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To: Dr. Thorne
"Anybody who disagrees is an apostate, destined for damnation."

Nope.

5 posted on 04/30/2015 3:22:28 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Cruz or lose!)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd; 9thLife; Arm_Bears
"Anybody who disagrees is an apostate, destined for damnation."

Anyone who thinks that,Catholic or not, is a fool cubed.

The encyclical in question will not be published for at least a month yet (last winter they were saying March, yesterday they were saying June, but this article says September? Interesting...) Shrewd guesses aside, why is everybody so sure they know what's in a document that nobody has seen?

Over the next 6 weeks or so, you can expect a multiplication of this kind of drum-beating, tendentious "pre-coverage coverage".

No matter what the Pope says, it'll rarely break through all the elaborately constructed "framing."

My #1 prediction: Pope Francis makes a big case for natural sex/gender and natural marriage, natural procreation and the natural family as part of a wider respect for God's natural creation.

My #2 prediction: Nobody in the EneMedia will mention much of Pope Francis' defense of natural sex/gender. Nor will they make the salient point that the Pope has no authority to make magisterial statements about "climate change." Geophysical science is outside of his competence.

My #3 prediction: you won't be able to separate "what he said" from "what they said he said" unless you read the whole thing in Spanish or Italian (or whatever language he's writing it in) and do your own translation.

Frankly, by the time it gets into English, I won't trust the page numbers unless I count them myself.

Remember, folks, you read it here first at Free Republic!

13 posted on 05/01/2015 7:25:57 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (So to speak.)
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