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“Is the Pope Catholic?”
That rhetorical question has traditionally served as a humorous reply to the obvious. Now, at least for one Catholic bishop, it becomes a legitimate query into the previously unthinkable.
Bishop Joseph Strickland, who served the Diocese of Tyler, Texas until November, accused Pope Francis and his highest subordinates at the Vatican of apostasy. Strickland made the charge Aug. 23 on Substack.
In making his case, Strickland mentioned visions from a Japanese nun “about an apostasy which would begin at the top,” he wrote. The Catholic Church considers those visions legitimate. But Strickland’s case goes beyond subjective criteria.
“Our national political system, the Vatican, and too many influential organizations around the world are engaged in a program that is nothing short of a twenty-first century betrayal of Jesus Christ and His Church,” Strickland wrote. “Like the betrayal of Judas Iscariot almost two thousand years ago, this present-day betrayal is emanating even from those at the very heart of the Church and the state.”
As FrontPage Magazine reported, Francis endorses the United Nations’ Agenda 2030, which reflects the Vatican’s embrace of globalist, materialist utopianism that began at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). As FrontPage also reported, Francis’ papacy prioritizes environmental sustainability, economic redistribution, unlimited immigration and gender ideology over the church’s historic teachings against abortion and homosexuality.
Strickland’s criticism has been unrelenting. Two years ago, the bishop linked to a video from The Remnant, a traditionalist Catholic newspaper, that criticized the pope for giving communion to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who served as Speaker of the House and supports legalized abortion.
The piece included comments from Editor Michael Matt, who called Francis a “diabolically disordered clown” who “is in opposition to 2,000 years of church teaching,” he said. Newsmax’s Chris Salcedo, another Catholic, added that “Rome and Pope Francis have lost their teaching authority with this move” which “is worthy of Judas Iscariot,” he said.
In May 2023, Strickland tweeted that he rejects the pope’s “program of undermining the Deposit of Faith” and encouraged Catholics to “follow Jesus.” That October at a conference in Rome, Strickland read a letter that called Francis “a usurper of Peter’s chair” before he said the pope “supported an attack on the sacred.”
One month later, Francis removed Strickland from his episcopal position.
But Francis is no outlier. Not only does he represent the logical consequence of the Vatican’s support for what Pope Benedict XVI called “a true world political authority … with teeth…to manage the global economy.” Francis also embodies Catholic leadership’s disregard for the fundamentals of their own faith.
Malachi Martin, a traditionalist and a former Jesuit priest, went farther than Strickland. During the 1990s, in a series of interviews available on YouTube, Martin described the church’s dire state with Bernard Janzen, another traditionalist.
During his career, Martin studied the Dead Sea Scrolls as a biblical scholar for a pontifical university and served as the secretary for an influential cardinal during the Second Vatican Council. After leaving the Jesuits, he achieved widespread recognition as an author.
For Martin, the rot corrodes far more than the Vatican.
“The organization,” Martin said, “the Roman Catholic Organization, as an organization, that is composed of cardinals, bishops, priests, religious, nuns, with schools and academies, and institutions, parishes and dioceses and everything that goes along with this, that this, as an organization, is in apostasy.”
Where the false shepherds go, the ignorant sheep will follow.
“At the present moment a sizable majority of people are in apostasy, have been led into apostasy, and a sizable minority of cardinals, bishops, priests, and religious (nuns) are in apostasy,” Martin said. “They no longer profess the basic truths of Christianity – forget Catholicism.”
If such authorities no longer profess those basic truths, then what do those authorities believe?
“They want to completely de-supernaturalize Roman Catholic teaching so that we become good unsupernaturally motivated human beings,” Martin said. “The assault is very simple: Just be like the rest of men. Adore a general God. Be good. Be compassionate men. Be humanitarian. Join man in building man’s earthly habitation in this world.”
That certainly sounds like Francis. It also sounds like Agenda 2030.
Martin’s interviews took place during the reign of John Paul II, arguably the most revered and beloved pope of modern times. But Martin offered an indictment in his 1990 book, The Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order.
“John Paul’s concentration and febrile activity were directed almost exclusively to the geopolitical issue in human affairs,” Martin wrote. “Apart from now and again repeating traditional doctrines, he did nothing and is doing nothing to halt that deterioration. Isolated words not followed by concrete applications have done nothing effective to correct it.
