Posted on 03/19/2013 8:59:25 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
As Catholics, we believe in the Apostolic Commission and its succession through the generations of bishops. However, no one who professes the Name of Christ is our enemy.
“Don’t we both try to love our neighbor as ourselves?”
Unfortunately, it sure doesn’t appear that way in perusing the religious threads here, Salvation. Sure hard to read them and ‘feel the love.’
The Pope can’t change Catholic doctrine even if he wanted to. The idea floating around leftist minds that a new “hip” Pope can just say the word and change Catholic doctrine to their liking is ridiculous. That is why it was so funny to see the libs get all excited about the new Pope thinking he could bring in contraception, abortion, homosexuality, and women Priests.
The Pope can change disciplines though, so as I understand it he could lift the rule of celibacy for Priests.
So true. They are not as bad as the Creation v Evolution threads of yore though. Now those were vicious rumbles!
“He who is not against you is for you”
Words to ponder.
“However, no one who professes the Name of Christ is our enemy.” Wow. No kidding. Perhaps, when Christ professes your name, you will mean; some thing, or not
At the big celebration when watching it live I noticed it was said that communion would be served to everyone in the crowd.
sure, we all have opinions on a whole bunch of different christian leaders.
from my experience here nobody is very shy offering opinions about christian leaders, in or out of their denomination.
don’t worry, lay catholics don’t have any sway over anything important in their dioceses either. they’re for the most part happy about that.
Whether that opinion is relevant in the matters of the Catholic Church is another thing entirely.
There are true Christians in the Catholic Church. There may even be some true Christians among the Mennonites. There are some among the Baptists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, and yes even some who claim no roots in any of the religions of men. The Catholic Church is a ‘lightning rod’ because of its size and because of its prominence. The attacks are indeed attacks on Christianity in general. Many leading the attacks on the Catholic Church claim to be Christians. By their fruits….?
The Lord has indicated to us that the systems of men are collapsing…economical, political, religious…it has begun. He has also told us not to fear the coming collapse. He is in charge! To that, we say, Amen!
I wrote the above for another, more private response to a question. It is appropriate to repeat it here. It is irresponsible for Christians, of what ever lineage, not to pray for other Christians. If you aren’t a Christian, I am not speaking to or for you. You have your own problems. If you are a Christian, I care not what your ‘Church’ affiliation is...you are my brother. I will pray for you. I will pray for God’s influence in your life and in the life of ‘your church’...and especially if ‘your church’ just elected a new ‘Papa Francisco’.
I agree.
“For example, Pope Benedict repeatedly emphasized throughout his pontificate that Protestant churches especially were not real churches and at best could only be thought of as errant theological associations.”
All I seem to recall is the media misreporting what the Pope actually said, with headlines like “Pope says Protestants not real Christians”. For some strange reason.
“It follows that these separated churches and Communities, though we believe they suffer from defects, are deprived neither of significance nor importance in the mystery of salvation. In fact the Spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as instruments of salvation, whose value derives from that fullness of grace and of truth which has been entrusted to the Catholic Church”— Pope B16, Dominus Iesus”
What a monster.
Freegards
“Don’t we both love God above all things?
Don’t we both try to love our neighbor as ourselves?”
Some of us do. Some of us would rather point their finger at other people’s religion rather than look in the mirror and do the finger pointing where it belongs.
Not just Orthodox, either. I believe the Assyrian Church of the East, the Armenian Apostolic Church, and the Polish National Catholic Church (which, despite the name, is a breakaway church NOT in communion with Rome) can all receive communion at a Roman Catholic Church. I think there’s some very rare examples of protestants could as well, but I’m not sure how that works since I believe they’d have to be from a church with valid apostolic succession that has the same beliefs about the Eucharist as the Catholic Church.
AMEN!! AMEN!! AMEN!!
Which is the more garbled: his syntax or his understanding of Catholicism? It’s a tough call.
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