(The False Prophet) Pope Francis Wants to Decentralize the Catholic Church to Pave the Way for the One-world Religion of One-world Government (Kingdom of Antichrist)
In July 2009, Pope Benedict XVI called for world government by stating that we needed a “true world political authority.” In December 2009, the Pope made the following statement: "It is important to acknowledge that among the causes of the present ecological crisis is the historical responsibility of the industrialized countries." The Pope continued by saying: "This means that technologically advanced societies must be prepared to encourage more sober lifestyles, while reducing their energy consumption and improving its efficiency." The Pope should understand that “climate change” is a lie, it’s not something man has caused; rather, it’s the natural cycles of the sun and its effect on our planet. This is all being done under the guise of “climate change;” let the world unite as one to stop this disaster, we are told. [Source]
Climate Change Scare is Population Reduction, Not Science
September 20, 2015IceCap.US - This statement was written by Paul Driessen as a message to EIR’s September 22, 2015 press conference in Manhattan, announcing the release of the special report, “‘Global Warming’ Scare is Population Reduction, Not Science.” The report features a lengthy interview with Driessen.
One of the dark undersides of the extreme environmental movement is its long obsession with population control. Once linked to alleged resource depletion and global famine, human population control is now tied to the assertion that our Earth cannot possibly meet everyone’s aspirations for modern housing, transportation, energy and living standards ... without causing irreversible climate change and sustainability disasters.
It is also driven by claims that human populations must be reduced and then limited to some arbitrary “carrying capacity.” President Obama’s Science Adviser John Holdren and Pope Francis’ senior climate change adviser Hans Joachim Schellnhuber both say our planet’s maximum carrying capacity is a mere one billion people. (See the special report on the unholy alliance that has been advising Pope Francis on the environment and climate change here. )
Naturally, they are carefully and deliberately vague about exactly HOW we are supposed to “progress” from 7.2 billion men, women and children on our planet today - or a projected 9.6 billion people in 2050 - to just one billion some years from now.
They prefer not to discuss how six to 8.5 billion people are to be removed from the human gene pool...which billions must perish...and who gets to decide. It’s all cloaked in pious, ecological, euphemistic language. However, statements by prominent environmentalists offer solid clues.
Mr. Holdren and Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich have written: “We need to de-develop the United States” and other developed countries, “to bring our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation.” We must then address the “ecologically feasible development of the underdeveloped countries.” [emphasis added - from their Human Ecology book]
Ehrlich also said: “Giving society cheap energy is like giving an idiot child a machine gun.” Even more outrageous, he claimed that the “instant death control” provided by DDT was “responsible for the drastic lowering of death rates” in poor countries. Since those people were not practicing birth control, certainly not at the level he deems necessary, they need to have a “death rate solution” imposed on them.
And so radical environmentalists have waged campaigns against using DDT as a powerful insect repellant to prevent malaria. They oppose modern fertilizers and biotech foods that feed more people from less land, using less water, and even during floods or droughts.
They are also viscerally against all forms of carbon-based and nuclear energy, which yield far more reliable and affordable energy, and far more energy per acre than wind, solar and biofuel alternatives.
These statements and policies make several things abundantly clear.
In the view of population control advocates - mostly less educated, darker skinned people in mostly poor, underdeveloped countries are less desirable, and less worth saving, than people in richer, mostly Caucasian countries. People in the political, ruling classes must be exempt from decisions about population control, resource allocation, housing, travel and living standards.
And someone must decide how many people, having which skills, will be needed to feed and clothe - and provide energy, raw materials and technologies for whatever portion of that remaining one billion people are not in those ruling classes.
From my perspective, it is a crime against humanity to impose policies that pretend to protect the world’s most energy-deprived masses from hypothetical, computer-generated climate, resource depletion and other catastrophes decades from now - by perpetuating energy deprivation, poverty, malnutrition and disease that now kill millions of people every year.
These are all fascinating issues. One has to wonder how the vast majority of the world’s people feel about them - and who will ask President Obama, Pope Francis, Ban Ki Moon and UN climate director Christiana Figueres some of these very troubling and inconvenient questions.
Pope calls for church that is far more decentralized
October 17, 2015
AP - Pope Francis called Saturday for a Catholic Church that is far more decentralized, where the laity play a greater role, bishops conferences take care of certain problems, and even the papacy is rethought.
Francis issued the call during a ceremony Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the institution of the Synod of Bishops, a consultative body formed during the Second Vatican Council that was intended precisely to encourage more collegiality in the running of the church by inviting bishops to offer their advice to Rome.
AP - Pope Francis called Saturday for a Catholic Church that is far more decentralized, where the laity play a greater role, bishops conferences take care of certain problems, and even the papacy is rethought.
