Posted on 08/01/2014 3:03:42 PM PDT by ebb tide
Posted by Tantumblogo in abdication of duty, Basics, disaster, Ecumenism, error, foolishness, General Catholic, horror, Papa, sadness, scandals, secularism, self-serving, sickness, the return.
I have avoided over the past week or more the incredibly damaging and scandalous actions and statements by Pope Francis with regard to his evangelical buddies in the hopes these scandals might go away. But eventually it became too much to avoid. Apparently, TFG has been meeting and cavorting with these hucksters all summer. Scandal has piled on scandal. This is not a matter of translations, or spin. The statements are too cohesive, too similar, and repetitious to be mere accidents of one kind or another. And the worst of all just occurred.
In a truly incredible statement reported by Sandro Magister in La Repubblica and picked up by Rorate, TFG has apologized for the Church blocking the growth of pentecostal sects:
For example, Bergoglio has spent weeks behind the scenes cultivating relationships with the heads of the powerful “Evangelical” communities of the United States. He has spent hour after hour in their company at his residence in Santa Marta. He has invited them for lunch. He immortalized one of these convivial moments by giving a high five, amid raucous laughter, to Pastor James Robinson, one of the most successful American televangelists.
When no one knew anything about it yet, it was Francis who alerted them about his intention to go visit their Italian colleague in Caserta, and explained the reason: “To extend the apologies of the Catholic Church for the damage that has been done to them by obstructing the growth of their communities.”
Bear in mind, these are the very sects that are absolutely GUTTING the Church in Central and South America! These are the sects that have seen explosive growth in exclusively Catholic areas over the past several decades of liberal heresy. And we are to apologize to them? How about they apologize for all the false lies they spread about the Church and what She believes, for all the souls they have lured away under false pretenses, for all the immense damage they have done to the Body of Christ?
One must ask how any Catholic could even think to apologize for these aggressively hostile and even rapacious sects? But the Pope? How mammoth the indifference to say such………
At some point one has to ask in dismayed wonder, what could he possibly be thinking? He seems to have such an ideologically indifferentist understanding of Christianity and all the horribly erroneous sects that he feels they are fully equivalent to the Church – or maybe quite a bit better. This is, of course, the highly erroneous and incredibly damaging view the radical progressive wing of the Church (if they can be called part of the Church) has been advancing for the past several decades. But it also raises so many stark question as to beggar the imagination:
What is the Holy Father’s view regarding the Blessed Sacrament? These sects don’t have it, Christ said it was necessary for salvation. Does the Holy Father believe such? Pope Francis claims to be very Marian. But the sects hate, attack, besmirch, and revile Our Blessed Mother. How Marian can you be if you so adore these false sects? What about Authority? These sects don’t have it, they are beyond the nice TV veneer a nest of frequently vicious squabbling and mutual loathing. They divide against each other daily into endlessly multiplying and exclusive groups. They are the entire opposite of the Church Christ founded. How can anyone pretend otherwise? What about virtue? Are all these millionaire evangelists like Copeland and Robinson virtuous, selling false “prosperity gospels” to desperate people in exchange for their donations, donations often wrangled from poor lost souls after extensive manipulation? What on earth does the Church have to gain from pretending these shysters are anything but what they are, enemies of the Faith growing rich by stealing deluded souls from the One True Church? How far divorced from reality does a South American prelate have to be to believe the Church has done anything but provide the richest feeding ground for the sects imaginable with all the liberal indifferentism and the trashing of our Ancient Rite and moral code? What opposition? My God, what does TFG want? Nothing left? What can one say at this point? This is simply a period in the Church’s history that will have to be endured, praying and fasting as best we can to ameliorate this catastrophe. God must be sorely displeased with us to inflict us with TFG. I do not know what will be left in 4 or 5 years, but millions of souls will fall away absent one of the greatest miracles in Church history.
Let us forego, however, judgments of the Holy Father’s soul or claims of heresy. That is not for us to make. We can look at objective prudential and semi-official acts and express disagreement and dismay, but not go into formal claims. That is not for us to do.
I agree with your first paragraph.
But what is OTC?
“Over The Counter” as in Prilosec, OTC ;-)
Thanks.
Catholics like to wear the martyr badge.
It seems to make them feel good to somehow think that everyone is talking about them behind their backs.
Like boatbums said, PPPP - poor, pitiful, persecuted papists.
Everyone is out to get them. Poor babies.
Would it surprise you?
I don’t know if you believe in the end times teachings as Protestants/Evangelicals see it in Scripture, but IMO, this sort of thing is the perfect set up for the rise of the anti-Christ, the false prophet, and the one world government.
The technology is in place to effect it, and it seems that people are being put in positions of power to enact it.
Might want to give it some thought if you don’t because it seems to be a little more than co-incidental to me.
OTC = One True Church
I have been Baptist since the late 1950’s and not once have I heard a minister mention Catholics.. In fact, when we have programs with lots of non members attending, our minister will tell them to find a Bible believing church to be active in. He never says you have to become a member of our church. I just do not understand their belief that they are on everyone else’s minds.
What does the word “pontifex” mean?
Thanks. Unfortunately, we Catholics now have a pope who apparently doesn’t believe in a OTC.
Doesn’t give us “sour-puss”, “self-absorbed, Promethean neo-Pelagian”, rosary-counters” much of a leg to stand on.
There’s always Jesus.
He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, and when men fail us, as they will, He is always there.
True! And I see Him, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity at every Mass. Thanks for the encouraging words!
Doesn't sound like you guys get to choose.
Except when they’re not the pope. Which is why I hold to the sedevacantist view regarding the crisis in the Church these days. With each passing day, this guy, more than any other post Vatican II pope, looks more and more like an anti-pope.
I wouldn’t be surprised if these are the end times. Catholic prophecy also speaks of these times and more and more it looks like the Great Apostasy could be upon us.
A couple of years ago, that viewpoint would have got you ran on this forum. Best stay off the caucus threads with this admission.
Oh, I’ve heard. That’s okay. I follow the rules here even if I consider myself just as much of a Catholic as those who say I’m not.
As far as I know the only issue we have is that y'all make her into an idol.
Look up latria, hyperdulia, and dulia.
And maybe then you’ll stop the lies about Catholics and idols.
Idolators always come up with rationale and excuses. On that grand and terrifying day we will be called into account all sin, to include idolatry of Mary. Well those that do so anyway.
Why do y’all though money at Joel Olsteen’s every footstep?
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