“John Paul has, in sum, not even attempted to reform the very obvious deformations affecting and finally liquidating his churchly institution. At one early moment, he even asserted that his Church structure could not be reformed.”
That assertion cost one would-be Catholic his faith in God.
As the Los Angeles Times’ religion reporter two decades ago, William Lobdell was studying to convert from evangelical Protestantism to Catholicism. But the day before making his final decision, Lobdell decided he could no longer believe in God. Years of covering religious corruption — including the Catholic sex-abuse crisis — overwhelmed him.
In 2007, Lobdell wrote a column explaining his transition to atheism. One response he received astonished him.
“I got an e-mail from someone deep inside the Vatican,” Lobdell said, “who says there are many people in the Vatican who don’t believe any of this stuff, not surprisingly.”
So if Martin’s indictment is correct, it reflects a situation that has lasted at least for decades, if not longer. But if the Catholic Church is apostate, what does that mean?
For the clerical leadership, widespread apostasy destroys the credibility of a fundamental element of Catholic belief: God protects the church’s teaching authority from error and, consequently, the church represents the fullness of revealed truth.
Perhaps the dogma most associated with those concepts is papal infallibility, the belief that God protects the pope from error when he formally teaches on faith and morals in his pastoral role to the world at large. When the pope makes such an announcement, Catholics consider him to be acting “ex cathedra,” Latin for “from the chair,” or throne.
In theory, papal infallibility is limited. Pius XII made the last technically infallible declaration in 1950 concerning the bodily assumption of Mary, Jesus’ mother. In practice, however, papal infallibility allows popes to bypass dogmatic limits and promote agendas that directly contradict historic teaching.
As FrontPage reported, Francis does just that through stealth and rhetorical subterfuge. John Paul II used the same techniques to change Catholic teaching on capital punishment for murder, and revised the catechism in 1997 to open the possibility for an abolitionist position that contradicts Scripture. In 2018, Francis took John Paul’s position to its logical extent by calling capital punishment “morally inadmissible,” thereby formalizing abolitionism in the catechism.
Papal infallibility also creates a cult of papal personality that distorts Catholic teaching and reinforces the Catholic tendency to offer blind deference to clerical authorities.
“Pope Francis breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants, because he is ‘free from disordered attachments,’ ” the Rev. Thomas Rosica, the English-language attache in the Vatican’s press office, wrote in 2018. “Our Church has indeed entered a new phase: with the advent of this first Jesuit pope, it is openly ruled by an individual rather than by the authority of Scripture alone or even its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture.”
Ironically, Rosica was so sycophantic that he plagiarized those comments from an anti-Catholic blog.
For the laity, widespread apostasy exposes a complacency that relies too much on clerical authority, which cults of papal personality exploit, as Rosica demonstrated. Reinforcing that complacency is a popular interpretation of Matthew 16, which assumes that no matter how bad things get, the “gates of Hell will not prevail” against the Catholic Church as an ecclesiastical institution.
John Zmirak, a Catholic author and editor for The Stream, described that complacency with blunt, passionate eloquence:
“(T)o too many Catholics, the Church has become a cult of authority,” Zmirak wrote, “as if God became man, died on a cross, and rose from the dead for the sake of creating the institution of the papacy — and giving us some infallible authority that would spare us the effort of thinking. Just color within the lines, get your card punched every Sunday, don’t question your betters, and God will contractually owe you an eternity in the great bingo hall in the sky.”
If Francis’ election accelerated a long-standing trend toward apostasy – and if complacency reinforces that apostasy – should Catholics realistically expect the divine protection Matthew 16 implies?
Consider how the Old Testament portrays the Israelites. Despite being commissioned as God’s oracle to the world, the Israelites disregarded that role for increasingly intense idolatry. As a result, Assyria and Babylonia destroyed the Israelites’ political independence and took them into captive exile.
Given such a portrayal, can Catholics truly afford to be silent about a wholesale rejection of the faith?
The satanic catholic fake church… is satanic!
The satanic catholic fake church DOESN’T need Jesus…
1) They have Mary as their intercessor
2) They have dead saints to pray to
3) They have indulgences/good works to earn their salvation… like satanic islam does
4) They worship the fake god allah who has no Sons
5) They have Purgatory Prison to earn themselves into islamic paradise
6) They have all authority from heaven since God retired
7) They have the Poop as the Vicar of Christ on earth
All Jesus is to the satanic catholic fake church is… to prime the cult members to become cannibals… like satanic worshiping muslims who eat the hearts and drink the blood of their victims…
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The satanic catholic fake church is… satanic!
catholics believe that all authority was passed to Simon Barjona (Peter)… which makes them the authority over The Word of God.