Francis issued the call during a ceremony Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the institution of the Synod of Bishops, a consultative body formed during the Second Vatican Council that was intended precisely to encourage more collegiality in the running of the church by inviting bishops to offer their advice to Rome.
Over the past five decades, the synod has been little more than a talk-fest. But Francis has sought to re-energize it, and the contentious meeting under way at the Vatican, in which conservative and progressive bishops are squaring off over ministering to families, has been the result.
Francis noted that he launched the family synod process two years ago by sending out a questionnaire to Catholic families around the world asking for their input — a strong sign that ordinary lay Catholics have an important role to play in the governance of the church and spreading the faith.
"How would it have been possible to talk about the family without engaging families, listening to their joys and hopes, their pain and anxieties?" he said.One of the main themes running through the current synod is whether individual bishops' conferences can take on greater responsibility in charting pastoral strategies to deal with issues like ministering to gays and divorced and civilly remarried couples. Conservatives insist that only Rome can offer such doctrinal guidelines; progressives say the local churches know better what individual circumstances require.
In his speech, Francis said the church needed to reflect further on "intermediate types of collegiality" involving bishops, even going back to some aspects of the greatly decentralized church of the past.
Finally, he said a truly collegial church has implications for the papacy — and therefore relations with other Christian churches that split from Rome precisely over the primacy of the pope.
Francis has been keen to insist that he is perhaps first and foremost the bishop of Rome.
At the same time, he added, the pope is called "to guide the church of Rome that presides in the love of all the churches.""The pope is not, all by himself, above the church but rather inside it as a baptized Catholic among other baptized Catholics, and inside the episcopal college as a bishop among bishops," he said.
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There is no doubt at all that the Catholic Church has been taken over by the "gay lobby" which was evidently involved in the shooting of JPII and the wrestling takedown of B16. The result is Francis and his alliance as with J23 with the Communist establishment to create the proletariat and to then take over the "means of production". Capitalism is through and the "entitled" will rule the earth.
I am very concerned. The world is rejecting natural law at a pace unlike that in human history, and Pope Francis wants to shrink? Man is becoming mechanical in all things, and the Pope wants Rome to cease and desist?
I don't think that's a good idea. Different diocese will set different rules. Priests themselves may have different rules. People will even more shop for a priest who says what they want him to say. This may show to to be more exclusive than inclusive.
Francis' challenge to the churches authoritarian tendencies are critical to the ongoing survival of the church in the modern world. Falling back on things that worked in a time when most people were illiterate won't work now. If the church is to avoid a split or becoming a museum piece, it must change.
Divided you shall be conquered. All you do is weaken the Church and open it up to confusion as one diocese accepts this sin while another doesn't.
"Decentralize"? So in other words Christianity is variable, and beliefs are whatever the local parishes want to say they are? God doesn't work that way. We had better get back to basics.
Of course he wants to decentralize the church. That way radical priests and parishes can do whatever they want while pretending to be Catholic. Just like Francis.
Decentralization will only promote confusion in the Church about the TRUTH of God's ways and laws. It will encourage individual priests and bishops to interpret their faith in any way which suits them. Just as Satan desires.
So, Francis sends out questionnaires to find out what church members think. Hmmm, church doctrine determined by the laity? By popular vote? Really? "Who" is supposed to be guiding the bishops? Every pope who has ever been elected has been declared to have been chosen by the Holy Spirit. Chosen by God. The fact is it is all back room politics. Always has been. And you know it. The church should be run by what scripture says...not opinions or popularity polls. And my wanting to be told what to do is laughable considering that the Catholics are "told what to do" as much if not more than any group I know of.
The same enemies who hated the dove Jesus, and their leader Satan is still the same. Wake up!Jesus tells His followers to understand the scheming, wicked ways of the enemy – Satan, and His followers, just as Jesus understood those who were trying to kill Him! He wants us to be Awake! – Alert! – Wise! to the ways of those who are trying to destroy us, His followers, just as the same people – those who hated Christ 2,000 years ago - were trying to destroy Jesus when He was on earth.
The Bishops, priests, religious and laity can still play strong(er) roles in the Church without the Church being decentralized. There is not need for decentralization.
"Got something against democracy?" To determine truth? I hope everyone would.
Since when did ANY Pope ask the OPINION of the laity on CHURCH DOCTRINE?
The same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
If you want your timeless and eternal truths to change every time the media creates a new social justice issue, that would be your home.
Church doctrine doesn't change. Custom and practice can. Do you understand the difference?
