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Pope: every ideological interpretation of the Gospel is a falsification
Asia News ^ | 4/19/2013

Posted on 04/19/2013 5:07:08 AM PDT by markomalley

May God free the Church "from all ideological interpretations" and open her up "to the simple Gospel, to that pure Gospel that speaks of love, which brings love and it is so beautiful." Because "any ideological interpretation is a falsification of the Gospel." A call to pray for the Church and for the conversion of hearts concluded the Mass that Pope Francis celebrated, like every morning, in the chapel of the Casa Sancta Marta. The Pope's reflection, published by Vatican Radio, is centered on the biblical readings on the Conversion of St. Paul and the discourse of Jesus in the synagogue of Capernaum.

The words of Jesus, Francis says, "pass through our mind and go straight to the heart. Because Jesus seeks our conversion", but there are those who "only want to implement what they understand with their minds of the Gospel." "They are the great ideologues. The Word of Jesus goes to the heart because it is the Word of love, is beautiful word and brings love, makes us love. These block the road of love: the ideologues. And that of beauty". As the doctors of the law who "began to argue sharply among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'. It is all a problem of intellect! And when ideology enters the Church, when ideology enters into our understanding of the Gospel, confusion ensues".

They are the ones who walk alone "on the path of duty": it is the morality of those who claim to only realize what they understand of the Gospel with their minds. They are not "on the road to conversion, that conversion to which Jesus calls us." "And these, on the road of duty, place everything on the shoulders of the faithful. Ideologues falsify the gospel. Every ideological interpretation, from wherever it originates - from one side or the other - is a falsification of the Gospel. And these ideologues - as we have seen in the history of the Church - end up being, becoming, intellectuals without talent, ethicists without goodness. And they do not speak of beauty, because they understand nothing. "

"Instead, the path of love, the path of the Gospel - the Pope says - is simple: it is the path that the Saints understood." "The saints are those who lead the Church forward! The path of conversion, the path of humility, of love, of the heart, the path of beauty ... Today let us pray to the Lord for the Church: that the Lord may free Her from any ideological interpretation and open the heart of the Church, our Mother Church, to the simple Gospel, the pure Gospel that speaks of love, which brings love and is so beautiful! And beautifies us too, with the beauty of holiness. Today let us pray for the Church!. "


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To: markomalley

Let’s not forget interpreting scripture mentions of sobriety to mean that alcohol must be banned, or the oft-misquoted “unequally yolked” bit to oppose mixed race marriage.


21 posted on 04/19/2013 5:28:07 PM PDT by EricT. (Another Muslim terrorist. Who saw that coming?)
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To: markomalley
I was talking to my parish priest about gun control and he got really upset. He says that the Church recognizes the right to self-defense which means it recognizes the right to own the means to defend yourself. He thinks the Bishops never make clear what they mean when they support gun control which, according to him, means better checking for things like whether someone is unstable, not just whether they're a felon.

He days he's talked to three different Bishops about it over the years and they all said about the same thing, that the Second Amendment and the Church both recognize the right of people to own firearms of all sorts and no controls should infringe that right. If that really is the opinion most of them have, I sure wish they'd spell it out clearly and make the point that they recognize the right go own the means to defend yourself instead of looking like they'd go along with all sorts of restriction.

22 posted on 04/20/2013 8:43:04 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin

Um, that should be, “He says”, not “He days”. Jeez, arthritis sucks some days worse than others.


23 posted on 04/20/2013 8:44:22 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: kevkrom; EricT.

btw, in case it didn’t come out correctly, thank you very much for your kind words. This Pope is truly sent to us by God. I humbly ask that you pray for him and for us Catholics and indeed for all us Christians that we stay the path of Christ.


24 posted on 04/20/2013 10:52:54 AM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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To: Cronos

Will do. Thank you as well.

Sectarian/denominational/political strife weakens and divides the body of Christ. Let’s focus on our agreements and dismiss our differences.

God’s blessings on you and yours.


25 posted on 04/21/2013 10:36:31 AM PDT by EricT. (Another Muslim terrorist. Who saw that coming?)
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I have the same feelings; this is one good man. I do not like all the “living and breathing” interpretations of our Bible any more than our Constitution.


26 posted on 04/21/2013 10:38:22 AM PDT by gortklattu (God knows who is best, everybody else is making guesses - Tony Snow)
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