POPE FRANCIS CONDEMNS EUROPE’S ANCIENT WALLS AGAINST ISLAM

FPM ^ | February 24, 2017 | Raymond Ibrahim

[Secret Agent Man]

Honestly don’t know. Lots of plausible potential theories, I admit.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Nope.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

You catholic fellas and gals need to do something about this problem. I’ve never seen ANYTHING like this before. All of the catholic wrong-doing of centuries past pales in comparison to what this Pope keeps saying.

[xrmusn]

Kind of ironic how a man that lives in his own city behind a wall with his own army to guard him has the nerve to tell us we are wrong for wanting to build a wall to keep illegals out and arm ourselves for protection against the same invaders (and other various slugs).

[kelly4c]

Well, the whole world will be made to worship the beast or his image. As a child I could not reconcile how America (or any modern civilization as I knew it, would ever in a million years fall under a spell to worship of an evil empire or system but, we now see how it’s starting. The Holocaust was not too far before our time yet as a kid it seemed so very long ago. And the verse about be-headings felt so medievel and outdated. Yet, here we are :(

[dr_lew]

It seems to me, as a neutral observer ( not a Catholic but conversant with Catholicism all my life ) that Francis is on an accelerating path towards the destruction of the Roman Catholic Church .

What I’m saying is, that he shocks ME, and officially, it’s none of my business!

[Daffynition]

[Ann Archy]

This Pope is a dope, and I don’t say that lightly being a practicing Catholic. He is DANGEROUS to the flock.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I bet he’s ordering the Vatican’s walls to be torn down, right?

[Claud]

Is it possible to impeach a Pope?

No, but condoning heresy causes him to lose the office automatically, after which the Cardinals can elect a new one.

It's never actually happened before is the problem...so though it seems to be a generally accepted theological principle that the Pope can lose his office for heresy, there's no "case law" on how the process unfolds.

Not coincidentally, next month there just so happens to be a conference in Paris on the Deposition of a Pope.

[all the best]

Tear down that wall.

[Claud]

Seriously. Imagine how shocking it is from the inside!

But I’m confident orthodoxy will eventually triumph....if we believed Christ’s Church could be destroyed by a bad Pope, we couldn’t really call ourselves Catholic anymore.

Demographically, as well, this seems to be the last gasp of liberalism in the Church. Its adherents are entrenched, yes, and very powerful, but also old and dying. There are no hordes of young, liberal Catholics to succeed them

All the young scrappy fighting spirit now is in the traditionalist camp. Francis, like Obama, is provoking a huge backlash.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Argentine Socialist fool.

[piusv]

Given he is a manifest heretic, God has already impeached him. We just need the Church to officially declare it.

[StormPrepper]

.if we believed Christ’s Church could be destroyed by a bad Pope, we couldn’t really call ourselves Catholic anymore.

Unless of course, it was never Christ's real Church.

Then it's prophesy fulfilled.
Acts 5:
38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

When the people chose Linus I to lead their "Church" after the death of Peter, God went and spoke face to face with His real authority on the earth, John. God never spoke to Linus, nor has He ever spoken to any Pope.

Linus I couldn't have been the real leader of the Church, because John, an apostle, chosen and authorized by God Himself was still alive on the earth. Again, God backed that up by going and speaking to John face to face. Linus had no authority from God, never did.

This is why there have never been any prophets in the Catholic Church. Even though Rev 11 clearly states there will be prophets in the last days. They aren't Catholic.

[tbpiper]

I appeal not to create walls but to build bridges

The 'bridge' would be the gospel of Jesus, but I'm not so sure this pope wouldn't consider it to be too exclusive.

[ssfromla]

So he’s ready for the walls around the Vatican to come down? Get the word out that he is wanting immigrants to come into his city.

[Claud]

Really? You want to do this now?

What are you talking about the “people chose Linus”?? The very oldest source we have (Irenaeus, ca. 160-180) says that the Apostle Peter personally appointed Linus, Cletus, and Clement over the Roman Church. Clement who, by the way, may well be the Clement mentioned by Paul, and who in any case was written to by the Church in Ephesus to settle a conflict while the apostle John was perhaps still alive—interesting in itself.

Also, two Eastern bishops: Polycarp, who sat at the feet of St. John, and Ignatius who likely did as well, both went to Rome, and both spoke in glowing terms about the Roman Church. Neither had any notion that the leaders who followed Peter “were not of God” of Christ’s Real Church as you claim.

I dunno where your got your church history from, but you’ve been fed a lot of bad information.

[Claud]

Sorry, Clement’s letter was to Corinth, not Ephesus.

[GreyFriar]

Thank you for posting this historical reminder.