This pope sounds like B. Hussein did in 2008 when he, BHO, proclaimed he wanted to fundamentally transform the United States of America. However, BHO did not lay out exactly what his intentions were, so those of us who decided to be responsible voters looked up his writings, his friends/associates and found what his priorities and prejudices are and voted against him. This pope didn't actually run for the office, that we know of, but he sure is sounding like his political comrade B. Hussein, in wanting to totally transform the Church, and also in his quest to redistribute people's money, so everything would be equal all over the globe. That would leave everyone on the planet about $10.26 annually to live on. These two guys, who live in splendor, crack me up.
Someone once likened this Pope to Mikhail Gorbachev....in many ways I think this rings true. Though for the United States Gorbachev's decentralization and ending fo the Cold War was good, the USSR feels much different. The same with the Roman Catholic Church..all bets are off once some of these decisions are decided at a local level. Even though the USSR has PUTIN, who I respect, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. The Roman Catholic Church will go the same way.
Francis refuses to preach sin. It is all about the environment causing people to commit evil. The biggest sin of all is then capitalism and the abuse of the innocent. Abortion is then caused by the exploitation of poor women. Guess to which party all of the abortion money goes?
There needs to be a Church hierarchy with final authority. When religion becomes a democracy, then you have Protestantism, where everyone is allowed to decide for themselves what God wants, which of course ends up conveniently being whatever the person wants.
The world is going to hell in a handbasket as the result of sexual depravity, atheism, abortion, and Islamic extremism, and this Pope is worried about the poor! Jesus was poor, so were his parents and apostles. Doesn't the Bible say "the poor we will always have with us." Let's rid the world of evil first; otherwise, we won't have a world worth living in, either for the poor or non-poor!
When will this pope and the Catholic church finally realize that "truth" is divisive? Therefore the Bible is "divisive". If this church continues to try to accept all behaviors and please everyone - they are violating God's word. This Pope is a liberal first, Universalist second, and a Christian wherever it does not cause political incorrectness. When reverence for man supercedes reverence for God - you have turned your back on God's word. People, please put your faith in God and his word - go back to the Bible and ask the Holy Spirit for guidance and truth. Unfortunately, you will not find it with this Pope or the Catholic church.
Post 1920's re-vamping of the Code of Canon Law each Bishop is, within his Diocese, essentially an ecclesiastic king. As long as he stays within the Canons his will is absolute law.
All you Roman Catholic Church lovers of truth
( the rest of you will not believe though one rose from the dead, Luke 16:31):
Rev 17:4. "The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color"
Then view the picture gallery and see for yourself who fits the description. Then read "The Vatican Billions" by Avro Manhattan for comprehension of Rev 17:4, "and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand".
Then read "The Vatican's Holocaust" by the same author to see who fits the description in Rev 17:6, "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus." And, lest you think it's just the ideas of one man, read a 1660 publication, "Martyrs Mirror" available online and still in print.
For a clear interpretation of the contents of the cup in the hand of the woman, ( Rev 17:4) read the current news and search 'the massive sex scandal among Catholic priests"
Then heed the clear call in Rev 18:4;
"Come out of her my people that you partake not of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues."
Your soul's destiny depends on it!
Decentralize a bunch of confused old hypocritical men in dresses - is this a laughing matter or one to have a good cry over. I'll go for laughing. It is amazing that this antiquated organization manages to exist. It's the largest business organization the world has ever seen and people keep contributing to it - with the promise of avoiding hell fire I would imagine. Talk about fleecing the all too gullible public.
Pope Francis seems to be on the same wave-length as the radical reformist German Bishops' Conference. He wants to make the Catholic Church essentially a "communion of provinces" identical to the worldwide Anglican communion, down to reducing the office and jurisdiction of the pope to a mere "bishop among bishops," "first among equals," while letting regional bishops' conferences and even individual dioceses "do their own thing." This is exactly how the Anglican communion is organized. One look at the Anglican church today will show you the outcome of this "decentralizing": division, heresy, lack of unity regarding ordained ministers, dioceses "seceding" from their province and being accepted by another province half-way around the world; no way to clarify doctrine and morals (as the archbishop of Canterbury is a toothless lion with no real jurisdictional power; he does not even have the power to appoint bishops); provinces aligning to form antagonistic factions; dioceses realigning to come under the umbrella of the faction they prefer; an entire "conference of bishops" in rebellion from the church which has its own structures, meetings and agenda, yet these bishop still remain within the Anglican communion. Anglicanism is slowly committing suicide as a church body. And Pope Francis wants the Catholic Church to model itself on the Anglican communion. What possible good could that serve, that would not be out-weighed by the conflict and division it would cause?
