Posted on 06/03/2016 4:50:00 PM PDT by ebb tide
Well; read FR Catholics.
They are STILL stuck in the 1600's with Luther; fresh, hot and wet; in their minds.
Suspected cases in the Church are IMMEDIATELY reported to police.
And NEW cases are almost non-existent.
Mr. Matt, I think you know very well what is wrong with this man. You just don't want to admit to it...at least not publically.
He's an apostate, a public heretic, a non-Catholic and therefore can not possibly be your pope.
Does that go for flawed Popes as well, or are you highly selective in employing that insight?
- from the Holy Office Letter under Pius XII, On the "Ecumenical Movement", 1949
We are there folks. We are there.
And where oh where is Benedict? Burke? Schneider? Sarah?
Why haven’t they condemned this? This has been in the works for years now, no?
Perhaps because they see nothing wrong with it either.
Good thing Benedict is not like Francis and was traditional: /s
http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A357rcRatzLuther.html
Applies to all of us. It was a reminder to one of your fellow catholics.
+1
"He brought the written word to the masses!" -- during a time when the majority couldn't read.
"He freed the written word from Latin!" -- during a time when anything of consequence was recorded in Latin -- furthermore, proper translations that had been not been butchered by reformers were available in vernacular languages long before Luther came on the scene...Which were about as useful as Latin bibles to the majority of the population whom, again, were illiterate.
"Luther removed heretical editions the Catholics made to the Church!" -- such as Marian devotion, the rosary, sacred music and incense and vestments, liturgy...Oh, wait a minute, no he didn't. Misguided and wrong as Luther was, much of the changes attributed to him are the work of later Protestants.
"He freed the population from the corrupt Church hierarchy!" -- There was a lot of corruption among the hierarchy, and guess what? Much of it kept on rolling both during and after the reformation. lord-Bishops, burghers, princes, landgraves, who had been corrupt Catholics, became corrupt Protestants. Contrary to the neat (not to mention laughable) Protestant image of Post tenebras lux, the reformation was messy, inexact, and fitful. Regional politics heavily influenced how people and places embraced or opposed the reformation. princes and bishops, especially in Germany, could be Lutheran, Catholic, Lutheran-leaning Catholics or Catholic-leaning Lutherans, Lutherans who sided with Catholics or vice-versa for reasons of their own, etc. A bishop might very well continue to hold his position, allow some changes but not others, and nobody could be sure where exactly his loyalties lay. The sack of Munster (if you visit you can still see the metal cages in which Protestants roasted other Protestants alive) and the events leading up to it provide an excellent example of the type of confusion that permeated the era.
If you read carefully, I simply expressed great thankfulness that blessed Luther recovered the Gospel of Grace that saves.
***Is the Pope Catholic?***
Nope. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. A son of his father of lies.
Him and Obama should just go together on one huge apology tour against everything left in this world that is good.
Thank God the Church belongs to Jesus and not this wicked man!
***“Be a sinner and sin on bravely,” said Luther, “but have stronger faith and rejoice in Christ, who is the victory of sin, death, and the world. Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice: sin must be committed… sin cannot tear you away from Him, even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.”***
Thank God for THIS? Christ have mercy.
Excuse me but comparing David or any of the Old Testament prophets is absurd. Show me where any of them advocating sinning as much as possible.
Blessed Father Luther? I think not.
I am Catholic and I do read the Bible that’s how I know you can’t compare Luther to King David.
King David sinned but was always sorrowful and repentant. Luther was neither.
And as a disclaimer, I wouldn’t compare our new Pope to King David either. Personally I think he’s a heretic. But the Church doesn’t belong to this Pope or any other. It belongs to Christ, the creator of it.
You have no idea whether he was or was not repentant.
The point remains, God continues to use flawed people.
Whether who was repentant David our Luther?
Luther.
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