What they fail to see and get past their brainwashing is…
A) The conversation was with all the Disciples
B) Christ Jesus is the Rock
C) The Power to Bind & Loose was given to all the Disciples present which has thus been passed to all Christians.
catholic are brainwashed to believe everything was passed to Peter… as if he was the 1st Vicar on earth… in order for them to be brainwashed into believing their (satanic) catholic (fake) church has the authority over everything. <<< It's quite pompous
Of course… now the satanic catholic fake church teaches they worship the fake god allah of satanic islam…
The gates of hell has prevailed over catholicism…
Two points:
1. I worshipped as a Catholic for most of my life and I can tell you categorically that Catholics do *not* worship Allah. Now, a lot of a Catholic bishops (including this pope and John Paul II) have an indulgent attitude toward Islam because they see it through their own fantasies and not for what it is, But Catholics do *not* worship Allah in any way, shape or form. If Francis is trying to encourage that, then he’s an apostate (which could well be the case regardless of his views on Islam).
2. You are absolutely right about Matthew 16: When Jesus said “on this rock I will build my church,” he was referring to himself as “rock,” not Peter or Peter’s declaration of faith.
Yes Joesph… C’lics do worship the fake god allah of satanic islam…
CCC #841… says… “The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”
(((((((((( Let me point out again what everyone should read…))))))))))
A) “the creator” = Singular as in one god… (which is not true… allah is a fake moon god)
B) “together with us they adore the one, merciful God”
1) together = catholic’s & muslims
2) adore the one = one god… not two… not three
3) one, merciful god = one god… not two… not three
And here is the passage of Nostra Aetate, Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christan Religions (Paul VI, 1965), to which the Poop refers in the first quote above:
“The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.”
Though I have never been a Catholic, my reading has been sufficiently wide to assure me that it is the God of the Bible whom Catholic Christians worship. On Matthew 16, the thing that struck me recently was that, if Peter had been given a hierarchically higher position than the other apostles, they would not have kept arguing about who was the greatest, because they would have accepted that they had already been told.
Their statements and confessions of acknowledging the fake god allah as their god is proof they don’t worship the One The Living God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob…
The satanic quran specifically says that allah has no sons…
So then… how can any person worship the One True Living God… the Father of our Lord & Savior, Christ Jesus? The Son of God… the Word of God made Flesh…
No one can…
No one can accept Christ Jesus as the Son of God while worshiping the fake god allah as their god, who has no sons.
Christians around the world are being duped into satanism… worshiping a false god…
the fake god allah goes back to the Tower of Babel… once called Baal… and Hubal… now called allah… new name… same fake god…
Look up the story of Elijah and the Baal prophets… and know that allah is the same fake god with a new name…
We do not believe in indulgences, we believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins. But that doesn’t mean just because we know that Christ died for our sins we will be saved no matter what evil we should decide to do.. And frankly, I am getting a little tired of having to repeat myself to you.
You may say they are not Indulgences… but “good Works” is required for Salvation.
Roman Catholicism has no savior that is sufficient to save sinners completely. Catholic salvation is conditional and is based on what each Catholic does for God instead of what God has done. Purgatory and indulgences are necessary because the “Catholic Jesus” is unable to save completely…
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Here’s some awful things the catholic fake church does…
1) They have wrongly defined sins on two levels… the bad ones and the not so bad ones…
A) Sins = really bad
B) Venial sins = the not so bad ones
2) They have wrongly created Indulgences… which are works that can be performed to decrease the punishment of your sin in Purgatory
A) Plenary Indulgences = full pardon of punishment
B) Partial Indulgences = a partial decrease in punishment
And here is the KICKER…
A Plenary, full pardon from punishment of sin is one where you basically worship the Pope.
Catholic/online says… “prayer for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff”… and… “the standard prayers for the Pope are one Our Father and one Creed” <<< Tell me… is that not setting up the Poop as some fake god? <<< I say it is…
Many satanic catholic fake church cult members lay claim to James 2:17 as evidence that they are required to perform "good works" and "Indulgences" to pay off purgatory.
