No wonder the pope was too busy to meet with Netanyahu and Kerry about the peace talks between Israel and "Palestine" last week (But had time to meet Abbas).
Posted on 10/28/2013 8:08:23 AM PDT by haffast
British parliamentarians have concluded their three-day visit to the Holy See.
Eleven members of the All Party Parliament Group, accompanied by the chaplain to Parliament Canon Pat Browne, met with the Pope on Wednesday, after the General Audience.
MP Edward Leigh declared after the three day visit that “The Holy See is an enormous soft power, it represent a religion of 1.2 billion people and so the British government and the British parliament is very interested in what the Vatican says.”
The Group, made up of representatives of both House of Parliament and all the major political parties, has encountered senior officials of the Secretariat of State, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The visit continued through a meeting with Caritas Internationalis and with the Sant’Egidio Community, a Church association dedicated to evangelisation and charity through the world.
The group’s main role monitoring the relationship between Britain and the Holy See, exploring a broad range of issues pertaining to the Vatican and the work of the Catholic Church.
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No wonder the pope was too busy to meet with Netanyahu and Kerry about the peace talks between Israel and "Palestine" last week (But had time to meet Abbas).
If you believe in Natural Law and the Truth as given to us by Jesus Christ, then the Vatican can not but have huge influence.
Stalin’s condescending question “and how many divisions does the Pope have?” shows the arrogance and blindness of purely secular rulers.
Also, unlike the Sargent Schultz at 1600 Pa. Ave. who “Knows Nothing’, the Vatican has eyes and ears everywhere and for the most part knows or at least hears everything!
Keep watching. It's going to get interesting.
You’re for US military intervention in Syria?
Speak to me about pride and arrogance.
Pope Francis and his Argentinian friend Rabbi Abraham Skorka will be visiting Israel in March.
Keep watching. It's going to get interesting.
No. It would be a disaster, possibly spiraling into WWIII and nukes use. That would affect us all.
However, Israel is our largest export market in the MiddleEast, our interests in it and a few other Arab countries need to be defended. And if the Petro-dollar cycle is disrupted, we’re toast.
**the British government and the British parliament is very interested in what the Vatican says.”**
And everyone should be.
Thank you for promoting Catholicism.
Well then I just don’t get the point of your post, as usual.
I’ve been watching.
Jewish Left is Solidly behind Pope Francis (Google David Rosen + Tony Blair too)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3054875/posts?page=1#1
“Francis had indicated in July he would visit Israel in 2014 to mark the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s visit to Jerusalem in 1964, which took place before the Vatican recognized the State of Israel. “The government of Israel granted me a unique opportunity to come to Jerusalem,” Francis said at the time.”
“The visit would mark Francis’s second to the Holy Land. He visited in 1973, arriving just as the Yom Kippur War broke out. As The Times of Israel revealed in April, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (as he was known then) spent six days confined to his Jerusalem hotel, studying the Letters of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3079927/posts
Security Blankets and “Peace and Security”
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/peaceandsecurity/index?tab=articles
Pope Francis and Rabbi Skorka make history in the Vatican
Vatican Insider ^ | 09/29/2013 | Gerard O’Connell
Posted on Sunday, September 29, 2013 11:03:20 PM by haffast
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3072760/posts?
"God triumphs over secular governments."
This is true.
" The Holy Roman Church "was established by Jesus" and sees itself over all other churches outside itself. "
That's either true (and therefore not pride and arrogance); or it's an honest mistake (and therefore not pride or arrogance.) It is does not behoove you to impute bad motives to people's religious convictions about Jesus Christ Our Lord and His Bride the Church, of which you yourself are a member.
"The Holy Roman Church should rule the world."
I know no one who says that. His kingdom is not of this world.
It’s complicated. Just keep your eyes on Jerusalem and your lamp filled with oil with some extra oil on hand.
If you think I’m helping, then great! Glad you got your computer issues straightened out. It can be frustrating dealing with those devils!
“your lamp filled with oil with some extra oil on hand.”
Do you know that the lamp symbolizes your active faith and the oil symbolizes the amount of good works you have ALREADY done which reflects how active your faith, love of neighbor and God, has been?
"I know no one who says that. His kingdom is not of this world."
Let me introduce you:
http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/i014-Sylvester.htm
The Church Should Rule the World
June 22, (AD) 2013 | Matthew Olson
http://www.ignitumtoday.com/2013/06/22/the-church-should-rule-the-world/#sthash.XJxPJbZY.dpuf
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