What the Church needs is precisely what Pope Borgoglio is NOT doing. In fact he's doing the opposite. The abuse scandal was driven by homosexual priests as proven by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which found 81% of abuses involved priests and teen age boys. That's homosexuality, period! Upon the death of the Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, a true Catholic bishop, the Pope installed a man who I believe is a homosexual. If he's not, he certainly acts like one. The Pope installed homosexuals and their sympathizers in prominent positions of the Synod beginning last year and continuing this year. The Pope knows there are homosexuals in important positions in the Roman Curia, but does nothing to remove them. Pope Borgoglio is a large part of the problem, not the solution.
I think that the Spirit is using you with this write up. Because of the degree of selfishness in every human being and inclination towards evil irrespective of your rank in the Church, such a development should not be allowed to happen. I believe that more people should raise their voices against that not in rebellion but resist what is capable of pulling down the Church quicker. I pray and hope that the Pope because of old age and human weakness is not trying to give in to something that may not augur well with the progress of the Church as soon as that is implemented. Believe me as soon as that happens, of course, greed, objective injustices, smoldering anger and so forth will breed inside our Church even without some good Catholics noticing some of them. Personally, I felt that it was one of the mistakes Benedict made and some Bishops in the US were doing "whatever" they wanted to do without their POWER. St. John Paul the Great, of blessed memory, was very strong with the centrality and centralization of the Church and that was part of his major successes as the Supreme Pontiff. Well, I do not expect everyone Pope to be him because he was exceptional and unique just as every other Pope was exceptional and unique. Let us hope that this news is just rumor mongering. May the Lord lead and guide the Holy Father, Pope Francis, in the right direction.
Orthodox Churches are sanctioned by the governments of the countries in which they reside. The Orthodox Church in Russia is the national church of the country. This is what the founding fathers warned against with Church of England being a national church and that is what the separation of church and state was truly about, not this aborted misinterpretation we have today.
Church is to the place of worship to GOD. You tell the message, you counsel according to God's word and enjoy the company of fellow believers. You don't send out surveys to ask what the church can change to get more in attendance, you don't change what God has written and you don't sugar coat sin. This is the mistake: You can't change God, and if the global population is rejecting the message, maybe it's time to notice what God said about the conditions of man's hearts in the last days. God described the heart of man and the status of the church in the last days quite well and along with all the other prophetical fulfillment events occurring, why isn't the Pope yelling from the Vatican rooftop, "Repent, your redemption draws nigh..." Oh, that's right... Francis is on record saying "You don't have to believe in God to get into heaven..." All Francis is concerned about is social justice and watering down the sins - not telling the truth that sin demands repentance and bowing to God. What he has done and said put him into a good fit for the shoes of the False Prophet. Considering everything else, the timing couldn't be better, as his role is to open the door of the Anti-Christ...
We already have the decentralized Church with power to the laity. It's called the Orthodox Church from which Rome extricated itself.
The time appointed long ago is near.
Trouble lies ahead. The barque of Jesus is floundering. There is no collegiality. This is all being orchestrated by a Marxist pope. There is no sin. It is all about a world socialist government and a one world religion. The key here is the base of Christianity on Judaism. The tabernacle is based on the Ark of the Covenant. Modern Catholicity is taking down the tabernacle, destroying the sanctuary, and creating a meeting hall. Islam is nothing more than a meeting hall with prayer rugs from someone who has visited a mosque. This is all from Teilhard de Chardin and his nexus of creating the "omega point" and the return of Christ. Someone needs to remind Sir Francis about original sin. Man is essentially evil and needs to work toward being good. That is the reason for the Crucifixion and the Redemption of Jesus the Christ. The Synod has one week remaining. It is nothing more than a giant Skinner Box for behavior modification of the traditional Catholic. Once that is done and the true intentions of a modern day Professor Harold Hill are seen, the predicted rebellion will happen. You have to know that he is prepared for that eventuality as a true Jesuit. You also have to know that he has secret contacts with Obama and the radical left. He is out to destroy capitalism and its influences on European thinking. His parents were Italian and he is a child of Peronism and its anti conquistador mentality. He is a chameleon and may very well be the devil himself. He is a modern day chef who has taken out his melting pot and thrown in Christianity, Islam, and all the others to create a new conglomerate religion. The Bible is now gone and the quicker that he is gone, the better.
The Pope is a homosexual sympathizer and we didn't need the article to tell us that. The Pope supports homosexual unions, against the teachings of the Church. The Pope is anti-Catholic and a hypocrite. He's not my favorite guy.
ralphn wrote:
Catholics will say, "We created the bible", but does it mean they follow it? NO.