Salvation is never guaranteed to a C'lic cult member… just like paradise isn't ever guaranteed to a satanic worshipping muslim.
FOLKS… Christ Jesus is Lord… and the catholic fake church is satanic.
Oh, so you are an expert in Christianity now.
Same old Sumsy Wumsy B.S. you spread each day. Any Christian who takes instruction from you is exposing him or herself to extreme satanic influence. Fortunately 99.99% don’t.
You are insane. See a doctor. You are getting worse.
The Nicene Creed does not refer to the Catholic Church as you know it. The catholic church is the body of the church which are it’s people. That is what our pastors tell us. I am a Lutheran and proud of it. WTF are you?
Do the satanic ELCA fake church, the satanic catholic fake church, the satanic shuffle — cha cha cha.
Must really bug you, huh.
If you think you are going to actually bring down the oldest church in Christendom all over the world, all by your little lonesome, on a low traffic site like this, you are delusional. But hey good luck.
Do the satanic ELCA fake church, the satanic catholic fake church, the satanic shuffle — cha cha cha.
After all it’s the only site that won’t ban you.
OK, Que the self indulgent belittling from Sumsrent the insult dog in 5…4…3…2… How’s your low self esteem quotient today, dirtbag.
Your “Pastor” is a false teacher… and…
Evidently you’re unaware of what you’ve been saying…
The Nicene Creed says… “I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.”
Look it up… You’ve clearly stated that your satanic ELCA fake church recites the Nicene Creed…
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And… the satanic catholic fake church is NOT the “oldest church”…
Otherwise… tell me which of the 7 churches mentioned in the Book of Revelation is the satanic catholic fake church…
And… if you knew history… the satanic catholic fake church wasn’t created until 300+ years after the crucifixion…
Your turn…
First off, stop pretending to be a pastor or a teacher. You are neither.. And your ideas basically have zero relevance in my life.
By the way I found your precious Bema Bop-a-Looma seat. Guess where it is. It’s in your bathroom. Your toilet seat. The MFG Co. is the Bema Matic. It’s motto is flush your sins away along with that daily deuce.
And you thought it was something special didn’t you.
Intrepid…
If you believe the satanic catholic fake church is the oldest church…
Then… which of the 7 churches mentioned in the Book of Revelation is the satanic catholic fake church?
You haven’t answered that yet…
Also… you might want to get with your false teaching Pastor and ask him what the Bema Seat actually is… and learn something before you continually make yourself look like a fool blaspheming the Holy Bible…
Yes… not only do I teach you… I rebuke you…
Maybe he’ll hang himself.
It seems to me like the Pope and his Cried of the Earth he is going totally Pagan and worshipping False Gods
and the first false “god” he worships is his exalted self. His position is describd as “the vicar of Shris”. Vicar means placeholder, in other words, he HS the CHrist in earh here and now.
Well that ain’t what MY bible says. MINE says Jesus is LORD. That means above and over everything and everyone. Even satan, who is, after all, God’s devil. His servant.
If Jesus truly is Lord over all, then this pope and any other poohbahs grandes are also UNDER HIS FEET right along with everything else except Jesus.
The root issue with the RC Church since it was firs founded as a poitical organisation back in about AD300 or so is that they do NOT uphold God’s written Word as the final Word on everything.
No one likes this papal bull ~
Is a bear Catholic? Does the Pope sh_t in the woods?
God punished ancient Israel by giving them evil rulers, but he never broke his covenant. The same thing is happening here. There will survive, as with Israel, a faithful remnant.
Agree. I live in a village where the nearest town has an RC Cathedral, which I pass when I take the bus into town to shop. On one occasion, I prayed “Lord, be with them” as I passed the Cathedral, and the Lord said to me “What’s the “them”? They are still part of my Bride, even though in error.”
Recalling that God can even command a donkey (or a globalist?) to speak at His will (Numbers, chapter 22), the preposterous Pope Francis may not be an apostate. Maybe the jackass in Rome is on a divine mission to the “woke.”
As a Jew, I neither understand Christianity nor have any interest in it. In addition, I relate to this article the same way I related to various articles by someone named Chananya Weissman that appeared here a while ago that discussed certain specifics of Jewish religious authority and belief. I responded that discussions of details of any religion, even my own, do not belong on FrontPage, a forum for general conservative thinking.
