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To: ultima ratio; Canticle_of_Deborah; AskStPhilomena
The lack of respect is not for traditionalist Catholics, it's for the Catholic faith traditionalists are holding onto.

Hear!!! Hear!!!

The 'we-all-pray-to-the-same-god' neo-socialists have convinced the hippie flower children who would be priests of the sixties and seventies that universal ecumenism - like the heathen structure for all faiths planned for Fatima with the blessing of a celebrity who would be pope - is God's plan. Of course, this would require redacting His Holy Word to the contrary.

Perhaps those bishops now suggesting the Bible is not a historical account, coupled with government's incremental denunciation of His Word as 'hate' speech is their means to that end.

What a triumph for international communism if they could succeed in dismantling the single greatest threat to their plan for domination of the world - the Roman Catholic Church. From where I sit their 'useful idiots' are in place to make it happen.

Contemplating this line of thought I am required to ponder how Karol Wojtyla avoided arrest by the communists at a time when those of his station in Poland were being imprisoned.

10 posted on 06/01/2004 3:20:46 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (God, family, country. All else is meaningless.)
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To: Robert Drobot
Contemplating this line of thought I am required to ponder how Karol Wojtyla avoided arrest by the communists at a time when those of his station in Poland were being imprisoned.

You know, I've wondered about this myself. I have always figured that it was due to the hand of God having protected him during those years.

Your post implies that there may have been some nefarious plot by the communists to enthrone John Paul as the Pope. Let's, for the sake of argument, say that this is true. God's ways are not our ways. It appears that God willed that this man be the Pope. He was duly elected by the College of Cardinals. No one has come forward seriously claiming to be the true pope. (Except for that poor, old, demented man in Montana.) And, after all, if it wasn't His will, God had the chance to be rid of him with the assination attempt quite a few years ago.

Do I agree with everything that the Pope says and does. No. Theologically, I'll leave that up to the Pope and the theologians to hash out. When I do question the Pope's theology, it is to understand what he is saying and not to look for imbedded heresy, as so many love to do. His prudential decisions and actions, yes, I question and have my own opinions. For instance, if I were Pope, I wouldn't kiss the Koran, or allow the ecumenical shindigs at Assisi. I would have quite a few Cardinals and Bishops looking for other employment. However, I'm not Pope, and until the time that God sees fit for me to be Pope, I will allow God to work His will through this Pope.

In the end, there are 2 things that we all can do. 1) Pray unceasingly for the Pope and the Church. 2) Trust in Jesus' promise to St. Peter that "the gates of Hell will not prevail."

14 posted on 06/01/2004 9:33:36 AM PDT by pipeorganman
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