Southern New England dittos, Paul.
Is Francis "Peter the Roman"shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
I believe Dante described a special circle just for this kind of B.S.
Given that the Reporter's primary audience are cafeteria/liberal/dissident Catholics, I can only imagine what their version of a "revolution" inside of the Vatican must look like.
National Catholic Reporter. It is as not quite so reliable as the Washington Post re reporting any sort of truth. It is an ideological leftist rag. It is operating in the hubris that it can affect the Church and the Pope. It can affect the hopes and dreams of its faux Catholic and politically Left readership. It is not even quoted often and breathlessly by MSM as twenty years ago.
They thought they would get one because of Vatican II, however, God threw them a huge curveball in the form of Blessed John Paul the Great.
They partied when he was shot and fumed when he lived after it.
And, they kept hoping that the next pope would be "their" pope.
But, in order to realize a "new masonic pope" it would require that Jesus is a liar, which can not happen. He said that He would be with His Church and not leave it orphaned.
They were successful at minimizing the true Spirit and even got their butt-boys in charge of some seminaries, all to make the Church look bad and as if it had lost it's mission.
Anne Catherine Emmerich said that this "church" would be one where no angel or saint would help to build, and even the water in its water fonts would not be holy.
It is all part of the Mystery of Iniquity.
This post is going to go down as the dumbest one all week.
You cannot openly be a Catholic and a Mason. Church prohibition.
You can be a Mason and a Catholic and a member of any other religion, so long as you believe in a supreme being. Masonic Code.
If you are an atheist there is nothing for you in Masonry.
Given the current stance of the church it would be impossible to believe that Masonry seeks to install some usurper of the Church.
“National Catholic Reporter”
One of the cool things about FR is that I can always come here and find someone fawning over the Fishwrap.
Hurray! We got in, boys!