Nonetheless, I do question the assertion by Mr. Hippolito that the UN and its partners in civilizational destruction such as the WEF desire that people should “adore a general God”. I think that they reject the entire concept of God for pure atheistic materialism.
First, Malachi Martin made that assertion, not the author. Second, please re-read these paragraphs:
“As FrontPage Magazine reported, Francis endorses the United Nations’ Agenda 2030, which reflects the Vatican’s embrace of globalist, materialist utopianism that began at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). As FrontPage also reported, Francis’ papacy prioritizes environmental sustainability, economic redistribution, unlimited immigration and gender ideology over the church’s historic teachings against abortion and homosexuality.
“But Francis is no outlier. Not only does he represent the logical consequence of the Vatican’s support for what Pope Benedict XVI called “a true world political authority … with teeth…to manage the global economy.” Francis also embodies Catholic leadership’s disregard for the fundamentals of their own faith.”
The fact that the leader of nearly one billion Catholics is exchanging the fundamentals of his (and their) faith for the UN’s political agenda *is* a major issue, just like Islamist terrorism’s political agenda.
Thank you for pointing out my mistake about the source of the quote.
Of course, I do not deny the fact that the subverting of religion on a huge global scale is a “major issue”. I only questioned the details of what they want to replace it with.
The Temple was destroyed… and Judaism doesn’t have any way to perform sacrifices for their remission of sins…
Christ Jesus became that ultimate Lamb… sacrifice…
And the Temple Mount belongs to satanic islam…
Proving more… that Judaism doesn’t need to perform sacrifices… and instead call upon Christ Jesus as their Savior…
Yeah, don’t think that’s going to happen there, Whinesy.
Welcome to our local Jew hater.
Wrong Intrepid… it will happen…
After the Tribulation…
Mt 24:29-31… Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the TRIBES of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Make note: All the Tribes mourn… that includes the Jewish.
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May I suggest… you keeping your mouth shut Intrepid and learning a few things
Learn something from you? What have you possibly got to teach me. A crackpot Christian spouting a nut case End Times grift. Yeah I’m all in with that scam.
The Jewish? I think the term is Jews. What you know of Jews an Judaism couldn’t fill a Bema-matic. But how could you know? You are a moron.
May I suggest….talking to a few priests and pastors, and a few rabbis and let them set you straight……on a few things
Someone said: ’tis best to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it up and remove all doubt. Too late for you I guess……fool
You got the text wrong, derp.
Intrepid… you are welcome to correct me where I’m wrong… anytime…
But… you never do…
You are also welcome to give me your specific fake church name and where it’s located and I’ll gladly e-mail your false Pastor…
“I think that they reject the entire concept of God for pure atheistic materialism.”
Like all good Marxists.
Do you believe in the God of Abraham? So do I. But I’m Catholic. So we have our differences. I speculate that you and the author can both be right, because to adore a general god is not to adore God at all, but simply to allow a useful idol that fills a need a psychological need. I think we are well along that path already.
If you are a catholic… YOU do not believe in the One True God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob… the Father of our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus…
All catholic’s worship the fake god allah of satanic islam… as per CCC #841
Therefore… the fake god allah is not the same God of Abraham.
Also… considering the fake god allah has no sons… the satanic catholic fake church doesn’t believe Jesus is the Son of God.
You can’t worship allah and accept Jesus as the son of God at the same time.
Revelation 18:4-8 NASBS
[4] I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; [5] for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. [6] Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. [7] To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I SIT as A QUEEN AND I AM NOT A WIDOW, and will never see mourning.’ [8] For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong.
I am always glad to see the terrible condition of Catholicism discussed, and many of the relevant critics and issues named. I think the question should be, not is the pope Catholic, but is, or has Bergoglio ever been, the pope? My answer is no, based, for example, on the analysis of Dr. Edmund Mazza. But it shouldn’t take a scholar to recoil at this antipope’s obvious heresies.
This is not new. There is a story in the Decameron about a Frenchman with a Jewish friend who travels to Rome to investigate Christianity (to the despair of his Christian friend.) The Jew returns declaring that only the grace of God could have preserved the Church against the rampant corruption he witnessed in Rome.
Not everyone who says “Lord, Lord” will be saved on the day of Judgement. Members who sincerely believe in Jesus should abandon the Catholic Church forever. It is no longer a Christian Church. The same is true for certain Protestant congregations and the Russian Orthodox which is openly supporting the genocide of Ukraine. Christians have an obligation to withdraw any support from any so-called Church which has abandoned the clear and unambiguous Gospel of Christ. We have a duty to fight the good fight, to oppose evil in all its various deceptive forms.
