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Pope Francis At It Again (Comrade Frank)
National Catholic Reporter ^ | Jun. 17, 2014 | Michael Sean Winters

Posted on 06/17/2014 9:05:04 AM PDT by Gamecock

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To: Uncle Miltie

It’s often not even availability of food. It’s corruption of the governments who control the food supply to control the people.

The church ought to work on dealing with the moral issues that breed corruption and the rest of the problems would largely solve themselves.


61 posted on 06/17/2014 2:57:42 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Gamecock; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; count-your-change; CynicalBear; ...

I find it amusing that all the comments by the Catholics on this thread are defending the pope and church and accusing everyone else of taking his comments *out of context*.

But I have yet to see them provide his comments IN context and explain what he said and how it doesn’t mean what he said, but what they want it to mean.

There is nothing that the Catholic church can do, no matter how evil or depraved, that some Catholics will not defend with, *out of context*, *everyone else is doing it too so we’re not so bad*, or *we’re all sinners, nobody is perfect*.


62 posted on 06/17/2014 3:01:44 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: NKP_Vet; piusv; ebb tide; BlatherNaut
Please tell us all about his theological liberalism?

[To pv, et, and bn]: Fellas?

Why you’re at tell us all about the changes in doctrine on abortion, homosexuality, and women ordaination. Did he change Catholic doctrine while I was sleeping?

What good does an "unchanged doctrine" do if it isn't enforced? Or even if "debate" is allowed on it? What happened to the old Catholic Church that would have just told people "No" from the beginning and that would have been the end of it? Oh, that's right . . . Vatican II and its philosophical enablers happened!

The Catholic Church has changed radically. The fact that the Syllabus of Errors is still "theoretically" in force and still locked up in some musty old archive doesn't change the fact that post-VII papal and conciliar statements have said the exact opposite and are the basis of life in the Church today.

An unchanging church would be just that--unchanged. The post-VII church is so different from its predecessor that it isn't even recognizable as the same religion. Instead the patristic consensus on the Hexameron has been relegated to the dustbin of history and written off as "just their pre-scientific opinion" (while those same fathers' pre-scientific opinions on the virgin birth and the real presence are still held to as authoritative) and "St." Henry Cardinal Newman's "development of doctrine" thesis (which horrified his contemporaries but is adhered to as "gospel" by today's "conservative" Catholics) is invoked to justify this (dare I say it?) "evolution" in the Catholic worldview as an organic continuation of the ancient and even pre-Constantinian church.

Go to the library and find a big book called a "dictionary." Then look up the word "unchanging" in it. Maybe then you will understand.

63 posted on 06/17/2014 3:07:30 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Scraping the bottom of the 1916 barrel are we?

Had to reach real deep and way back to ladle out your anti-catholic screed if the day.

As Majoram Dei Gloriam


64 posted on 06/17/2014 3:21:23 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam = FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD)
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To: Salvation

Amazing.

No replies.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3168846/posts?page=26#26


65 posted on 06/17/2014 5:57:52 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: xzins
It is starkly rational to appeal to fallen humanity, because it is reality. Humanity is fallen.

Truly said, dear brother in Christ!

Capitalism does indeed work due to the fallen nature of man.

66 posted on 06/17/2014 7:08:14 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: betty boop
That is, essentially man is "just" a biological entity; thus he does not have a "fixed" nature, but an "evolving" one, like any other other animal, from amoeba and bacteria on up "the food chain"....

Truly, Darwin's theory relies on mindlessness - no first cause, no final cause - serendipitous if the species survives. But in the absence of final cause, how that could be deemed 'progressive' boggles the mind. It's just happenstance.

Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!

67 posted on 06/17/2014 7:14:23 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Zionist Conspirator
What good does an "unchanged doctrine" do if it isn't enforced?

"Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves: should not the hocks be fed by the shepherds?"

"Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord."

"St." Henry Cardinal Newman's "development of doctrine" thesis (which horrified his contemporaries but is adhered to as "gospel" by today's "conservative" Catholics) is invoked to justify this (dare I say it?) "evolution" in the Catholic worldview as an organic continuation of the ancient and even pre-Constantinian church.