Catholicism rests on the false teachings AFTER the completion of the New Testament by the Apostles (John 16: 13 and 2 Peter 1: 3-4) such as "Apostolic Succession", "Venegration (fancy term for "worship"), infant baptism, and the "birth" of Catholic church with Boniface claiming supremacy in 606 AD which was condemned by many religious leaders during his time because it was UNSCRIPTURAL.
Another false teaching is "celibacy of the priesthood". We were warned in 1 Timothy 4: 1-4 that as soon as the word of God was complete, imposters will claim to hold truth. The impostor here is Catholicism.
"In 1079 AD celibacy was first enforced for priests and bishops by Pope Gregory VII. Before this time, they were permitted to marry" . "After the Lateran Council (A.D. 1123), "... henceforth all conjugal relations on the part of the clergy ... were reduced in the eyes of Canon Law to mere concubinage"" (from the Catholic Volume 8, p. 486). "The Council of Trent (about A.D. 1550) affirmed as a matter of faith that it [celibacy] is holier than marriage" (from the "Externals of the Catholic Church, Sullivan, p. 305).
When one reads the bible, they will find that the majority of the disciples were MARRIED. Paul was a noted EXCEPTION to the general rule. In other words, the church doesn't determine whether or not a priest can marry, it is up to each priest. So if a priest wants to marry, that's good and if he doesn't, that's good as well.
"Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?" (1 Corinthians 9:5). Paul chose not to marry, but he argued that he did have the right to marry just like all the other leaders in the church who were already married.
In fact, Paul listed forbidding of marriage as a symptom of people falling away into apostasy.
"Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth" (1 Timothy 4:1-3).
The Catholic church is teaching doctrine that is foreign to the word of God.
ralphn wrote:
SPECIAL REPORT: Francis: First "Pope" to have favored homosexual civil unions / March 20, 2013 /
By Roman Catholic columnist / commentator Marielena Montesino de Stuart
(start quote) Francis, the first Cardinal from the Western Hemisphere to be elected as a successor of St. Peter, is being painted as a staunch conservative and traditionalist, mostly in Europe and the United States.
I have been saying from the first moment, that such reports are inaccurate, based on Bergoglio's record.
Clarín is Argentina's largest newspaper. Since Wednesday, March 13, when the former Cardinal Bergoglio received the majority of votes in the Conclave and became Francis – I immediately began to report on his background, providing detailed information, which shows Bergoglio's betrayal of sacred and non-negotiable Roman Catholic traditions and teachings. On Sunday, March 17 Clarín published a special edition on Francis and his life, leading up to his last day as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, of Buenos Aires.
Bergoglio's biographer, Sergio Rubin, wrote a special report in the aforementioned edition of Clarín, outlining (on page 8) how Bergoglio had shrewdly approached the issue of gay marriage, by taking a "moderate" approach in support of homosexual civil unions – and instructing his peers to do the same. The Episcopate of Argentina (the equivalent of the USCCB) opposed him – and Bergoglio was forced to confront the issue.
This is unprecedented – and makes Francis the first "Pope" to have favored homosexual unions.(end quote)
You can read the entire article online at Renew America or Roman Catholic world wordpress
ralphn wrote:
I judge your "church" to be heretical because Roman Catholic doctrines/traditions conflict with and/or contradict the Word of God. The PAPACY is unscriptural period. Heretics in truth are those who defy the Word of God.
I belong to no denomination. I am not a member of any cult.
I am a Christian. I confess Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord.
I belong to Christ who has purchased / redeemed me with his precious blood! - JuneAnnette, a Christian & witness for Christ.
I judge your "church" to be heretical because RC doctrines/traditions conflict with and/or contradict the Word of God. No popes, no Cardinals, no altar boys in Christ's church.
Let me be perfectly clear . . I don't take counsel from those who support the morally and spiritually bankrupt RC cult.
I don't take advice from the likes of you who belong to a cult that harbors pedophile priests and embraces, tolerates, sanctions and welcomes homosexual clerics.
The Roman Catholic priesthood/hierarchy is effectively a gay cloistered ecclesiastical community. Disgusting!
Homosexual priests/bishops promoting traditional family values is a contradiction in terms.
Lest you forget in the context of RC CLERGY ABUSE, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops Nat'l Review Bd. Member Dr.Paul McHugh, former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins, has said that “This behavior was homosexual predation on American Catholic youth,"
Not only have the RC “hierarchy” failed to protect the children from the sexual predators in their midst, they have embraced homosexuality in their own closeted community while simultaneously denouncing it as intrinsically evil to the Catholic laity. Their hypocrisy is breathtaking! The myth that the Roman Catholic priesthood is "uniquely configured to Christ" is completely destroyed by the reality of a priesthood that is in large part comprised of homosexuals who are neither celibate or chaste. The so-called “princes of the church” have been OUTED as pedophile protectors and hypocritical homosexuals! The tolerance of homosexual priests/bishops in their own ranks is tantamount to both teaching and condoning "evil actions"!