Whatever happened to turn the other cheek?
Writing as a Orthodox Christian, I would observe that we Orthodox have a standard procedure for dealing with apostate bishops and partriarchs: we ignore them (and don’t attend parishes under their omophorion, cf. the aftermath of the False Union Council of Florence/Ferrar) until the go away. The Latin West, having had a good run early on — the first heretical Pope of Rome was Honorius in the mid-7th century, who was condemned for monergianism by the Sixth Ecumenical Council, and who was included in the list of those whose views were anathematized by all the bishops and patriarchs of the Church from then until the Latins set up on their own in the 11th century, when they (but not we) dropped the condemnation and started believing the heretical doctrine eventually formalized as Papal Infallibility — never got the hang of it. Worse they burdened themselves by making everyone in their communion fall under the omophorion of the Pope of Rome, so there isn’t any way to avoid being in communion with an heretical Pope.
This article is full of half truths and some outright lies. For instance, it accuses the Pope of prioritizing gender ideology when it wasn’t long ago that the pope affirmed the existence of only two genders
Antipope Bergoglio is adept at sowing confusion. He says vaguely Catholic things from time to time, while doing the opposite. Hence his many public embraces of “transsexuals”.
“…a sizable minority of cardinals, bishops, priests, and religious (nuns) are in apostasy,” Martin said. “They no longer profess the basic truths of Christianity – forget Catholicism.”
Catholicism vainly hijacked God’s program with Israel. Acts 2 denominations, ignorantly, hijacked God’s program with Israel. God’s program with Israel has been in abeyance since Acts 9. God began something new and unprophesied upon the conversion of Saul. The apostle Paul is God’s spokesman, God’s authority, today in this dispensation. Peter, the first so-called pope, was not a pope. He was an apostle for Israel. Peter and the gospel of the Circumcision diminished and gave way to Paul’s gospel. They’re different gospel’s. The suspension of God’s program with Israel is temporary (Rom. 11:25-27). When Peter is resurrected, he will judge his particular Jewish tribe from Jerusalem, not Rome.
This post motivates me to repeat my earlier statement (with a slight addition):
“As a (very knowledgeable) Jew, I neither understand Christianity nor have any interest in it.”
fsy… what you’re witnessing is the quackery of the ‘Paul is Savior’ doctrines of the devil cult…
Of course… it’s not much different than the quackery of the Talmud followers…
You should have an interest in Christianity for several reasons. However, let me begin with the gospels. You should try to at least take an interest there. Why? Because it’s Old Testament ground, before Christianity. Don’t let the blank page between the “testaments” fool you. The blank page represents the 400 years of the silence of God toward Israel prophesied by Amos. And in the gospels, the O.T. ground, Israel was following the law. I’m sure you at least know, or heard, that the Lord Jesus Christ told some Jews to do whatsoever Moses commanded.
So, for now, just forget the book of Acts and on. If you are a Jew and are all about the O.T. then you should give the gospels some attention because the gospels are O.T. ground, which is your territory, correct? Another reason you ought to give the gospels a re-look, besides the fact were not talking Christianity there because it’s not there, is the critical importance of Leviticus chapter 26. In Leviticus 26, God through Moses lays out the five courses of chastisement for Israel, if and when they drifted from God. They did. The fifth and final course began at the Babylonian captivity hundreds and hundreds of years before the gospels!
I hope you grasp what that means. The gospels were not the beginning of anything. Israel was already well into the 5th course of chastisement of Leviticus 26. The gospels are the last days before the “day of the Lord” and “the time of Jacob’s trouble,” (Jeremiah 30:7). John the Baptist asked Israel’s leaders, “Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”
So, ok, for now, don’t look at “Christianity.” It’s not in the gospels anyway, contrary to popular teaching, and perhaps that’s why you avoid it, I don’t know. But I hope you’ll take another look at the critically important Leviticus chapter 26. And, the gospels. I repeat, they’re on Old Testament ground and the circumcision and uncircumcision are still separated there. The Old Testament are your books, right? Well, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are for you.
Ironic that I read this column (a little late) just two days after Francis publicly declared that Christ is not the only way to salvation. Apostate indeed. And he certainly doesn’t bother to read the Bible.