Posted on 01/19/2015 5:25:30 PM PST by ebb tide
No,it is parenthood.
Pope Benedict stepped down to make way for him? Good Lord.
Sorry. The fact that Benedict XVI is still alive, means this guy’s election was dubious at best. I have tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I am becoming convinced that he is an imposter. And an idiot.
So would about 50 plus million Protestants walking into Catholic Churches and saying we're going to use your building and preach sermons. The Charismatics speaking in tongues will use it Mondays, the Holly Rollers on Tuesday, The Baptist on Wednesday, The Methodist on Thursday, The Assembly of GOD/Church of GOD/Church of Christ will use your building on Fridays and serve hamburgers to the others. Your church of course can pay the bill. We have no intentions of joining your church nor complying with your Dogma but you owe us use of your building.
That is the best analogy I can use to drive home the point we are a nation with laws and have a generous lawful immigration program immigrants should respect and so should The RCC Pope. The USA is also the most generous in foreign aid.
One good thing about this: I don’t have to live by it.
Any pronunciation or direction as to how other governments distribute their wealth as charity is not in any way morally binding on me or a government.
Seeing that regulating birth is in accord with Catholic teaching through NFP or the old rhythm method; I don’t have to have some celibate man, Pope or not, tell me how many children I should or shouldn’t have.
Like too many of the episcopate (including this bishop of Rome), they can easily step out of bounds on issues they have no authority. And oft times make an ass of themselves.
I ask myself that question every day, because every day he says something dumber than the day before. On the flight where he insulted Catholics and compared them to breeding rabbits, he goes on to tell a reporter about him kicking someone in the ass because they said something he didn’t like. Just blabbing on trying to be funny. Remember when the pope actually conducted himself with grace and dignity? Seems like a lifetime ago.
So we can now add "Rabbits"! to his "Little Book of Insults".
He lost me when he made fun of the group that gave him the spiritual bouquet.
I understand. I just couldn't help but point out that the "war" is not winnable by men no matter how many we breed into a church. God has spoken and no strategy will countermand His Word. While I can't help spouting any more than many here, I also believe that we waste far too much time and effort resisting the Evil that Jesus told us not to resist - we can't stop it except in our own personal lives when we resist temptation to join in - all we can do is carry the Word and we get so distracted by trying to stop evil, and point out all that's bad, that we often for to carry the message of His Love. I believe we are all succumbing to Satan's trickery when we do this and he is getting obese from all the popcorn.
Yeah, that infallibility thing. Well this is from a Catholic site explaining it to us heathen
Yeah, that infallibility thing. Well this is from a Catholic site explaining it to us heathen.
Infallibility belongs in a special way to the pope as head of the bishops (Matt. 16:17–19; John 21:15–17). As Vatican II remarked, it is a charism the pope “enjoys in virtue of his office, when, as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith (Luke 22:32), he proclaims by a definitive act some doctrine of faith or morals. Therefore his definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, are justly held irreformable, for they are pronounced with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, an assistance promised to him in blessed Peter.”
Here is a complete transcript of the airplane interview. Read it and weep.
Full Transcript of Pope's Press Conference on Flight from Manilak
Some excerpts:
I rebuked a woman some months ago in a parish who was pregnant eight times, with seven C-sections (cesareans). “But do you want to leave seven orphans? That is to tempt God!
That is an irresponsibility (That woman might say) 'no but I trust in god' But God gives you methods to be responsible. Some think that, excuse me if i use that word, that in order to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits.
I think the number of 3 (children) per family that you mentioned, it is the one experts say is important to keep the population going,. three per couple. When it goes below this, the other extreme happens, like what is happing in Italy.
(Sum Pro Vita: I pinged you to this post because Francis seems to discount your just "trust in God" mantra.)
Oh I missed this gem! So he's quoting the population "experts" is he?
He makes me sick.
Appalling comment. Sounds like he's trying to maintain credibility with his liberal cohorts, the "global warming" crowd, in advance of his upcoming encyclical on the environment (which he apparently considers to be one of the most critical spiritual issues of our time). 
No, I’m not confused. This is what the Pope actually said, versus the comments on the airplane and how the lamestream media interpreted those.
Are you saying the Pope did not talk on the airplane? You have the transcript before your eyes. Head in the sand syndrome?
The remarks on the airplane were in reference to the homily/speech he gave.
I’m just posted what he actually said and not what the airplane media interpreted it to be.
All the headlines were not in what he said the day before.....he may have been more casual on the plane, I really wish he would not grant those interviews since they seem to get so misconstrued.
Correction:
You posted what he said in Manila.
I posted what he said on the plane.
Apples and Oranges.
It's a double insult because rabbits "pass two distinct types of feces: hard droppings and soft black viscous pellets, the latter of which are known as caecotrophs and are immediately eaten (a behaviour known as coprophagy [a word not unfamiliar to Francis])".
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