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The twelve-year reign of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, as the head of the Roman Catholic Church began shortly after the strange and still-unexplained resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, and seven weeks into the second term of Barack Obama as president of the United States. It was fitting that Obama was president during the first four years of Francis’ papacy, as Francis was the Barack Obama of popes: just as Obama did as president of the United States, Pope Francis worked to weaken, instead of strengthen, the institution he was leading, and to provide aid and comfort to its enemies, while confusing and maddening its ardent supporters.
Pope Francis was the first pope, at least in modern times, to put the answer to the old question, “Is the Pope Catholic?,” in doubt. Argentine President Javier Milei didn’t think Francis was much of a Catholic, deriding him as a “Communist” and even saying that he was “the representative of the evil one on earth.” Francis sowed so much confusion about Catholic doctrine that in 2022, Cardinals Walter Brandmüller and Raymond Leo Burke, along with the support of three other Cardinals, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Robert Sarah, and Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, asked him a series of public questions about where he stood.
The pope replied the following year, clarifying his position on these issues and trying to dispel the impression that he had departed from the actual teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. Vatican News identified these issues as “the interpretation of Divine Revelation, the blessing of same-sex unions, synodality as a constitutive dimension of the Church, the priestly ordination of women, and repentance as a necessary condition for sacramental absolution.”
However, the issues at hand were not the most arresting aspect of this entire controversy. The pope’s answers weren’t even the most important aspect of this affair. What was most important about it was the fact that it had happened at all, that it had been necessary to question the guardian and anchor of the Roman Catholic faith over his own adherence to that faith. There was no parallel to this in modern times, and it exemplified how much Francis, in the minds of many both inside and outside the Church, had departed from the Roman Catholic faith.
Francis even cast aside the Roman Catholic Church’s traditional definition of itself as the Church that Christ founded. The Catholic Herald reported in Sept. 2024 that he had declared that “all religions are a path to God.” He explained: “They are like different languages in order to arrive at God, but God is God for all. Since God is God for all, then we are all children of God. If you start to fight, ‘my religion is more important than yours, mine is true and yours isn’t’, where will that lead us? There’s only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are [Sikh], Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths [to God].”
In this, Francis seemed to be contradicting both Jesus’ statement: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me” (John 14:6). He also seemed to be contradicting the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church’s Second Vatican Council, which emphasized that it was “the burden of the Church’s preaching to proclaim the cross of Christ as the sign of God’s all-embracing love and as the fountain from which every grace flows.” (Nostra Aetate 2, 4) The Catholic Herald noted, apparently by way of explanation, that in making these remarks, the pope had set aside his prepared remarks and was speaking extemporaneously.
Predictably, Francis was a doctrinaire leftist on political issues. He seemed to think that it was incumbent upon the people of Europe and North America to relinquish their national character and culture voluntarily, and become minorities in their own countries. In 2016, he declared that someone who built a border wall was “not a Christian.” In Feb. 2025, he sent a letter to the U.S. bishops, excoriating Trump for securing America’s southern border. He repeatedly insisted that welcoming any and all migrants was a Christian duty, and rejected “any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.”
Like many other leftists, the pope was also a dutiful shill for the warriors of jihad. He worked hard to build bridges with the international Islamic community, downplaying jihad terrorism, ignoring the rampant Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East and Africa, and even obliquely justifying the 2015 murders of cartoonists of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo who had lampooned the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Francis said that “it is true that you must not react violently, but” — ah, yes, there is always a “but” at such moments — “although we are good friends, if [an aide] says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch, it’s normal. You can’t make a toy out of the religions of others. These people provoke and then (something can happen). In freedom of expression, there are limits.” This was, in essence, a submission to Islam’s blasphemy laws which would, if followed, mean the end of free societies.
What will the Roman Catholic Church do now? If it continues to follow in the way of Pope Francis, it will destroy itself. Will it pull itself back from the brink? We shall see.