Christ cleansed the temple of the moneychangers but your "church" refuses to cleanse it of their homosexual clerics.
I pay no mind to those like yourself who belong to and support a "church" that has engaged in a massive cover up of clergy abuse crimes.
And I most certainly don't pay any heed to those who belong to a "church" that is HERETICAL! So save your babble for your co-religionists.
The truth is the popes of Rome bear no resemblance whatsoever to the true Apostles of Jesus Christ. A careful reading of the New Testament, and particularly the Acts of the Apostles shows the works of the true Apostles were good. Conversely, a studied examination of the lives of the popes in the historical record shows their works to be patently evil. The true Apostles were guided by selfless Christian principles of holiness, righteousness and godliness, while the popes of Rome were guided by worldly self-serving principles and those which are unarguably anti-Christian.
The tenour of the lives of true Apostles contrasted with the tenour of the lives of the popes could not be more stark. The true Apostles exemplified lives marked by virtue and holiness, being true examples to the flock, (1 Peter 5:3) while the debauched and licentious lives of the popes are the very evidence they were imposters and con men, and those of whom the true Apostles warned us of . . to wit .
“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel: for Satan himself Is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” (II Cor. 11:13-15)
Did Jesus ever teach His disciples to fine or imprison those who failed to accept the gospel? No! Did Jesus ever carry a sword? No! Did He rebuke Peter for taking up the sword? Yes!
Therefore, the true successors of Peter are not the persecutors, but the persecuted. Would God's true church ever possess prisons, guillotines, the rack, or any other form of torture? No! Any church in possession of these things is none of Christ's.
ralphn wrote:
Roman Catholicism is not Christ's church.
I am a Christian . . I belong to no cult and/or denomination . . I belong to Christ who is my Saviour & my Lord.
Only those who have been born again by the Spirit are members of His body . . Christ's church in truth, of which I am . . by the grace of God . . a member!
As Christ said: “ye must be born again . . born of God . . born of the Spirit” (John 3:3-8)
Roman Catholicism is not Christ's church!
JuneAnnette, Ralph's wife . . a Christian & witness for Christ
ralphn wrote:
Francis’ Scandalous Support for Homosexual Unions
By Margaret C. Galitzin / Source: Tradition in Action . . a Vatican 1 website
As Francis hastily emptied any symbolic significance from his unexpected encounter with Kim Davis, the Kentucky law clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue same sex marriage licenses, another piece of news broke: Pope Bergoglio had a private meeting with a longtime homosexual student-friend, Argentinean Yayo Grassi.
The Pope is embraced by Grassi, with his lover videotaping and waiting for his kiss
Grassi was accompanied by his “partner,” Indonesian Iwan Bagus, as well as four women friends. The meeting took place at the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, on September 23, 2015, a day before Davis met the Pope.
The media has been abuzz with news about how Francis denied that his meeting with Kim Davis was a “real audience.” A Vatican statement released on October 2, 2015 read: “The only real audience granted by the Pope at the Nunciature was with one of his former students and family.” By “family” one can only assume the reference is to Grassi’s lover Iwan, since Grassi introduced the four women to the Pope as “friends.”
Then, came the key point of the Vatican statement: By no means should Francis’ meeting with Davis “be considered a form of support of her position in all its particular and complex aspects.” The most the Vatican would concede is that Francis supported her position as a “conscientious objector.”
As for the Grassi meeting, everything was presented as positive: It was confirmed by the Vatican that the Pope had a private meeting with the homosexual couple, there was no protest over the video taken by Grassi’s lover and circulating widely on the web. This signifies an obvious complacency and joy on the part of the Vatican and of Francis regarding the meeting with his former homo student from Argentina.
So, the denial of any significance for the meeting with Davis and the affirmation that “the only real audience granted” was for Grassi means this: the Pope wants to support homosexuality and homosexual couples.
Checking the Yayo Grassi meeting
Let us look at this only “real audience” of the Pope in Washington DC. For readers who have not seen the video, I suggest they do so (click here) to see that I am not exaggerating in my description of the disgusting episode.
Grassi now lives in Washington DC and works as a caterer. He said in a recent interview that the Pope has known he is a homosexual for a long time. He said that when he heard the Pope was coming to Washington, he wrote a letter to Francis requesting an interview, mentioning that he would bring along his lover...
“Once I saw how busy and exhausting his schedule was in D.C., I wrote back to him saying perhaps it would be better to meet some other time,” Grassi continued. And he added: “Then, he [Francis] called me on the phone and told me that he would love to give me a hug in Washington.”
