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To: ndkos
The Pope's intentions were perfectly clear...


17 posted on 03/06/2005 3:47:31 PM PST by Land of the Irish (Tradidi quod et accepi)
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To: Land of the Irish

That's Jesus kissing the scourge there. There couldn't have been a more prophetic moment in recent history of Christianity facing Islam. Wake up and smell the coffee...

Open your eyes man and see prophecy.


23 posted on 03/06/2005 4:43:57 PM PST by WriteOn
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To: Land of the Irish
He kisses it thereby symbolically accepting its doctrine that rejects the Holy Trinity and the divinity of Jesus.

Do these fit together?

Holy Scripture offers us three striking illustrations. Isaac, when in the Land of Gerar, gave out that Rebecca was his sister, but when Abimelech saw their familiarity, he at once concluded that she was his wife. A malicious mind would rather have supposed that there was some unlawful connection between them, but Abimelech took the most charitable view of the case that was possible. And so ought we always to judge our neighbour as charitably as may be; and if his actions are many-sided, we should accept the best. [. . .] And so when we cannot find any excuse for sin, let us at least claim what compassion we may for it, and impute it to the least damaging motives we can find, as ignorance or infirmity. (St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, cap. 28)

PS: Do you seriously believe that JP II accepts as true "doctrine that rejects the Holy Trinity and the divinity of Jesus"?

25 posted on 03/06/2005 4:46:27 PM PST by gbcdoj ("That renowned simplicity of blind obedience" - St. Ignatius)
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