Posted on 05/06/2014 2:53:42 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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When did my fellow traditionalists lose their ability to reason?
Care to elaborate?
And people wonder why millions upon millions do not follow the RCC. Trust only in Christ as your Savior. There is but one way to the Father and that is through Jesus Christ. Not man.
It's ADVISE, not ADVICE.
“Care to elaborate?”
No, I’ll just let your posting history make my case for me.
“There is but one way to the Father and that is through Jesus Christ. Not man.”
I trust in Christ. And He sent the Church.
“His concentration on the poor, the poor, almost always the poor, and how we should all lower our living standards, is scary, to say the least.”
You must find Jesus and the Holy Spirit terrifying. http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=poor&version=NIV&searchtype=all&spanbegin=47&spanend=73
He is the Foundation of His church. His saved people.
It takes him some time to elaborate on an insult.
Let me take a stab at it.
When a Catholic can not decipher even the language and semantics being used, and when the teaching “fruit”, after more than a year of telegraph, television, tell-a-woman is not even discernable, then for that Catholic, it is quite REASON-able to experience confusion.
You, BN, have increasing company in your bewilderment. I wear that deer-in-Head-lights expression 90% of the time now, when our Pope and his eight elect speak.
There’s a REASON we are bewildered. The timing is eerie. We are feeling like we don’t recognize our own country right now, under this administration, but no one on FR questions our REASON for that.
Now comes a new Pope who is handicapped by limited English and every word is mis-translated to the point of confusion in the Church? I just don’t think so.
I wasn’t aware that being middle-class was something to be ashamed of.
This guy is an idiot.
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Maybe pronouncements should be in the form of rhyming riddles, so as to be so enigmatic that they can clarify what was said a half a dozen times.
“It takes him some time to elaborate on an insult.”
I made no insult in that post and I’ve never needed to elaborate on an insult.
“He is the Foundation of His church.”
Yes, but He still sent it. That means to ignore it is to ignore what He sent.
He didn’t say being middle-class was something to be ashamed of. He meant the church shouldn’t become a middle-class church; i.e. one that only caters to the minivan driving suburbanite (in American parlance.) He meant the church should be one for all people.
What Pope HASN’T been handicapped by limited English?
The Honduran archbishop, who chairs the Council of Cardinals (C8) that advises the Pope, said Francis “feels called to construct” a Church that is, among other things: “At the service of this world by being faithful to Christ and his Gospel; free from all mundane spirituality; free from the risk of being concerned about itself, of becoming middle-class, of closing in on self, of being a clerical Church; able to offer itself as an open space in which all can meet and recognise each other because there is space for dialogue, diversity and welcome in it.”
Peace love dove, peace bells, incense, light shows, crash pads, and Hare Krishna!
Wait, I thought Francis was sooooooo humble.
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