This is exactly what happened as the photos show below.
First, there was a long affectionate hug for Grassi as he went to meet Francis
In the first round of introductions, a triumphant Grassi briefly presented his lover - we can see a part of his smiling face at left in the picture above
Short emotional introductions to the women followed, and then it was time to tenderly greet and embrace Grassi’s homosexual partner
In fact, there were two kisses for him, one on each side of his cheek
The episode ended with another embrace for Grassi, who was triumphant to have his homosexuality publicly approved by the Supreme Authority of the Catholic Church.
“I feel supported by him,” Grassi later told reporters. Certainly in the two minute clip of the 15-minute “audience” Pope Bergoglio made every effort to show an unmitigated support for the homosexual and his lover.
The Grassi aftermath
Grassi was motivated to go public with his audience when the Pope's meeting with Kim Davis began to be interpreted as a support for her anti-homosexual position. Yayo Grassi said he felt obliged in conscience to speak out to defend the true position of the Bergoglio.
Grassi affirmed he was “500 percent sure” that the Pope did not initiate the meeting with Davis, since this would be completely “out of character.” He told the press how “this is a guy who is so much into integrating everybody, communicating with everybody,” that the last thing he would want to do is be hurtful and divisive with the homosexual community.
Francis poses in Rome with the Spanish transgender, at right, and his supposed ‘wife’
He gave some examples to support his opinion. Back when Bergoglio was Cardinal in Argentina and there was public debate about legalizing same-sex marriage, he said some “things that were extremely negative.”
Grassi e-mailed his friend Bergoglio, expressing “disappointment and hurt.” Bergoglio immediately responded asking for forgiveness and stating that a newspaper had taken his words out of context. “I want you to know that in my pastoral work there is no place for homophobia,” he affirmed.
In another interview, Grassi recalled that not only did Francis pronounced his famous phrase “Who am I to judge a homosexual” but also that "he had defended many people and had called for inclusion regardless of social status, nationality or [sexual] orientation. The Pope even invited a transgender Spaniard [Diego Neria Lejarraga] to the Vatican.”
In the Pope’s telephone call to him/her, he apologized for the bad treatment he/she had received and told him/her that “the Church loves you and accepts you as you are.” At that Vatican meeting, Francis gave this man/woman an embrace also, was photographed with “him” and his/her so-called “wife,” and affirmed “there is a place somewhere in the house of God for you.”
These unprecedented hugs that have reverberated across the globe tell us what Pope Francis is thinking about the kind of “pastoral care” the Church should offer homosexuals and transgenders. He plans to abolish the whole Catholic Morals...
October 7, 2015 (END QUOTE)
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Comment blocked? One prominent Catholic author believes that Pope Francis is a Catholic hater . . posting for the benefit of RCs . .
ARTICLE: Pope Francis hates the Catholic faith
By Louie Verrecchio / Source: Renew America / June 11, 2015
From the very earliest moments of his pontificate, hardly a week has passed without Pope Francis, at the very least, causing great confusion among many of the faithful. Often, his words and his deeds have been outright scandalous.
The papal improprieties of the past twenty-seven months are so numerous and so well-known that there is little need to list them here.
Besides, doing so will be of no avail for those who welcome the church-of-man, or who choose, as a deliberate act of the will, to bury their heads in the neo-conservative sandbox.
Looking ahead, all indications are that Pope Francis is about to outdo himself with the presentation of an encyclical on the environment, and this with a schismatic metropolitan and a population control advocate standing by his side.
In the more distant future, should the Lord choose to allow the Franciscan scourge to continue for another two years, the eyes of the world will witness the Successor to St. Peter celebrating the 500th anniversary of protestant revolt in 2017; the same that ushered in a pseudo-Christianity that dares to promote homosexual mock-marriages, divorce, contraception, abortion, female "priests" (practicing lesbians, included), and any number of other abominations, all in the name of Christ.
What can one say about such a pope?
Why does he do such things?
What is he thinking?
Numerous theories attempting to explain the man abound.
For example, some wish to believe that Pope Francis (who, after all, is a "son of the Church" – he said so himself) is the smartest guy in the room; a brilliant tactician employing a strategy for converting the world to Christ that is so masterful in its subtlety that we, his subjects, cannot even begin to comprehend it.
On the flip side are those who say that the man is just plain stupid.
Others are more Benedictine in their "interpretation" of Francis' more disturbing words and deeds; twisting themselves into knots in an attempt to wring "continuity" out of whole heretical cloth.
Others still, having long since taken up membership in the church-of-man, see Pope Francis as a breath of fresh air in spite of the Holy Catholic Church's near complete suffocation.
