Why Would All These People Lie About Pope Francis?

blog.steveskojec.com ^ | 7/19/2014 | Steve Skojec

[steve86]

washington-area-welcomes-a-record-number-of-catholic-converts

Mostly gays and protestants who don't really intend to become Catholic? Who am I to judge?

[Alex Murphy]

According to Marie Kane, the Pope “listened intently” to her and “at times seemed frustrated by what he was hearing” about her experiences. Her case was covered in the Murphy Report into the mishandling of allegations of clerical abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin. Her abuser was taken out of ministry but has not been defrocked.

Ping for later

[Springfield Reformer]

The pseudepigraphical theory has problems of its own:

http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=honors

It’s important to understand what generated the German School in the first place: The rejection of Biblical supernaturalism. According to this inherently skeptical view, Paul, John et al could not have known to oppose Gnosticism so presciently as they did, therefore their writing of it proves it was actually a lying later author capitalizing on their good names. But the spiritual reality is the Holy Spirit DID know what was coming and what already was happening in the First Century, and thus included essential teaching on the matter.

That’s why the German School is always going to be on the wrong side of these analyses. They don’t get the supernatural aspect at all. Which is why it is simply incorrect to say that scholarship universally rejects Pauline authorship of the pastorals. Any scholar who is an old school believer in the power of God and the inerrancy of His word can look at the same evidence and conclude that the traditional view of Paul’s authorship of the pastorals is actually the least strained of the available interpretations, and of those there appear to be quite a few remaining.

[Jim from C-Town]

Francis may be a good man and a good priest, but I fear he is a less than stellar pontiff. He seems less than clear in his doctrine.

[Jim from C-Town]

‘You are misunderstanding Pope Francis’s meaning.’

Than the pope should speak clearly or not at all. Better to be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

[piusv]

You just did,why are you angry at the church.?

Are you saying Brian lied? If so, show us where he lied.

[defconw]

I guess people would prefer that the Pope be draconian with these poor souls who are already hurting. So he should say either be at Mass Sunday morning or ELSE!

I guess that is the message they want to hear.

What she needed to hear, was just because she was hurt by the church, she is still part of the Church. That because sinful man hurt her, does not mean that Jesus is not still there for her.

Throwing chapter and verse and the CCC and the Council of you name it at someone who is hurt is not going to help them at all.

Pastoral care means listening and discerning what that individual person needs at the time. When you have a serious problem it helps to go to the same priest every time to help you work on it.

I am all for rules. I am a Catholic, I love the rules! But love needs to supersede and must come first. Love really can conquer all, but beating someone down with the rules will not help them heal.

[mlizzy]

I don’t remember this kind or level of infighting among Catholics faithful to the Magisterium on FreeRepublic or the blogs under Popes JPII or BXVI.

The infighting over Pope Francis on Free Republic reminds me of the Catholic fighting in general over Medjugorje. I just left our adoration chapel and there were some five pro-Medjugorje books/magazines on/at the pews themselves. I wanted to scoop them up to burn them all or at least toss them out.

I appreciate your [words and] concern on Pope Francis, Brian. He needs many prayers. Leaders, in general, are supposed to be crystal clear, and he is not.