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Pope Francis is now at war with the Vatican. If he wins, the Catholic Church could fall apart
The Spectator ^ | October 18, 2015 | Damian Thompson

Posted on 10/19/2015 9:17:34 AM PDT by ebb tide

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To: MarchonDC09122009

**The Catholic Church is a doomed institution**

Are you forgetting an important quote from the Bible?

“And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”


21 posted on 10/19/2015 9:39:27 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Marcella

ping


22 posted on 10/19/2015 9:40:26 AM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ (Prepping can save you life today.))
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To: NorthMountain

23 posted on 10/19/2015 9:45:23 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Is that SOB kissing a KORAN??!?

I think I’m going to puke.


24 posted on 10/19/2015 9:48:30 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: ebb tide

And from the “American Francis”, we get this. Cupich wants the shacked up and open sodomites to receive Holy Communion. This heretic should be exiled to the farthest reaches of Siberia to never heard from again.

http://www.onepeterfive.com/breaking-archbishop-cupich-attempting-to-facilitate-sacrilegious-communion/


25 posted on 10/19/2015 9:49:27 AM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Nervous Tick

Just for your information that “SOB” is Pope John Paul II, who, together with President Reagan brought down the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc.


26 posted on 10/19/2015 9:52:07 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (I will not worship at the alter of Diversity.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
You miss the point.

Rogue monks tacking theses onto church doors didn't solve the problem of corrupt churchmen in 1517, and it won't solve the problem today.

27 posted on 10/19/2015 9:54:37 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Nervous Tick

How does your stomach handle a lesbian Lutheran bishop?


28 posted on 10/19/2015 9:55:33 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

LMAO


29 posted on 10/19/2015 9:57:49 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

LMAO


30 posted on 10/19/2015 9:57:50 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: tioga

Agreed. The Church won’t fall apart. She’ll come back stronger by overcoming those that try to destroy her.


31 posted on 10/19/2015 9:59:36 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Yes, he is kissing a koran.


32 posted on 10/19/2015 10:01:31 AM PDT by all the best
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To: trad_anglican
Is it just me, or does the concept of imposing de-centralization from the top down, seem oxymoronic?

I was just about to post the same thing. If Pope Francis is somehow implying that the decision about admittance of re-married couples to Communion should be a local matter, then it's awfully odd he would invoke some kind of Papal privilege to enforce such a decision.

In other words if the author of this piece is right then eventually Pope Francis should say or do something that would put himself in direct opposition to established Church teaching. It's an incredible claim when one thinks about it!

I think the author, and others, should take this sentence from the OP to heart: We shall have to wait until the Pope delivers a final response to the synod next year.

Why don't you just do that Mr. Thompson, instead of keeping yourself up at night worrying about what *might* happen. You'll live longer.

33 posted on 10/19/2015 10:05:11 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: ebb tide
Hmmm "the Catholic Church could fall apart," eh? P>How long has that business been operating? I'll tell you what - without knowing exactly how long the Church has been operating, I am prepared to bet that a year from now that business will still be operating.

Any takers?

34 posted on 10/19/2015 10:07:55 AM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: ebb tide

Can’t they impeach the SOB?


35 posted on 10/19/2015 10:08:16 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: all the best

Yes, he is kissing a koran.

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Except that he, in this case, is not Francis, but John Paul II.

http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A055rcKoran.htm


36 posted on 10/19/2015 10:10:43 AM PDT by dmz
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To: dmz

Yep. I didn’t bother to point it out because another post said it was JPII.


37 posted on 10/19/2015 10:12:01 AM PDT by all the best
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To: Artemis Webb; Nervous Tick
Just for your information that “SOB” is Pope John Paul II, who, together with President Reagan brought down the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc.

Even assuming that is true, does that give him license to bow to a false religion? Do you really think that his namesakes, John and Paul would have kissed a Koran? It appears that Nervous Tick's renaming is more accurate than Karol Józef Wojtyła's own renaming of himself.

38 posted on 10/19/2015 10:15:01 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: trad_anglican

“Is it just me, or does the concept of imposing de-centralization from the top down, seem oxymoronic?”

That’s what I thought! Weird. He’s going to use his central power to decentralize.


39 posted on 10/19/2015 10:15:52 AM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

P pole have been saying that for 2000 years...won’t happen


40 posted on 10/19/2015 10:16:19 AM PDT by bike800
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