The real question is whether or not the Catholic Church today is at all relevant to Christianity, with its insistence on adding works to grace and its exaltation of Mary to the point of deity.
Hello Dennis and all. Speaking as an ex (and elderly) Catholic convent schoolgirl, isn’t the central doctrine of Christendom in all its wings, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, the Trinity?
Is that a Bible teaching – or does it actually contradict what the Inspired Scriptures tell us about our Creator?
The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.
And by making Jesus the equal of his Father – an equality he himself specifically denied – didn’t that open the way for the worship of Mary, as “the mother of God”?
While I disliked school very much, I do remain grateful for some aspects of my convent years, but I wish that they had taught me what the Bible actually says. It took me many years to find out – and it was such a relief when I did. Now, of course, I want to tell everyone.
The Christians persecuted, killed, imprisoned, tortured, and went to war with each other for centuries over the details of their dogma.
Thank God, so to speak, nobody takes Christianity that seriously anymore.
Hello again THX – So what has the fruitage of Chiristendom been? Good, or bad? It’s teachings are not based on Christianity. Instead they often contradict them. For one thing, haven’t followers of Christ – famously – laid down their swords?
But Christianity is alive and well. Millions of us worldwide – from “every tribe and nation and tongue” – are already being taught how to live in peace as the brothers and sisters we truly are.
No they didn’t and yes they do.
There are over 4 billion Christians in the world and we aren’t killing each other.
Nobody takes atheists seriously.
I also don’t see Christians strapping bombs to their bodies and blowing up buses, markets, restaurants, and even weddings… and yet.. that is The Religion of Peace.
I also don’t see Christians killing for their God and then being rewarded with 72 Virgins in Heaven.
I DO SEE Christians being slaughtered by The Religion of Peace while the leader of the Christians said nothing!
NOW let’s have you take and blanket statement on Islam, #1138. I’m sure it’ll be most enlightening. And while you’re at it, we ask that you name the myriad hospitals and benevolent organizations that have been built around the world under Islamic auspices.
Benevolent?……………
We both know they’re terrorist factories. Just clarifying.
Al Qaeda began as an Islamic charity (Mektabal Khidemat), and was funded by another string of charities/shells/jihad front groups, later designated as foreign terrorists entities. One was even called Benevolence International! Hamas was funded similarly (see the Holy Land Foundation). P.S. the number of Muslim doctors involved in jihad is remarkable. Why do you think that is? We can all live without your benevolence (literally).
Thank God so to speak, nobody takes you seriously………..at all.
Perhaps you haven’t noticed all of the Muslims slaughtering Christians by the hundreds each month in Africa. But do you say anything about that? Obviously no. You just keep repeating your worn out God Hatred and Christ hatred, and then you sit back and say, wow I’ve really accomplished something today.
I guess you are too chickenshit to actually say something against Islam because it may get a little too real for you. Hypocrite.
Way to rack up those downvotes you useless P.O.S.
“……nobody takes Christianity that seriously anymore.” Another sweeping statement from our desperate atheist sage. How do you know? I see many articles about how Gen Z is returning to the faith.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/04/20/easter-church-christian-gen-z-men/83138618007/
That’s a mainstream source. Not a conservative site. Sucks to be you.
Your pathetic attempts to denigrate all aspects Christianity are consistently simpleminded. You shoehorn Christianity’s true history into some version that is convenient for a lazy cheap one liner.
It always smacks of arrogance, vanity, smugness and an attitude that “pretends” to superiority, so typical of your narcissism. After all you are just too sophisticated and “reasoned” to believe fairy tales. Meanwhile I am trying to figure out how Rand’s simpleminded failed philosophy is not, in itself, a fairy tale.
As Kirk said to Khan: “I’m laughing at the superior intellect!”
“…by making Jesus the equal of his Father – an equality he himself specifically denied…” What, Sue?
John 10:30,33 “I and my Father are one.”
“The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.”
The Jews understood what the Lord said.
“The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established…prior to the end of the 4th century.”
