Posted on 11/07/2022 11:04:31 AM PST by ebb tide
“I have been thinking a lot these days – and we talked about it with the Grand Imam – about how the idea of the Abu Dhabi Document came about,” Francis said.
The Pope went on to explain how the idea of the Abu Dhabi document was born during a lunch with the Grand Imam where they broke bread and gave it to each other as a “gesture of friendship.”
“And towards the end, I don’t know who came up with the idea, we said, ‘Why don’t we make a paper about this meeting?’” Francis stated. “So the Abu Dhabi document was born.”
“The two secretaries got to work, with a draft going back and forth, and finally, we took advantage of the Abu Dhabi meeting to publish it.”
“It was something that came from God,” Francis proclaimed. “You can’t understand it otherwise, because none of us had this in mind. It emerged during a friendly lunch, and that is a big thing.”
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Francis went on to explain how the Abu Dhabi document served as the basis for his encyclical Fratelli Tutti which was published in October 2020.
“Then I kept thinking, and the Abu Dhabi document was the basis of Fratelli Tutti; what I wrote about human friendship in Fratelli Tutti is based on the Abu Dhabi document,” Francis said. “I believe that one cannot think of such a path without thinking of a special blessing from the Lord in this path.”
“I didn’t even know what the Great Imam’s name was, and then we became friends and did something as two friends, and now we talk every time we meet,” the Roman Pontiff stated, adding that “[t]he document is relevant today, and work is being done to make it known.”
The Abu Dhabi document has been widely criticized by faithful Catholics for putting the Catholic faith and its worship of the God of Revelation on the same plane with religions that do not worship the true God and deliberately reject Him. It also contradicts the teaching according to which there is no salvation outside of the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis made a stipulation in a private conversation with Kazakhstan’s Bishop Athanasius Schneider, saying that the diversity of religion falls under the “Permissive Will” of God, rather than his Perfect Will, meaning that God only allows false religions to exist rather than actively willing them.
Schneider stressed that the Pope must publicly correct the “dubious passage concerning the ‘diversity of religions” and that a private comment is not enough “because of the confusion in the Church that is growing daily concerning the truth that the Faith in Jesus Christ as the only Redeemer of mankind is the only religion directly and positively willed by God.”
However, the dubious passage in the document was never publicly corrected or clarified by the Pope or another Vatican official.
Ping
Francis the Fraud.
Sounds like he’s been eating magic mushrooms again
Descartes also had a revelation “from God.”_
How did this heretic take over the church? Laodecia is now.
The WHOLE thing is a joke.
;^)
The ‘pope’, Frankie, is a man of HIS god, created in his image, not the One, True, Living God, the Alpha and Omega!
Near the End, MANY will be blinded by the evil one.
I will not claim to be Catholic.. But, I was raised that way. A million years ago..
That said. for those far more knowledgeable than me.
My understanding is that the Catholic position was always, the ONLY way to heaven was to be a Believing and Practicing Catholic.
If I am reading this correct Francis is now essentially saying that “All religions are valid. And that there are many ways to attain heaven”?
Have I got that right? If that is the case, it is not a great sales pitch to get people to come to your side or stay on your side. If that is correct, Pope Yutz needs to go.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
— John 14:6
But, hey, Allah and Mohammad are also really cool ways and, when you really think about it, what’s so special about Jesus?
— Francis the Fraud
Christ, cleanse your Church!
As with the woke communists Frankie wants queered and woke church and a lot of dead white people. Yes?
Pope is punking us?
Maybe hillary showed him how to hoax half a country..or this case half the world.. into believing anything?
God or the Devil, take your pick.
So a document promoting religious indifferentism is “from God” and the Mass of Ages is not? I am not entirely convinced.
It’s probably better to say that now the “Holy Roman Catholic Church” has officially joined the rest of these hell-bound religions.
Although it’s been true for a long time, now it’s OFFICIAL!
Oh please. This has got to be his most ridiculous thing yet.
The man is an elderly leftist nutcase, and like Biden, he was a leftist nutcase long before he was elderly. But now that he’s elderly and in power, all the filters are off and he’s revealed himself to be another demented old man on the loose.
Take away his driver’s license.
Although it’s been true for a long time, now it’s OFFICIAL!
More like, from its inception.
Evil.
No other word for it.
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