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Someone said that the balance of the Church is like the balance of the bicycle: it is stable and good when it is in motion; if (the bike) motionless, it falls down. A good example”.

Jesus Christ did not tell Peter, " [18] And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock bicycle I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew Chapter 15

1 posted on 04/24/2018 6:19:00 PM PDT by ebb tide
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#gagmewithaspoon


2 posted on 04/24/2018 6:25:33 PM PDT by connyankee (#covfefe lives!)
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#gagmewithaspoon


3 posted on 04/24/2018 6:25:35 PM PDT by connyankee (#covfefe lives!)
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ha!
new things and new understandings are sometimes ok, sometimes even very beneficial... but to put it candidly I do not trust this pope’s teaching ... any changes should be carefully and Clearly explained, with whatever scriptural justification may be available........as well as any additional reasoning...
but changes should NOT be attempted via Obfuscation and Confusion! God is not an author of Confusion... (1 Cor. 14:33). And as a shepherd or teacher, a pope must be especially mindful not to mislead his flock, for..the teacher is held to a stricter judgement (James 3:1)


4 posted on 04/24/2018 6:25:54 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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Jesus in fact often talked about the bicycle, and how kick stands are works of the devil because they keep it stable while not in motion.


5 posted on 04/24/2018 6:26:37 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Let us open our minds to the idea that marriage is only between a man and a woman.

Let us open our minds to the Word of God that homosexuality is wrong.

Let us no longer be rigid but understand that fighting for God’s word and His Truth is righteous and correct.

Oh wait... that’s not what the Pope meant...


6 posted on 04/24/2018 6:28:34 PM PDT by Skywise
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Bergoglio is destroying the Roman Catholic Church from the inside — it’s how Satan works. The College of Cardinals finally got what they wanted; Bergoglio was the second choice after Benedict. Knowing that Benedict was a transitional figure, the heretics bided their time.


7 posted on 04/24/2018 6:29:18 PM PDT by nickedknack
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New things? Hmmmm....


8 posted on 04/24/2018 6:30:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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I’m not even Catholic and I despise this dangerous guy.


9 posted on 04/24/2018 6:32:02 PM PDT by GnuThere
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The Vatican is now officially one of those places you don’t dare drop the soap.


10 posted on 04/24/2018 6:36:43 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Flop + Pope = Flope


11 posted on 04/24/2018 6:37:31 PM PDT by Eddie01
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God frees, ideas and ideologies do not: they make prisoners. From this axiom, clearly expressed in the Gospel of John and his reference to the doctors of the law

There is nothing resembling this feeble-minded "axiom" in the Gospel of John.

12 posted on 04/24/2018 6:41:31 PM PDT by Fedora
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How about breaking the Ten Commandments? /s


13 posted on 04/24/2018 6:42:59 PM PDT by Trillian
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This seems to come from the Jesuit idea of “discerning the spirits.”


14 posted on 04/24/2018 6:47:48 PM PDT by Marchmain (?)
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Like married priests?


15 posted on 04/24/2018 6:52:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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John Paul = Trump

Francis = Obama

As a Catholic this is very painful to watch.


16 posted on 04/24/2018 6:54:00 PM PDT by lizma2
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Matthew 5:17.


17 posted on 04/24/2018 6:58:22 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Josephus wrote:

“Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God (by building the tower of Babel)... He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness.

“He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power.

“He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to reach. And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers.”

I mention this because, at least in the Old Testament, one of the surest ways of bringing upon yourself the wrath of God is vanity, saying that you have, or can and should have, the power of God.

Of course the number one example of this was Lucifer. But it is a recurring refrain.

Which brings us to Francis, who seems to want to rewrite the word of God in his own image.


19 posted on 04/24/2018 7:04:10 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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This is how the Church becomes “a Church in movement”, a Church that goes “beyond herself”.

A leftist concept that is analogous to the "living, breathing U.S. Constitution" claptrap.

26 posted on 04/24/2018 8:34:25 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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Our Lady of Good Success, Our Lady of La Salette, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Akita. Read all of these and there is the current state of the Church is no surprise.

Mary said Christ Himself would send someone so bad that it would shake the faithful out of their rut and make them admit there was a major problem within the clergy from top to bottom.

Bergie fits the bill and the timing is exactly what we were told it would be.

27 posted on 04/25/2018 12:17:15 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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Good analogy and verse cite.


28 posted on 04/25/2018 5:13:21 AM PDT by circlecity
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