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Pope shocker: Promotes socialism, likens Jesus to ISIS
WND ^ | 05/20/2016 | Cheryl Chumley

Posted on 05/20/2016 10:46:18 AM PDT by detective

Pope Francis, in an interview with the French newspaper La Croix, suggested a likeness between ISIS and Jesus by explaining that while “the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam,” it was quite possible to interpret certain passages of the Gospels, particularly in Matthews, as a call for Christians to go forth with this “same idea of conquest” in their discipleship.

He also faulted the free market for driving poverty, saying economies need “a state to monitor and balance them;” gun manufacturers for fueling wars; and the failures of Christians in Europe to properly assimilate with Muslims as causing much of the tensions of recent times – ostensibly, to include acts of terror.

His specific words, according to an English interpretation of his comments: “Today, I don’t think that there is a fear of Islam as such but of ISIS and its war of conquest, which is partly drawn from Islam. It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam. However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest.”

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To: Fantasywriter; detective

This may be the wrong answer, but ....... perhaps the Holy Spirit gives us the shepherd we deserve, for a greater good.

For Catholics, human sufferings are, when made a sacrificial offering to God, who suffered and cruelly died on a Cross for us, are believed redemptive for our salvation and for those of others for whom we intercede, while enduring to the end.

There is no way the Church will avoid the path of Jesus to the Cross. The Church rather dreads but embraces the Way of the Cross, as our Lord and Savior dreaded, but chose to suffer and died for us.

Our Cross is not empty, nor should it be. It is everything when he is seen stretched out, open armed, upon it. It is our faith. Lord have mercy.


41 posted on 05/20/2016 11:37:17 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: Lazamataz
JACK CHICK WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME

LOL

Though a lot of his tracts are way over the top, some are actually pretty good stuff if you are limited by a 5th grade education ...

42 posted on 05/20/2016 11:42:18 AM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Loud Mime

We Catholics did not “create” the Church. That was the work of Christ Jesus. We Catholics are but sinful humans. So are our popes. Some are much less so than others.

There is no separation of Christ and His Church. According to sacred scripture you will find no fault line between Him and His Body of Christ on earth that bears up such a statement as yours.


43 posted on 05/20/2016 11:42:33 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: lee martell

“Can a Pope be excommunicated? If so, by whom or what body of deliberation?”

That is a good question. I do not know the answer. Pope Francis is clearly not a man of God or a Catholic. He should be replaced.


44 posted on 05/20/2016 11:44:45 AM PDT by detective
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To: RitaOK

“perhaps the Holy Spirit gives us the shepherd we deserve”

I do not presume to know the will of God or the Holy spirit.

I just hope that this evil man is removed from the position of Pope and can do no further damage.


45 posted on 05/20/2016 11:48:07 AM PDT by detective
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To: RitaOK

Thanks. I confess I’m feeling thick-headed today; I may be coming down with a cold.

That said, are you saying this Pope was elected to bring suffering to Catholics?


46 posted on 05/20/2016 11:50:24 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: detective

Pray for a new Pope.


47 posted on 05/20/2016 11:55:27 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: ground_fog

If you let him drive away fom yhe sacraments, he wins.

And NONE of what you give to your local church goes to Rome.


48 posted on 05/20/2016 11:57:05 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Popman

I was thinking the same thing. I don’t ever want to hear anything like that again. They need to get their own house in order before being critical of Protestants. No one is perfect but this guy seems to be stuck on stupidity. Bless his heart.


49 posted on 05/20/2016 11:57:54 AM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: Popman

I am Catholic and I am sorry other Catholics said that. What they said is not, of course, a correct statement of the position of the Catholic Church. Indeed, it is the opposite.


50 posted on 05/20/2016 11:58:23 AM PDT by rcofdayton (.)
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To: detective

Never in my life as a Catholic did I expect to ponder such a question. Back in Catholic School, no one would have dared to even ask it out loud. It would seem blasphemous. This is back when we were taught to believe that the Pope was infallible.


51 posted on 05/20/2016 11:58:42 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Leaning Right

He’s not a dupe of anyone. He’s a lifelong lefty, and he spouts the Party Line on every subject.


52 posted on 05/20/2016 11:59:49 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: karnage
Yall should pray for him to accept Christ. Religion does not save you.
53 posted on 05/20/2016 12:00:35 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: detective

It’s a shocker only tom someone who have been living in a cave for the last several years.


54 posted on 05/20/2016 12:01:51 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: detective

Does any Catholic still consider this Pope to be Catholic?


55 posted on 05/20/2016 12:05:15 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Popman

Those Catholics are ignorant. No one can be damned who does what he is convinced is right.

If you became convinced that the Catholic Church is the church founded by Jesus Christ, and refused to join it, then you would be damned, as I am sure will agree.


56 posted on 05/20/2016 12:09:19 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: detective

He is automatically excommunicated if he obstinately persists in heresy.

The College of Cardinals has, theoretically, the power to depose him.

Nothing is going to be done, because he is 79 years old.


57 posted on 05/20/2016 12:12:09 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: ground_fog
Makes me glad to be a Protestant, though many Protestant sects are as bad as this Pope, such as the Presbyterians and Episcopals.
58 posted on 05/20/2016 12:16:06 PM PDT by Little Ray (NOTHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR IS A RIGHT.)
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To: rcofdayton
I am Catholic and I am sorry other Catholics said that. What they said is not, of course, a correct statement of the position of the Catholic Church. Indeed, it is the opposite.

"Outside the Church there is no salvation"

846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers? Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:

Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.

* * * *

I suppose that what the Catechism is telling me here is that, since I most assuredly do not believe that the Roman Catholic Church was "founded as necessary by God through Christ," my "refusal" to "enter it" does not work to deprive me of my salvation? Do I have that right?

We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

59 posted on 05/20/2016 12:20:59 PM PDT by DSH
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To: RitaOK

So, the Inquisition was a holy act?

God gave you a brain. Use it. Churches are as corruptible as governments.


60 posted on 05/20/2016 12:48:32 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance)
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