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To: ebb tide

“No, apparently the last conclave forgot about the Holy Ghost and now we’re stuck with Francis.”

No, thankfully the Holy Spirit doesn’t take direction from you.

“Did you not hear about “Team Bergoglio”?”

How does it matter if I did or didn’t?


64 posted on 04/26/2015 1:51:35 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
No, thankfully the Holy Spirit doesn’t take direction from you.

Nor does the Holy Spirit impose Himself where He's not wanted. We have a pope who has publicly praised the Kasper heresy, labeling Kasper's evil drivel "serene" theology.

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". . . Benedict XVI, who as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was asked on Bavarian television in 1997 if the Holy Spirit is responsible for who gets elected. This was his response: "I would not say so, in the sense that the Holy Spirit picks out the Pope. ... I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus the Spirit's role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, not that he dictates the candidate for whom one must vote. Probably the only assurance he offers is that the thing cannot be totally ruined."

Then the clincher: "There are too many contrary instances of popes the Holy Spirit obviously would not have picked!"

http://www.thesacredpage.com/2013/02/no-holy-spirit-doesnt-choose-pope.html

66 posted on 04/26/2015 2:14:01 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: vladimir998
How does it matter if I did or didn’t?

Just trying to gauge how ill-informed you are. More than I thought.

74 posted on 04/26/2015 3:55:54 PM PDT by ebb tide
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