Posted on 05/18/2014 10:16:42 AM PDT by marshmallow
I read somewhere recently that Pope Francis has spoken more about sin and confession, and about the real existence of Satan and his demons, and the possibility of hellfire, than any recent pope. And in just two keystrokes, I came upon this:
http://www.catholicvote.org/the-media-will-never-report-what-pope-francis-just-said/
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Yeah...no, it doesn’t. I’m a new Catholic, but I’m also the product of an evangelical Protestant junior-high and high school, which (along with its sister primary school) expects administrators, faculty and staff to accept and live by standards which would be at least equally problematic for these folks, if not more so. Sure, you have the right to say, “No, I won’t submit myself to those standards.” In which case the school would say, “Then maybe your call to teaching doesn’t include teaching at schools like ours.” I’d back my alma mater on that, and I’ll happily back the dioceses enacting these clauses as well.
The “possibility” of hellfire???
Not the absolute certainty of hellfire, as Our Lady of Fatima showed the children?
I was citing the Pope's frequent references to hellfire which awaits those who do not repent of serious sin. One must say "possibility" because it depends on whether or not they repent.
Do you think he has preached hellfire to Rabbi Abraham Skorka or Omar Abboud, his upcoming traveling companions to Israel?
Did he preach hellfire at Lampedusa?
Did he preach hellfire to the atheist editor who interviewed him?
Did he slap Cardinal Kasper down at the recent synod and preach hellfire for unrepentant adulterers and those who violate Canon law and give them Holy Communion while in a state of mortal sin?
I see absolutely nothing in the contract that should offend any real Catholic at all. If you cannot at least try to live up to what are moral Catholic teachings, then don’t attempt to teach our grade schoolers. While no one expects perfection, every Catholic parent should expect that the people hired to teach and guide their children for an entire school year should be of the highest moral character possible......that’s why it is a Catholic school!!!
It is in actuality ZERO out of 10,000 ACTIVE homosexuals who meet this stipulation.
Well! That makes all the difference in the world. “Active” is the key adjective you left out of your previous statement.
“The church doesn’t give you “rights”: the church leads you to grace.”
Bears repeating.
Still, the church has some connection with rights, in that God is the source of all rights, and nothing that is offensive to God could possibly be a right.
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