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Pope To Commission Study To Find More Ways He Can Confuse People
Eye of the Tiber ^ | May 12, 2016 | Admin

Posted on 05/14/2016 9:17:01 AM PDT by ebb tide

Pope Francis said today that he would set up a commission to study whether or not he can find more ways to confuse and frustrate the living crap out of people, revealing an openness to re-examining the church’s long-held insistence on not speaking off-the-cuff.

His move was hailed as a breakthrough by those in the media who have clamored for years to be given more stuff to speculate on, and who cite research showing that a pope whose speeches were scripted and thought out produced nothing for the media to report on, and therefore, pointless.

But the idea will face stiff resistance from some who believe that finding out whether he can indeed find more ways to confuse people is the first step toward drinking during a General Audience, which recent popes have ruled out.

During a discussion at the Vatican on Thursday, which at one point touched on the fact that just saying that a completely absurd idea is a possibility just because you’re put on the spot is in itself absurd, Francis was asked about the possibility of an official commission to study the issue. His response was, in essence, “Why not?”

“Constituting an official commission that might study the question of how I can make the lives of Catholics defending the Church from misinformed Catholics annoying?” Pope Francis said out loud. “I believe yes. It would do good for the Church to clarify this point.”

“I accept,” the pope said later. “It seems useful to me to have a commission that would clarify whether all of my successors should also be obliged to speak without regard to already resolved matters.”


TOPICS: Catholic; Charismatic Christian; Evangelical Christian; Mainline Protestant
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1 posted on 05/14/2016 9:17:01 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

This Pope prates of Jesus but means Marx.


2 posted on 05/14/2016 9:19:53 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

3 posted on 05/14/2016 9:23:10 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ebb tide

He excels at that. No need for improvement.


4 posted on 05/14/2016 9:24:30 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: ebb tide

Still waiting for the pope to mention Jesus.


5 posted on 05/14/2016 9:51:23 AM PDT by javie
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To: ebb tide
"We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think that the wide circle of the American Society, or the whole wide circle of the Christian Community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the gospel and the anti-gospel, between Christ and the antichrist. The confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providence. It is, therefore, in God's Plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously." - Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, Address, 1976 Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia for bicentennial celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence
6 posted on 05/14/2016 10:01:05 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: ebb tide

So America has a president who hates and wishes to destroy his country, and a pope who wishes to destroy Catholicism and the Catholic Church.
As the Wicked Witch of the West said...”what a world, what a world.”


7 posted on 05/14/2016 10:33:49 AM PDT by jim35 (The Tree of Liberty is in dire need of refreshing.)
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To: ebb tide

Is this a joke?


8 posted on 05/14/2016 10:38:46 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts

Yes.


9 posted on 05/14/2016 10:45:32 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Thank you.. I am relived to read that. But these days one never knows.


10 posted on 05/14/2016 10:50:38 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: ebb tide

It’s very funny, though. Made me laugh.


11 posted on 05/14/2016 10:51:55 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: ebb tide

Francis about to come out of the closet?...


12 posted on 05/14/2016 11:39:57 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ebb tide

Let’s call it Vatican III.


13 posted on 05/14/2016 11:50:19 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: javie
Still waiting for the pope to mention Jesus.

Instead Bergoglio hides and denies Christ and His death on the Cross for our Redemption:


14 posted on 05/14/2016 1:09:38 PM PDT by SGNA
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To: loveliberty2
Unfortunately Wojtyla chose the antichurch and the antichrist as well.

Wojtyla denying God by worshiping the Koran:


15 posted on 05/14/2016 2:01:18 PM PDT by SGNA
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To: Just mythoughts

ribbit


16 posted on 05/14/2016 8:04:06 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Burke for Pope.)
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To: javie
"Still waiting for the pope to mention Jesus."

There's actually been quite a bit posted right here on Free Republic There's tons more if you google search the internet news.

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17 posted on 05/15/2016 5:58:21 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: ebb tide

Confuse-a-flock.


18 posted on 05/15/2016 8:22:16 PM PDT by onedoug
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