when the bishop was asked if he thought they understood the creed etc. he replied he doubted many of his haole (white) parishoners understood the creed perfectly, so who was he to judge?

The second comes from the book Father Elijah.
A nun who was martyred is being beatified, and a rich white Italian lady says, yes, the faith in Africa is like their rivers: A mile wide and one inch deep... Some nuns who knew the martyr were nearby, and Father elijah apologizes to them.. and one replies: Yes, father, she is right...our faith is like our rivers. But in the rainy seasons, have you seen how strong our rivers run, and how deep and powerful they are?

Africans, like Americans, are often nominal christians...but many are very very holy and devout. Just because they dont' think and worship like 19th century Europeans doesn't mean they are not good Christians...they could teach us a lot of lessons. For example, no African dies alone, and most orphans are taken in by relatives...we have a million children in foster care...Africa, with millions of HIV orphans has most of them cared for by relatives...