Posted on 08/26/2015 7:08:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“He had some legitimate grievances (which the Church had to address), but in the end he was neurotic about his own soul and strayed far from Christs teachings regarding salvation.”
God used fallible Luther to recover the Gospel of Grace. That is enough
It seems to me that if people spent more time worrying about their own behavior rather than the Pope’s,life would be easier for everyone.
Pope Francis is a winner at appearing loving and a loser at defending the Magisterium, just as Lance and Bonds were winners at sports but losers at real life. The phony who became the face the Reformation has no place in Rome, just as Paul VI, the phony who became pope, has not place in the Beatified. Oh well Let’s focus on the Lord and let Him sort them out.
That's probably next.
No.
Every single person—Catholic and non-Catholic, layman, priest, bishop, Cardinal—that he brings to Rome to consult or to take some office, is a noted homosexual and/or heretic.
I predict that lots and lots of filth about Bergoglio will come out once he leaves office or dies.
And to think I completed RCIA in 2000. I grew up Lutheran and left an angry teen. I realized my inner beliefs and easily became Catholic. With this and other things from the CURRENT pope, I will continue my faith in my closet. Let them be damned.
In the meantime a Catholic who wishes to attend a latin mass gets told by his bishop......
Your point doesn’t stand; there is nothing remotely “Catholic” about Rome anymore. Their birthrate is probably lower than Sparta’s.
Rome is as Catholic as Governor Cuomo in NY.
Well, he isn’t exactly a private citizen so his behavior is important. I don’t have much to say about him because I understand that just like Martin Luther and Judas (fellow priests), he is just a man.
No double-entendre at all intended to be aimed towards you, but it's much easier to ponder upon some other individual's behavior, and speculatively cast dark cloudy dispersion upon their inwards motivations, (and the opposite too, being even willfully blind to what lack & ills may be there, in hope to excuse what is inconvenient to our own sensibilities) than it is to plumb depth & recess of one's own heart, the heart being
"...deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked; Who can know it?"
May I ask you FRiendly question?
Are you trying to ruin the religion forum, or something?
Because they have admitted that he was correct and saved even the Catholic Church eventually. They no longer do most of the things with which Luther took issue, except for worship of the VM and saints.
No. It was a general comment aimed at the massive preoccupation over the Pope, especially concerning this issue.
It wasn't aimed at religion, or Catholics in particular.
IIRC, that same idea is contained in the Bible.
Oh. So you're trying to ruin the entire forum, eh?
I was joking with you (and still am).
I'd gathered that it wasn't aimed at only [Roman] Catholics, seeing how it could work beyond commentary in regards to Francis the talking Francis, who interestingly enough didn't say much of anything this time around, but still was made out to be a like a donkey (for letting a mute statue of Martin Luther stroll into some park in Rome, without raising objection?).
On another thread pertaining to the same statue, a few of the exploding heads around here took it as cue to spout their usual hatreds towards those not of "their" church (and Luther too, of course).
A bit more seriously, if the religion forum could be ruined (in the way which you suggested), I'd say "thanks".
This Vatican backing is new news to me:
ROME (RNS) The Vatican has given its backing to a central Rome square being named after Martin Luther, a church reformer excommunicated by the pope nearly 500 years ago.
You caught me.
I was joking with you (and still am).
I'm smiling.
I'd gathered that it wasn't aimed at only [Roman] Catholics, seeing how it could work beyond commentary in regards to Francis the talking Francis, who interestingly enough didn't say much of anything this time around, but still was made out to be a like a donkey (for letting a mute statue of Martin Luther stroll into some park in Rome, without raising objection?).
Uh... I don't really know enough about the Catholic Religion to know how to make fun of it.
On another thread pertaining to the same statue, a few of the exploding heads around here took it as cue to spout their usual hatreds towards those not of "their" church (and Luther too, of course).
And yet they don't see the hypocrisy.
A bit more seriously, if the religion forum could be ruined (in the way which you suggested), I'd say "thanks".
The religious forum is like the DMZ between North Korea and South Korea.
How is this a problem ? (addressed to anyone, not you specifically). Isn't this correcting an admitted mistake ?
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