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Pope Francis, "If Mary is not your Mother, you are an orphan!"
Charisma News ^ | 9/5/2014 | Jennifer LeClaire

Posted on 09/11/2014 11:19:06 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

Pope Francis has been a breath of fresh air for many Catholics seeking greater liberty and a growing concern for conservative Christians who take issue with his comments about homosexuality and other cultural issues.

But the pontiff's latest statement is sparking an uproar from believers around the world. Pope Francis sent a tweet Tuesday that absolutely violates the truth of Scripture:

"The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan," Pope Francis tweeted.

As of the time I wrote this column it had been retweeted about 4,000 times and many of the responses were in appropriately unkind. It's not appropriate to attack the pope for his beliefs. It's more appropriate to share the truth...


TOPICS: Apologetics; Ecumenism; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: bible; bigotry; catholic; mary; pope; popefrancis
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To: caww

Your commentary is not kind, Caww. You make fun of Catholics left and right. That’s not being a Christian.


1,601 posted on 09/25/2014 10:05:02 PM PDT by mlizzy ("If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended." --Mother Teresa)
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To: caww

Some people walk by sight - what they can see, touch, feel, hear, smell - but, as Christians, we are to walk by faith.


1,602 posted on 09/25/2014 10:20:31 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums
Some people walk by sight - what they can see, touch, feel, hear, smell - but, as Christians, we are to walk by faith.

There is no greater demonstration of walking by faith in all of Christian history than this:

Blessed is He who does not see and yet believes.

1,603 posted on 09/25/2014 10:30:37 PM PDT by JPX2011
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To: JPX2011
Yes, beautiful......

1327 In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: "Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking."140 -CCC
1,604 posted on 09/25/2014 10:37:23 PM PDT by mlizzy ("If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended." --Mother Teresa)
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To: JPX2011
Amen!
1,605 posted on 09/25/2014 10:40:44 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: CynicalBear
That is sure different then the admonition in scripture to eat before so you were not hungry.

Good catch! I hadn't thought of that before, but you're right.

1,606 posted on 09/25/2014 10:45:15 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: mlizzy
..."Your commentary is not kind, Caww"......

Jesus does not spare one word in his 'condemnation of the religious leaders teaching falsehood'...nor for their choices and behavior...


1,607 posted on 09/25/2014 10:48:44 PM PDT by caww
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To: Religion Moderator

“Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.”

Where did I do that?

“Also be aware that mindreading on the Religion Forum is not allowed.”

I engaged in no “mindreading.” Is it also forbidden to understand the implications of what posters write?


1,608 posted on 09/25/2014 10:54:15 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: caww
Jesus does not spare one word in his 'condemnation of the religious leaders teaching falsehood'...nor for their choices and behavior...

Interesting observation. And so the protestant, in an effort to emulate Christ spares nothing in correcting their fellow man but is unwilling to emulate the love Christ has for His Mother.

Christ: when He's convenient.

1,609 posted on 09/25/2014 10:54:58 PM PDT by JPX2011
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To: Prince of Space
Just think, if I had been born thirty years later, I would have only needed to fast one hour instead of from midnight the night before! I probably could have made it being ten and all. What's the going rate now? Is there any?

I hope you are aware that we are told in Scripture to eat first BEFORE we partake of the remembrance of the Lord's Supper so that we aren't famished. I rejoice that the Lord rescued me from the "discipline" of the traditions of men that nullified the commandments of God.

1,610 posted on 09/25/2014 10:59:26 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: caww
This commentary must have caused conniption fits,it leaves unkind in the rearview mirror...

"And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." (1 Kings 18:27)

1,611 posted on 09/25/2014 11:00:01 PM PDT by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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To: Prince of Space

Yet...here you are!


1,612 posted on 09/25/2014 11:00:12 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: pbear8
Here are some of the survivors ......also a movie has been made regarding their plight....Further the Government of Ireland has made formal apology for having been complacent with the church for allowing this to occur.

“The Magdalene Sisters“, put 10,000 women and girls as young as nine through uncompromising hardship from the foundation of the Irish state in 1922 until 1996. Run by Catholic nuns, the laundries have been accused of treating inmates like slaves, imposing a regime of fear and prayer on girls sometimes put in their care for becoming pregnant outside marriage. One in 10 inmates died, the youngest at 15. Maureen Sullivan who worked in a "Magdalene Laundry", wipes a tear during a "Magdalene Survivors Together" news conference in Dublin.....At just twelve-years-old Maureen was placed in the laundry in the Irishtown after confiding in a priest and a nun that she was being abused at home by her stepfather......Maureen's identity was taken from her, with her name changed to Frances and the next two years she remembers as being a 'very grey bleak time with a lot of cruelty and a lot of mental and physical abuse'.

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/carlowpeople/news/maureen-says-she-told-a-priest-and-a-nun-she-was-being-abused-by-her-stepfather-29071669.html


1,613 posted on 09/25/2014 11:19:17 PM PDT by caww
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To: metmom

And yet millions of children are able to accomplish this every Sunday and don’t leave the Church as adults, then go on message boards vehemently trashing their former religion.


1,614 posted on 09/25/2014 11:22:42 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: dsc

The moderator on these open threads are not your FRiends.....


1,615 posted on 09/25/2014 11:23:34 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: JPX2011

; )


1,616 posted on 09/25/2014 11:24:10 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: mlizzy

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1,617 posted on 09/25/2014 11:24:33 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: mlizzy

: )


1,618 posted on 09/25/2014 11:24:56 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: JPX2011

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1,619 posted on 09/25/2014 11:25:27 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: MamaB

That was so clever of you, not to mention mature.


1,620 posted on 09/25/2014 11:25:43 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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