Posted on 01/11/2018 6:54:52 PM PST by Salvation
That is all true, thanks.
It goes much deeper than that.
Recommend you read, The Glories of Mary.
Be prepared though..the book is full of some of the most egregious things I've read on how Roman Catholicism views Mary.
The worship of Mary runs deep in the RCC.
The Glories of Mary, by St Alphonsus de' Liguori
By your standard, I will feel free to enter your many private caucuses - where you go to get away from any criticism of your church.
Hey, that's good....I don't see how you can be denied to post on the Caucus threads.
Well played, sir!
Pinging former Roman Catholics (or as salvation notes...they are always Roman Catholics)
“If you are a baptized and confirmed Catholic — you will always be a Catholic. ”
Even better, now having entrusted myself to Him, I have assurance of salvation, am a saint, and will be glorified with Him in heaven.
It is rare and I would agree that this resignation was different from the others. The thing is a lot about the last 50 years has been “unusual”, “different”, etc. I just don’t agree with some others that Benedict was threatened or forced to resign. he did it willingly. It’s just that the former folks don’t want to accept it.
If Benedict had been followed by someone who still continued to believe and preach the Catholic faith, I might be inclined to agree.
The fact is that the formerly rhetorical question, “Is the Pope Catholic?” is no longer rhetorical.
Even God could not become man without her.
And God couldn’t create the man Adam without her either, right?
Benedict and Francis are both cut from the same Modernist, Vatican II cloth.
The angel Gabriel did not give Mary a choice. He flat out told her, this is how the whole thing is going down. You are right, however. If, by some stretch of the imagination, Mary had refused, it is likely Gabriel would have gone next door.
“Even God could not become man without her.
Ah, yes. If only God was sovereign! Darn.
Held hostage by Mary!!
Exactly The point is there is nothing special about Mary The Glory is all
Gods
Then the god you worship is not sovreign and certainly not YHWH God , the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Which is really the worship of Isis and other pagan female Gods
KR: By your standard, I will feel free to enter your many private caucuses - where you go to get away from any criticism of your church. FIXED IT.
Been there done that.
Tried it and got uninvited to participate on (aka: unceremoniou9sly booted from) the thread faster than you would believe.
Then the new RF rules state that you have to be an actively participating member of something or other in order to be on caucus threads.
IOW, a good enough Catholic.
So they claim on one hand that they want us back and encourage us to *swim the Tiber* and reject us in the meantime.
It seems to have not occurred to anyone, that if you genuinely want someone to come back, you stick your nose up in the air at them and tell them they have to make the grade to rub elbows with them again.
But nothing less than expected from a works based, you have to be good enough to earn anything, belief system.
Mary? And not JESUS?
Do tell.......
The parish I was born into and grew up in had a very traditional priest who resisted changing from Latin and turning to face the congregation.
Eventually he retired and for me the church has never been the same.
We moved to a much larger city and parish with multiple priests.
One of whom turned out to be a pedophile that the church knew about and moved around.
That’s when I left the church.
I was not a victim, but I saw lives destroyed by a church more concerned about protecting pedophiles than preventing victims.
I was happily a Methodist for many years, but they are veering left as well.
Try the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Biblically based sound teaching and a formal liturgy that will make you feel right at home
I didn’t know about the rules and got called a heretic or some such.
The RCC needs to re-open for business at Avignon, France.
It’s been done before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon_Papacy
perfectly nice papal palace there!
Let Frankie fade into irrelevancy!
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