That quote from the TNCE is nonsense.
Matthew 3:17 “And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
In the presence of the people, there in Matthew 3, the people witness 2 person’s of the Godhead, the Father and the Son. Then in other verses the Lord makes mention of the 3rd person of the God, such as Matthew 12:31.
Tell everyone about the Bible, Sue, but make sure it’s according to the word rightly divided. It’s a critical issue:
2 Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
And if you don’t have a KJB, I urge you to get one. Most of the other versions with the exception of the New King James version, which I don’t recommend, and perhaps one or two other versions, do not have “rightly dividing” in 2 Tim 2:15. They replace those words with unhelpful verbiage such as “correctly handle.”
The Trinity is God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit
John 14:15
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”
John 14:16
“And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—“
John 14:26
“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.“
John 15:26
“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.“
John 16:7
“Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.“
Acts 11:16
“Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’“
“[B]y making Jesus the equal of his Father – an equality he himself specifically denied – didn’t that open the way for the worship of Mary, as “the mother of God”?
Did Jesus openly deny equating himself with the Father or is that a misrepresentation of His words and actions, plausibly discerned through his humility? I think the latter. Jesus knew and knows what’s what. Here’s why:
The Word incarnate – simultaneously divine and human – Jesus was sent on a mission from God (very different from Jake and Elwood Blues’ mission but theirs was cut from the same cloth). By doing so, Jesus is God taking on our humanity in order to suffer for our sins so that not only can our sins be forgiven, but also, more pointedly I think to your point, — to assure us that our Creator knows and understands – through actual lived experience on this earth in form and substance as a human being without losing his divine essence – what human suffering is – the, or a, purpose of which is show us that God knows what it’s like to be human – which would have been, and likely was, subject to much logical skepticism had God not been born into His earthly existence and taken our humanity. This is why Jesus calls us his brothers and sisters. By the Father’s will and by the power of the Holy Spirit and by the Son’s earthy existence and His willful fulfillment of the divine obligation to shepherd Humanity back from its willful defiance of the Creator’s Word by and through unthinkable and unjust and unwarranted persecution and suffering by and at the hands of human beings, the three person’s in one God, the Holy Trinity, acted in concert to restore humanity to God’s Love in a way that we can see and understand as a matter of human historical factual record accounts and ways that we can only begin to fathom mentally and spiritually but through which exists hope for eternal and pure re- and co- union with the ever-loving Creator.
I do not think the New Testament or Catholic doctrine is at odds w/ my admittedly lay understanding of the same outlined above – which, perhaps very poorly, tries to explain that Jesus certainly understood he was one of the three persons in the one and only God – otherwise known as the Holy Trinity and did not openly deny equating himself with the Father, but more likely such a notion is a product of a misunderstanding of His words and actions, plausibly discerned through his humility.
No, the Trinity is biblical. Jesus identifies himself by the name of God when He says “before Abraham was, I AM”, and there’s a passage in Isaiah where God says that God has sent Him and His Spirit. And there’s a lot more, too.
This article brings a bunch of the passages together:
https://www.gotquestions.org/Trinity-Bible.html
That’s a silly description. Mary is not God.
The real question is whether today’s diluted, weakened, watery, Cafeteria Christianity is at all relevant to real Christianity. It isn’t. Joel Osteen’s and President Trump’s lavish lifestyles are not serious Christianity neither is the Pope’s lavish lifestyle either.
And thank God, so to speak, the vast majority of today’s Christians are Cafeteria Christians, much more interested in the pursuit of happiness on earth than an afterlife in Heaven, and not serious Christians like the Amish otherwise there would be no America or western civilization to speak of.
What have the Amish or the Hasidim contributed to the modern world? Nothing. Why would these practitioners of serious religion be focused on this world when there’s a better world to prepare for when they’re dead.