Incorrect. The writings of St. Vincent of Lerins (died c. 445) led to John Henry Newman's conversion. St. Vincent's writings align with the teachings of the Church Fathers regarding the Deposit of Faith and Morals. The Vincentian Canon: "Care must especially be had that that be held which was believed everywhere [ubique], always [semper], and by all [ab omnibus]." By this triple norm of diffusion, endurance, and universality, a Christian can distinguish religious truth from error.

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"But some one will say perhaps, 'Shall there, then, be no progress in Christ's Church?' Certainly; all possible progress. For what being is there, so envious of men, so full of hatred to God, who would seek to forbid it? Yet on condition that it be real progress, not alteration of the faith. For progress requires that the subject be enlarged in itself, alternation, that it be transformed into something else. The intelligence, then, the knowledge, the wisdom, as well of individuals as of all, as well of one man as of the whole Church, ought, in the course of ages and centuries, to increase and make much and vigorous progress; but yet only in its own kind; that is to say, in the same doctrine, in the same sense, and in the same meaning." ~ St. Vincent of Lerins

68 posted on 06/17/2014 7:43:21 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: betty boop

Talk about the grotesque reduction of actual Reality being performed in these mental maneuvers!!


Had to happen to lay ground work for the purgeing of the masses and liquidation of undesireables and processing the useless eaters..

By Darwinists, faux-Darwinists, and psuedo-Darwinists..
which became socialists and ultimately progressives..

De-flowering and defameing and degrading humanity into farm animals..
Inspiring Stalin, Hitler, Mao and a panoply of other demogogues...

“Mental Maneuvers”, indeed... devaluing the best and brightest to the least and worthless..

Pretty smart actually.. more like Morlocks and Eloy..
The next socialist you meet is indeed a MORLOCK..
Not LIKE a Morlock; but the really of what the fictional meme speaks of..

Would actually make a good novel.. as good as Atlas Shrugged..


69 posted on 06/17/2014 7:48:53 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: LurkingSince'98
Scraping the bottom of the 1916 barrel are we?

?

70 posted on 06/17/2014 8:49:14 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Salvation

I already awarded post of the day, but this is a close, and well-deserved, second.


71 posted on 06/17/2014 8:52:28 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: BlatherNaut
Incorrect. The writings of St. Vincent of Lerins (died c. 445) led to John Henry Newman's conversion.

I was writing of Cardinal Newman, not Vincent of Lerins.

Newman was a liberal. He was vehemently opposed by Catholics in his day (American convert Orestes Brownson authored a contemporary expose on him).

72 posted on 06/17/2014 9:00:48 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: NKP_Vet
The popes thoughts on economics are his own, not Catholic Church doctrine. That’s why as a Catholic I could care less what he says.

Anything in RCC 'doctrine' that condemns pedophiles?

If not; I could not care less about them.

73 posted on 06/18/2014 2:33:10 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dangus
A speculator PREDICTS a shortage, and stocks up ahead of time.

But; the best of all; are the folks that can CAUSE a shortage; thereby becoming Master of All!


What do Ukrainians need natural gas for anyway.

It ain't winter; yet...

Let 'em burn COAL!

74 posted on 06/18/2014 2:35:40 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: sasportas
Yet the RF, supposedly a conservative forum, anti-marxist and pro-free market, is flooded with Francis fawners, go figure.

He's just a man; we can ignore what he says, does, thinks.

Only the CHURCH is All-powerful, ALL-knowing and ALL-loving.

--Catholic_Wannbe_Dude(Hail Mary!)

75 posted on 06/18/2014 2:40:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
First of all, some conservatives do put too much emphasis on economic issues rather than religious and moral issues. We suffer most of all because we do not live by the Laws of G-d, to which we are each and every one bound.

Shut UP!

How DARE you bring RELIGION into a Conservative site!

This ain't Sunday School!!!


(I read this...

...somewhere.)

76 posted on 06/18/2014 2:42:08 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

(I read this...

...somewhere.)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3168510/posts?page=68#68


77 posted on 06/18/2014 2:44:36 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: newnhdad
How long will it be before he starts promoting abortion and advocating gay marriage?

 

 

 

 

 

                       "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”

 

 

 

 

78 posted on 06/18/2014 2:47:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
The medieval RCC was not a totalitarian institution.

O...
K...

79 posted on 06/18/2014 2:50:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom
The church ought to work on dealing with the moral issues that breed corruption and the rest of the problems would largely solve themselves.

You mean SIN?

What a NOVEL idea!

80 posted on 06/18/2014 2:51:08 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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