As a cradle Catholic, Pre-Vatican II, I feel like a Marine on Wake Island, 1942. But they had better leadership on Wake.
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So when Francis speaks at the UN and is expected to endorse both a Palestinian state and Agenda 2030, Europe will have an earthquake caused by John Paul II spinning in his grave. As I Catholic, I am sending my kid to Lutheran school. I can’t bear the idea of financing this pope and his socialist ways.
Folks, all we need to do is follow the money. While the Vatican itself has piles of assets the intake of the Catholic church have gone down hill as people lean further to the left. This Pope’s job isn’t to preach his or any faith, but to get people back in churches and handing over their cash every Sunday. Plain and simple. The best way to do that is to endorse the populist view points and make it seem like you give a shit about the unwashed masses’ causes. He is a POLITICIAN.
In my world where the sky is pink, religion and faith are not synonymous. Religion is an institution of MAN and therefore has the exact same flaws as EVERY other institution of man.
The Russian Orthodox church was completely controlled and complicit with the KGB during the Cold War years. Why would the corrupt Catholic church be any different?
I lost all faith in organized religion about 10 years ago after the constant drone of how bad I was and how much more of my money they needed. This is quite simply another level of the same message.
He can kiss my gun toting, Christian @$$. His opinion matters no more than the average street person.
I’m glad that I’m a Protestant.
I am grateful that my ancestors gave up listening to a Pope somewhere around 500 years ago.
We hurt ourselves by being against the goals of ending poverty, protecting the environment and respecting lives. The best way to reduce poverty and increase overall prosperity is thru free market economics. How you could go directly from Cuba to the US and come to any other conclusion is the definition of insanity.
Free market democracies protect the environment better than collectivist economies. That is writ large in the former Soviet Union and by anything that is ‘shared’ with no one accountable. Global issues require global solutions. It is easy for greenies to push us to an energy policy that decimates our industrial competiveness because they actually gain from that destruction thru fool hardy science projects.
Lastly, I’m fine with getting rid of the death penalty. If we as a society say that we are not going to kill people like Ted Bundy or other mass murders who are guilty of the most heinous crimes against humanity, you have to protect the very embodiment innocent.
Share the wealth? Why not have God multiply the fishes and loaves and solve the problem?
Turned on TV this am. All three networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) covered him. Flipped to cable, add CNN, FOX, MSNBC. Went to business channels, FBN, CNBC were all covering him. Have not seen this much coverage of a single event since 9/11.
You hit the X-ring.
Back when he was a bouncer at a ****ing bar and realized that he was going nowhere fast he had to decide whether to put on the black shirt or the red shirt (military or the chruch), he chose the church and has an efficient politician moved up the ranks to the driver seat.
Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops in the United States to open their doors to immigrants, asserting that “these people will enrich America and its Church.”
As a Latin American, the Pope apologized for “pleading my own case,” when speaking about the influx of Hispanic immigrants into the United States. He also thanked the bishops for the work they have done for immigrants in this country. …
“Perhaps you will be challenged by their diversity,” he said. “But know that they also possess resources meant to be shared. So do not be afraid to welcome them.”
The Pope also urged the bishops to offer immigrants “the warmth of the love of Christ.”
That asshole has the temerity to lecture us on immigration while living behind fortress walls, literally. Tear down the walls around Vatican City and then I’ll lend an open ear, you hypocritical socialist ****.
Truth.
This Pope is less of a religious leader and more of a politician.
A hypocrite that does things mostly for show, like taking down the golden throne at the Vatican and riding in a Fiat 500.
…all for show
Weren’t we warned about “false prophets?”
Guns are bad says the guy with armed security.
Read somewhere that the Vatican Bank was invested in beretta, maybe he should check it out and divest if true.
The Vatican Bank make our Fed look like an honest institution. Recent money laundering: here and a few other scemes here. And then there is Roberto Calvi from Banco Ambrosiano (that may have also been tied into the mysterious death of John Paul I) and then New York’s Franklin National Bank that collapsed while laundering money through massive fraud with the Vatican bank for Cosa Nostra with the Fed in for $1B (in 1974 money) to cover the losses. All the while in bed with Propaganda Due, which is like Italy’s “masonic” version of the Council on Foreign Relations - except P2 used to murder people with some frequency.
Excellent post, thanks for the links.
- So you saying that Jesus left us without a church for 1200 to 1500 years after his resurrection. Think about the problem that causes.
There’s a lot of stuff in The Catholic religion that was made up by the Romans.
- The Roman Empire or the people of Rome who run the church? What exactly?
The fact that they think the Pope is infallible is pretty ridiculous. That goes back to when the Pope was essentially in charge of the Roman Empire.
- The Pope is only infallible insofar as Church doctrine. Just as the Colonel is not going to take any advice from privates about where/when/how to deploy his troops. It merely mean he is in charge. He knows he is a man and he knows men are flawed and he says that regularly.
I grew up Catholic and didn’t agree with a lot of their interpretations on things.
- did you pay any attention at Mass?
The fact that Christians disagree on issues with the Pope is as old as the Papacy.
For reasons beyond me, humans need shamans.
They all say their god/gods needs you to do what his representative, the shaman, tells you to do.
So listen up, hypocrisy doesn’t apply to the shaman, he’s infallible.
You, you mortal cretin, better follow the path the shaman sez or you ain’t gettin past the pearly gates.
No harp playing for you.
Fu$k the pope and the catholic cabal. Directly complicit in the deportation to the camps of Jews.
Lucky for the Jews, the Protestants didn’t participate in the Holocaust…
On a lighter note, the issues with Protestantism is your ‘franchise’ system leads to quality issues- it’s like all the Ray’s pizza’s in NYC- and leads to the Westboro Baptist issues.