Posted on 11/18/2017 5:53:16 PM PST by marshmallow
Men offered prayer of reparation for ecumenical service led by female Protestant "priest"
PARIS (ChurchMilitant.com) - Faithful Catholics were forcibly removed and arrested for praying the Rosary in a Catholic church in Paris.
In response to an ecumenical service held in the Parish of Our Lady of White Mantles commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, about a dozen young Catholic men made reparation for what they deemed a sacrilege by praying French and Latin prayers and hymns during the service. After jeers from Catholics and Protestants in attendance, the men were arrested, some carried out of the church.
Caroline Bretones, the "pastor" of the United Protestant Church of the Marais, was invited to speak in the Catholic parish, dressed in clerics and appearing as a female "priest."
Medias-Presse-Info, a French speaking site, posted the video, noting, "The madness being without limit, these young Catholics were evacuated manu militari [with military aid] by the police for having prayed the Rosary in a Catholic church!"
"Young Catholics have expressed their opposition to seeing Protestantism, fought and condemned by the popes and the Council of Trent for centuries, to infiltrate the Catholic Church today," the article continues.
While the organist tried to drown out the men's voices, it was clear many of those in attendance were angered by the men's presence. Some argued with the men and harassed them, one lady even smacking one of them in the face with a piece of paper. They continued kneeling in prayer until police arrived and forcibly removed them.
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That’s funny, I always thought it was Catholics who hated Protestants even more than non-Christians belief systems.
I’m not into ecumenism, so I would never have participated in such an event (and surely not with an alleged female “pastor”), but I think the reaction is interesting.
Coming to a country near you.
I remember asking my fourth grade teacher who was a Catholic nun what Protestants were and she simply told me they were people who left the Catholic Church.
In other words, I was never taught to hate Protestants.
My experience is that it is the Catholic church which is infiltrating a protestant America forbidding establishment of religion by claiming its federal funding to house illegals...
In France the state owns the management of the church, people paying taxes for it. I suppose now there is a sibling rivalry between catholic and protestants who have been subhumanized into claiming their piece of government religious redistribution...
All the while, muslims pray in the middle of french streets and nothing happens to them.
JoMa
That is not the official position of the Catholic Church.
I don’t have too many issues with ordinary Catholics, but having been married into a Catholic family at one time, I can tell you from first hand experience that there was a pretty strong dislike, if not animosity, towards faithful committed Christians.
I don’t like to generalize, and I give every single person I meet the benefit of the doubt. There are plenty of alleged Christians in mainline P churches and megachurches. And there are plenty of Catholics and people of other faiths in the liberty movement.
I once sat beside a Catholic man on a flight to Vegas. I was going for business, he was going for his stag. He seemed oblivious to the inconsistency as he told me about the importance of moral leadership in the church (ie. Pope), while he was headed off to party, get plastered and perhaps visit a prostitute or two. Lost.
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