“Unlike many Americans today, who drive to church in their Cadillac or tape their favorite reverend on the VCR so as not to interrupt their tennis practice, the medievals took religion seriously. They proceeded to create a society that was anti-materialistic and anti-intellectual. I do not have to remind you of the lives of the saints, who were the heroes of the period, including the men who ate only sheep’s gall and ashes, quenched their thirst with laundry water, and slept with a rock for their pillow. These were men resolutely defying nature, the body, sex, pleasure, all the snares of this life — and they were canonized for it, as, by the essence of religion, they should have been. The economic and social results of this kind of value code were inevitable; mass stagnation and abject poverty, ignorance and mass illiteracy, waves of insanity that swept whole towns, a life expectancy in the teens. “Woe unto ye who laugh now,” the Sermon on the Mount had said. Well, they were pretty safe on this count. They had precious little to laugh about.” – Leonard Peikoff
Let’s see…
So the satanic catholic fake church canonizes dead people as Saints? And parades these dead people around in glass coffins… so all the Clic’s can venerate and worship them…
Let’s see…
So, if I ask you to pray for me, that means I’m WORSHIPPING you? I guess I must have worshipped quite a lot of people in my old Baptist church before becoming Catholic.
If you believe parading glass coffins around with dead people in them is the act of asking someone to pray for them… you need help…
If you pray to Mary or any dead person asking them to pray for you… you might as well believe the Poop is christ on earth… aye?
Do tell me… where does Christ Jesus come into this picture?
What I’ve learned… the satanic catholic fake church doesn’t need Jesus…
They have…
1) Dead saints to pray to
2) Indulgences to wipe away their sins
3) The Poop as the vicar of chirst
The only thing the satanic catholic fake church needs Jesus for is cannibalism… disguised as the satanic Eucharist…
Oops… I forgot…
The satanic catholic fake church also has… The Purgatory Judgement Throne…
Where C’lics can see is they’ve performed enough good deeds on earth… otherwise… off to Purgatory for a prison sentence…
Where… living loved ones can perform Good Deeds to shorten their dead loved ones sentences…
How nifty… aye? <<< Can you say… satanic?
When Constantine the Great ruled Rome, he made Roman Catholicism the State religion. Some aspects of the ancient Mithraic religion of the Sun God were incorporated into Catholic church doctrine. The veneration of Mary is related to the worship of Semarimus, the ancient Persian Moon Goddess.
Also, no one knows exactly when Jesus was born, as the Church appointed December 25, the same day that Tammuz, the son of Queen Semarimus, was born. Tammuz was worship ped as the Sun God.
Constantine, the first Pope, compromised the Christian faith as a political solution. Some Roman citizens did not want to part with certain aspects of their faith, so Constantine allowed the doctrine to reflect what his citizens believed, sort of a watered down combination of the two belief systems.
That’s politics for you 😉
“Joel Osteen’s…are not serious Christianity…”
True. Nor is O’Steen’s doctrine correct. The majority of Christendom is a confused.mess. They refuse to see and understand there are two programs in the Bible. Gods program with Israel and Gods program with the church the body of Christ. Not many in Christendom note the distinctions between the two. Instead, Christendom confuses.one with the other, or think they’ve become Israel.
However, the truth about what is going on in the Bible and what it actually teaches is out there. If you’re interested, look up Keith Blades.of Enjoy the Bible. Look up the book, “The Silence of God,” by Sir Robert Anderson. “Things That Differ,” by C. R. Stam.. There are other very good sources.
I’m a Protestant, but have many Catholic friends. I never, ever get into doctrinal arguments with them. They are Christians too, and we agree on the most important aspects of the Christian faith.
catholics are not Christians…
They worship the fake god allah of satanic islam… a fake god who has no sons for Salvation… according to their satanic quran…
Wow. You are one miserable, lying human being.
Actually… a Christian is someone who believes Christ Jesus is the Son of God… who has died for their sins… and accepted Him as their Savior…
The satanic quran specifically says allah has no sons… and the satanic catechism says catholics worship the fake god allah…
So how can a catholic worship allah and accept Christ Jesus? Especially when satanic catholicism has the Poop acting as if he’s Jesus?
