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Trips to Lourdes to Cut Time Spent in Purgatory
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 3:16am GMT 06/12/2007 | staff

Posted on 12/06/2007 5:26:23 AM PST by kellynla

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To: Gamecock; Alex Murphy

***The offer comes as the shrine prepares to commemorate the 150th anniversary of when the Madonna was said to have appeared to a peasant girl in 1858.***

I thought she was in her mid 40’s living in England.


21 posted on 12/06/2007 5:08:09 PM PST by irishtenor (History was written before God said "Let there be light.")
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To: marshmallow
You're right. The Telegraph isn't actually a tabloid. I was thinking more of The Sun: real low-brow stuff, complete with the Page 3 girls. Well, from what I've seen of Telegraph articles linked by Drudge recently, most of The Telegraph's stuff filtering over to this side of the pond still reeks of Robin Leach's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The Brits seem to have a penchant for becoming absorbed with anything vapid and ephemeral, with the trials and tribs of the idle rich, the (generally) minimally talented entertainment celebrities, the rest of the undeservedly famous, and other people and things the Really Don't Matter. When all of this is done under an umbrella of near-universal agnosticism, it is a recipe for disaster. Even when they try to report on something a little more uplifting, their long-term unfamiliarity with Christendom really shows through, as this article demonstrates. And that circumstance, unfortunately, tends to run all through their press, from The Times down to the most plebeian rag that wouldn't be fit to line a bird cage.
22 posted on 12/06/2007 7:16:34 PM PST by magisterium
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To: magisterium
Correct.

Then factor in television where religion is almost universally ridiculed. British programs, whether comedy or drama, are almost unanimous in their portrayal of clergy as hopelessly naive buffoons, sometimes well intentioned, but almost always dolts of the first order. The only favorable portrayals are reserved for those who have shed the yoke of traditional Christianity, such as The Vicar of Dibley.

23 posted on 12/06/2007 7:31:23 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: dangus

The writer understands as much about Catholic theology as I do about playing ice hockey.


24 posted on 12/06/2007 8:05:56 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: kellynla

The reporter gets this all worded wrong. Nutzos


25 posted on 12/06/2007 9:45:38 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: dangus

**the media reasserts its idiocy.**

You got it right!


26 posted on 12/06/2007 9:47:10 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: kellynla
Since there are two threads ongoing about indulgences -- here is another one.

[What Every Catholic Needs to Know about] Gaining Indulgences [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]

27 posted on 12/06/2007 9:49:10 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: ConservativeMind

Are indulgences something like “energy credits”? :)


28 posted on 12/06/2007 10:17:06 PM PST by bonfire
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To: irishtenor
I thought she was in her mid 40’s living in England.

I drove by her estate in England a couple of years ago. You really have to go out of your way to get there.

29 posted on 12/06/2007 11:01:34 PM PST by Gamecock (There was only one victorious life.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Amen. Purgatory is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible. The idea of purgatory is one of the traditions of men.


30 posted on 12/06/2007 11:57:21 PM PST by kevinw
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Trips to Lourdes to Cut Time Spent in Purgatory

One trip to the blood stained cross of Christ will eliminate time any where in eternity except with the Lord! If you don't make that trip...you'll spend eternity in a literal hell. (No tea and cookies...by the way!)

I hope nobody really believes this non-sense, do they? Sounds like something from the golden compass.

31 posted on 12/07/2007 4:37:53 AM PST by WileyPink ("...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6b)
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The souls in purgatory are completely, perfectly, and constantly assured of their own salvation.

What is your Scriptural basis for this statement? Statements based on ANY thing other than Scripture is based on man, not of God...Therefore if it's based on man, it's based on the flesh, therefore it's based on Satan!

32 posted on 12/07/2007 5:57:13 AM PST by WileyPink ("...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6b)
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To: WileyPink

bump for later read.


33 posted on 12/07/2007 6:03:56 AM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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