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Pope Francis Urges Bishops to Deny Communion to Pro-Abortion Catholics
Breitbart's Big Peace ^ | May 4, 2013 | Dr. Susan Berry

Posted on 05/04/2013 8:26:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: ansel12

It’s simple. They either play the game or they lose their tax status. And considering the government has stripped the church of it’s power/other roles in America, from their work in hospitals to adoption, the only thing left is cold hard cash.

As it stands, DEMONSTRABLY, The church has been religated to a mouthpiece of the political left. Either through pushing immigration/gun control, or it’s silence on abortion and homosexuality. Sure they say it’s wrong. But are they holding their people accountable? Nope. And that plays perfectly into the politics of it all.

And for those reading the thread, yes I am being hard on the church. Before anyone calls me the antichrist, ask yourselves if what I posted is backed up by what they see around them daily or not.


61 posted on 05/05/2013 8:05:28 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Francis facilitated communion for Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi at his first Vatican mass. He could easily have stopped it but he didn’t.

A week or so, later Biden received the sacranment from Archbishop Timothy Dolan and the two of them yucked it up afterwords.

Now the Pope has decided to crack-down in Argentina. Why just Argentina? Is that some kind of hotbed for miscreant Catholics?

So far this Pope is a phoney on this whole issue.

Fine job there Francis.

NOT!


62 posted on 05/05/2013 8:18:57 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Holy Father is “trying this one out” in Argentina. He'll work out the bugs and bring it here in time for 2014. It will be up the Bishops here to stand up for Church doctrine on life or continue to be enablers for the liberal psychopaths.
63 posted on 05/05/2013 8:59:46 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Jim Noble

what kind of follow up do you suggest? Don’t you know that all these sinners know they are doing wrong and it eats at them and that is enough?

It is the clarification of right and wrong that convicts them that is important


64 posted on 05/05/2013 11:49:40 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

God bless the Pope.


65 posted on 05/05/2013 11:51:40 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Norm Lenhart

Playing a game does not explain the connection between Catholics and the democrat party.


66 posted on 05/05/2013 12:55:51 PM PDT by ansel12 (Sodom and Gomorrah, flush with libertarians and liberals, short on social conservatives.)
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To: ansel12

If the Catholics do not play along, The parishes get audited. If they continue to oppose Big Brother, they get their tax status changed and parishes close.


67 posted on 05/05/2013 12:59:17 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Nonsense, Christians of non-catholic denominations are die hard opposition to the democrat party and they survive.


68 posted on 05/05/2013 1:09:12 PM PDT by ansel12 (Sodom and Gomorrah, flush with libertarians and liberals, short on social conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
if Catholics do not proclaim Jesus with their lives, then the Church becomes “not the mother, but the babysitter.”

Very good.

69 posted on 05/05/2013 2:25:38 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: jmaroneps37; 2ndDivisionVet
The Holy Father is “trying this one out” in Argentina. He'll work out the bugs and bring it here in time for 2014.

Ah, he's "beta testing" it!

70 posted on 05/05/2013 7:39:45 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: ansel12

Incorrect. The vast majority of those in the ECUSA, ELCA, northern baptists, unitarians etc. voted Dem, so they are not die-hard opposition. Even among those calling themselves evangelicals 11 million voted for the dems.


71 posted on 05/05/2013 10:57:48 PM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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To: Cronos

No, I was correct, unlike the Catholics who are a democrat voting denomination, Protestants as a whole have only gone democrat 3 times, and the last time for that was 49 years ago, Evangelicals for instance voted 80% republican while the Catholics were voting for Obama again.

Catholics don’t support democratic politics because of fear of retribution.


72 posted on 05/06/2013 12:33:39 AM PDT by ansel12 (Sodom and Gomorrah, flush with libertarians and liberals, short on social conservatives.)
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To: ansel12

No, you are wrong. The Protestants you are not including are the ECUSA, ELCA and the northern baptists and the like


73 posted on 05/06/2013 4:16:04 AM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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To: Cronos

OK, Catholics do support the democrat agenda because they fear crack downs, since the majority of Protestants vote against the democrats and always have, the majority of them do not, I don’t know what a northern baptist is, or how they vote, but if you want to say that them and some other denominations are also afraid of democrat retaliation and so they support Obama and the democrat party like the Catholics do, great, I don’t care.


74 posted on 05/06/2013 8:45:06 AM PDT by ansel12 (Sodom and Gomorrah, flush with libertarians and liberals, short on social conservatives.)
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To: ansel12

you are wrong. the majority of those like the ECUSA etc. voted Obama and always vote democrat. Check the Baptist groups in New york for your edification


75 posted on 05/06/2013 10:25:07 PM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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To: Cronos

Well, I’m not wrong about the majority of Catholics voting democrat, I’m not wrong about the majority of protestants voting republican, and I don’t think that I’m wrong when I point out that the Catholics don’t vote pro-abortion liberal because they fear a crackdown from the democrat party. Lord knows the Evangelicals and Protestants don’t.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the Episcopalians vote like the Catholics, I think they are the next thing to being Catholic, in fact when one of them wants to change churches they switch to Catholic or become a Catholic Priest or something, but I would like to see the source for the national ECUSA vote numbers that you claim to know.


76 posted on 05/06/2013 11:38:32 PM PDT by ansel12 (Sodom and Gomorrah, flush with libertarians and liberals, short on social conservatives.)
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To: Salvation; All

“Pope Francis, please send a similar note to all the Bishops of the United States.”

Yes!

And you might not have heard yet that Pope Francis sent a strong pro-life message by joining 40,000 pro-lifers in the March for Life in Italy.

I hope CINOs, who are pro-”choice: are inspried by this!


77 posted on 05/12/2013 8:08:15 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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