[Catholic Caucus] VaticanNews Styles Pope as “Successor of Christ”

Eponymous Flower ^ | October 25, 2018 | Giuseppe Nardi

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(Rome) The Vatican's news portal, active since December 2017, VaticanNews, has repeatedly described Pope Francis as the "successor of Christ".

 VaticanNews spokespersons can make a “Freudian" slip. Is such a lapse underlying that which VaticanNews has repeatedly undermined?

The fact is that Vatican News, the Holy See's news agency, falsely referred to Pope Francis not as the successor to Peter or vicar of Christ on earth, but as the "successor of Christ," a name previously unknown to the Church and theologically meaning hyperpapism.

The article published on Tuesday about the papal celebrations in the coming three months of November-January ended in its first version with the note:

"[...] on Sunday, January 13, on the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord, the successor of Christ will celebrate Holy Mass and the baptism for children in the Sistine Chapel at 9:30."

After some Catholic media were amazed at the titulation, the passage in "Successor of Peter (see Lumen Gentium, 23)" was corrected.

However, this was not the first incident of its kind. Last August 29, VaticanNews published an article about Pope Francis' journey to Ireland. The headline read: "Catechesis of the Pope: The families, joy for the world, radiate the love of Christ". It read:

"In the Procathedral of Dublin, the successor of Christ declared ..."

And most recently on October 14, Vatican News wrote in the article "Pope: 'God, we can not give a percentage of love to God, either all or nothing':

"This person spoke in the terms of supply and demand, specified the successor of Christ ..."

The article dealt with the canonizations of that day, including Pope Paul VI.

Anyone who sees it favorably might assume that some of VaticanNews' staff members were not paying close attention or being taught badly in catechism lessons. Anyone who considers it with less benevolence could see in it a form of papolatry. After all, the self-imposed mission of VaticanNews is, as it was plastered in Rome on a large scale:

 "We bring Francis into the world".

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Catholic Caucus

[Ann Archy]

The Pope is the Successor of PETER, NOT JESUS!

[Steely Tom]

Pope Francis is Christ 2.0?

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Ping

[Cubs Fan]

if this pope is the vicar of anything its of satan.

[sitetest]

It reminds me of the ruin of Denethor, and the decadence of the realm in general.

[Mrs. Don-o]

This is outright heresy.

So very strange the the #1 anti-Catholic, the #1 distorter of authentic Papal doctrine, the world leader of the anti-Magisterium, is the Pope.

[RatRipper]

Just remember that Jesus stated that he would build his church on Peter and that the “gates of hell would not prevail against it”. God will fix it. We just don’t know when.

[heterosupremacist]

Clearly, Jesus cannot have ‘Successors’, only Vicars.

By completely disregarding/eviscerating his appointed role as Vicar of Christ, [in persona Christi] Bergoglio has raised the stakes.

Bergoglio once again, this time as Pope; proves his incompetence as he allegedly/validly has been elevated to the Chair of Peter.

‘Holy Father’?

Nah. Although I was born and raised in the RC Church [John XXIII passed two months before heterosupremacist became flesh, and dwelt among us] I was a shameless papist for my entire life.

I consider myself to be fully ‘Catholic’ - by the Grace of God - nowadays, declaring oneself a papist suggests to some:

Marxism, Communism, Relativism, Revisionism, Progressivism, Heterodoxy, Ecumenism, Irreverence, Sacrilege, etc.

I no longer consider myself a papist, rather, a soldier in the Church Militant!

[Mrs. Don-o]

Pray to dear Christ to either decisively correct this man or shut him down (preferably the former, but God's will be done.)

And dear Mary, victorious enemy of our Enemy...

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[dangus]

THAT’S BLASPHEMY!!!

[dangus]

When a king has a successor, that king is no longer king; his successor is. To declare the bishop of Rome (Peter) has a successor is merely to declare that Peter is no longer on Earth to reign as bishop. To declare that Christ has a successor is to worship the anti-Christ.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That's it. Any Pope who calls himself the "successor" (not "vicar", but "successor) of Christ is anti-Christ.

But what if Francis' lackeys that say that --- and the pope doesn't say so himself, but doesn't correct his lackeys either? Is that why they call the Enemy "The Deceiver"?

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To declare that Christ has a successor is to worship the anti-Christ.

And this "god of surprises" that Bergolio continually references is not God.

[ADSUM]

I think Pope Francis is losing his fight with Satan.

As Jesus told us the leader must be a servant to others.

[I want the USA back]

This pope is the successor of bammy, not Peter.

[piusv]

Or better known as a “false pope”.

[heterosupremacist]

Mrs. Don-o wrote:

This is outright heresy.
So very strange the the #1 anti-Catholic, the #1 distorter of authentic Papal doctrine, the world leader of the anti-Magisterium, is the Pope.

The truth of that statement almost knocked me over! A very disturbing observation.

[steve86]

It bothers me just as much that the local New-Mass parish, not really liberal at all, acts as though nothing is amiss.