For my part, it seems that if nothing else is clear, it is entirely obvious that Pope Francis isn't the least bit serious about performing the duties of the Office of Peter, at least not as they have been understood for nearly 2,000 years.
He's also a walking "do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do" operation in hypocrisy.
He is a man who speaks rather often of "unity" while dividing like none other, who promotes "humility" while staging magnificent displays that call attention directly to himself, who trumpets collegiality while enforcing his will on the majority, who decries gossiping and name-calling while offering homilies with material that would make an insult comic blush, and so on.
At the end of the day, I think the most accurate explanation for his unseemly behavior is simply this:
Pope Francis hates the Catholic faith.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen once famously remarked, "There are not more than one hundred people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they perceive the Catholic Church to be."
I'm not so sure he had this right, but in any case, let's be perfectly clear: as it concerns the hatred that lurks within Pope Francis, it's not a matter of knowing not of what he despises.
Pope Francis knows the Catholic faith, he "gets" the Catholic faith, he is well aware of the Catholic faith; he simply hates it.
No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (Matthew 6:24)
What is mammon?
Mammon is typically considered to mean "riches," and what's more, riches in which one puts undue stock, even to the point of devoting oneself to them.
Though "mammon" most often calls to mind money, it need not be so exclusively.
In the verses preceding Mt. 6:24, Our Lord gives a lengthy discourse wherein He offers three examples of "hypocrites" who have "received their reward," namely, men who practice piety, give alms, and fast in such way as to win the acclaim of others.
With this understanding in mind, can there be any doubt that Pope Francis loves him some mammon?
I suppose one might argue that it's not so much that Pope Francis seeks mammon so understood, much less loves it, but even if this be so, there can be no arguing against the fact that mammon has been heaped upon this man and his pontificate unlike any other.
Pope Francis enjoys immense, indeed unprecedented popularity among heathens, homos and heretics, and not without reason.
And let's not be naïve; it most certainly isn't because he strikes an image of Christ so clear and compelling as to be irresistible.
No serious observer of this pontificate will contend that Pope Francis is so loved for his intrepidness in teaching the one true faith.
Rather, it is most certainly the case that he is loved by so many for the exact opposite reason: he hates the one true faith.
This much is entirely evident if one simply allows the man to speak for himself.
A supposed soundness of doctrine or discipline leads instead to a narcissistic and authoritarian elitism... (Evangelii Gauium)
In some people we see an ostentatious preoccupation for the liturgy, for doctrine and for the Church's prestige... (ibid.)
I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God... (Interview with Eugenio Scalfari)
I would not speak about "absolute" truths, even for believers... (Letter to Eugenio Scalfari)
Do you need to convince the other to become Catholic? No, no, no! (7 Aug. 2013 via CNS)
To those sincere souls who still feel compelled to "figure out" the complexities of Pope Francis vis-à-vis his deeply disturbing words and deeds, I say do yourself a favor and just stop.
The impetus for the current papal program is at once exceedingly simple, and immensely tragic:
Pope Francis hates the Catholic faith. (END QUOTE)
Michael wrote:
Related:
- Pope urges prejudices be put aside at start of family synod Associated Press
- Pope asserts marriage is forever at start of family meeting Associated Press
- The Pope Is Catholic. Get Over It! Huffington Post
- Pope defends marriage, hetero couples after gay priest bombshell AFP
- Pope urges Church to move forward as gay controversy overshadows synod AFP
Just to provide you one example. Did you see the Pope's response when asked if Muslims and Christians pray to the same God? This Pope does not appear to have even been educated on the Quran and AHadith. His primary role should be to teach and practice the truth (God's word) - even if it causes divisiveness - as Jesus did. He and the Catholic Church over the years have allowed culture to influence Biblical doctrine, instead of Biblical doctrine influencing culture.
Based upon your comments, you may be a liberal that claims to be a Christian - you may not understand some of what I posted. If so, let me know I will try to elaborate.
Where did I state that faith ALONE is enough? Do you believe a good charitable person that denies Jesus Christ as the son of God (as followers of most false religions do) are still going to heaven? If so, please provide Biblical truth that supports this.
This is just an example of how the Pope has more reverence for man, than for God. Truth is divisive. Tolerance and acceptance of all to avoid divisiveness is one of the weapons of Satan that the liberal Christian denominations have fallen prey to.
Our time on earth is a "blink of an eye" compared to eternity. This Pope and church have unfortunately focused solely on the "blink of the eye" - and not focused on helping steering wayward people away from eternal hell. Satan is applauding what the Pope is doing as he has a great influence on many people across the globe that claim to be Christian.