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To: ebb tide

I hope you’re wrong, but in the end have no grounds for questioning your position or supporting my own.


7 posted on 08/17/2020 3:56:09 PM PDT by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.Â)
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To: Hieronymus
I hope you’re wrong, but in the end have no grounds for questioning your position or supporting my own.

My opinion, and my opinion only, is based on Francis' reluctance to bring people into the Catholic faith, whether they're already baptized or not, e.g. Jews, Muslims, etc. He has discouraged converting members of the latter two faiths.

As for the former, baptized non-catholics:

(Tony) Palmer and Bergoglio had intense discussions about Christian separation, using the analogy of apartheid in South Africa. They found common ground in believing that institutional separation breeds fear and misunderstanding. Bergoglio, whom Palmer called “Father Mario,” acted as a spiritual father to the Protestant cleric, calming him (“he wanted to make me a reformer, not a rebel,” Palmer told me) and encouraging him in his mission to Christian unity.

At one point, when Palmer was tired of living on the frontier and wanted to become Catholic, Bergoglio advised him against conversion for the sake of the mission.

“We need to have bridge-builders”, the cardinal told him.


8 posted on 08/17/2020 5:59:35 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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