Are you able to think any?
Cheers! To you learning some things…
They don’t worship Allah. Have you ever been to a Cathedral? Who is the guy hanging on the cross? It’s not Allah or Mohammed.
Not sure if you will see this—
Constantine the Great converted to Christianity and assembled the First Council of Nicea. He credited Christianity for his major victory in battle over his rival. From that point onward the Latin Vulgate was written. That’s the original source for the Christian Bible.
Matia…
YES!!!
The satanic catechism teaches catholics worship the fake god allah of satanic islam… CCC#841
Confessed at the 2nd vatican council…
Maybe YOU don’t know it… maybe millions of other C’lics don’t realize it… but it’s a fact.
Dog, meet Pavlov. You are as predictable and repetitive as a sunrise but not even close to it’s significance. Sunrise means a new day….another chance to fix your mistakes.
You are too stupid to realize that.
What has objectivism contributed to the world except whiney little nerds Lenny Piehole and of course you.
You are a loser. You will always be a loser. Like every other Objectivist.
Wrong! I’m not an Objectivist”… I stand with the Holy Word of God and against the satanic catholic fake church as well as your homosexual approved, satanic ELCA fake church which also worships the fake god allah…
Try again…
You are so stupid and self absorbed you don’t even realize the post was meant for the other narcissist idiot on this site. I have no control where it ends up in the comment stack
Yeah I know you aren’t an Objectivist. They wouldn’t have you anyway. Besides a being total fraud and probably autistic, frankly, I don’t know what you are.
You have your usual overused satanist shtick, your overused Catholicism shtick, your overused poop shtick, your overused silly personal attacks like the “homosexual approved, satanic ELCA fake church” which you dreamed up in the bowels of your own personal hell. It’s clear you know nothing of actual Christianity so you have some bizarre overused Paul shtick. I don’t know how you get through the day.
In a word, your tired act is boring and pathetic. Eyes Open had you nailed: “Wow. You are one miserable, lying human being.”
Now I have spent too much time indulging you today, and said I would ignore you until Christmas. So fuck off twerp.
Other “narcissist”? Other than yourself? <<< Hahahaha
Can you spare the room for another?
Yes… we see you have a fetish for shtick's… it goes with your homosexual fake church…
Nothing I say is a lie. <<< Period! <<< Exclamation point…
Mary is an intercessor, not a deity.
Catholicism is Christianity. Jesus gave the church to Peter.
Mathew 16.18
Catholicism means Universal.
Wrong…
Peter was not the first Poop… Christ Jesus was talking to all the Apostles at the time… not just Peter…
Additionally… the gates of hell has prevailed against the satanic catholic fake church… it is satanic…
“Universal” means… giving way and accepting to everything satanic…
Pope Francis sowed disorder in the Church. Supported Marxist ideology and anti-humanist climate change hysteria. He betrayed Catholics in China and refused to condemn Christian persecution by Islam. He shrugged about sexual abuse in the Church. Castigated and mocked traditional Catholics. I hope this new Conclave chooses wisely but I don’t hold my breath. Francis appointed a number of Cardinals who I fear will continue the disorder he sowed.
precisely why he appointed them.
The Vatican is full of Satanists and Demon Worshippers
I think Pope John Paul II was a great pope. There are many good and true Catholics that love and serve God faithfully.
Pope Francis was a false prophet; that’s my opinion.
I wonder what Mr. Spencer, learned as he is, thinks of the arguments that Benedict’s attempted partial resignation was invalid, that he thus remained pope until he died. That the Chair has been vacant since he died and Bergoglio was never for a moment the pope, just a common criminal, a thief, a usurper. That’s how I see it.
This pope and all the one’s before him were not the Lord Jesus Christ’s representative. These popes did not apostolically descend from Peter. Peter was an apostle of Israel and when he’s resurrected Peter will be the judge of his particular Jewish tribe.
God’s spokesman and authority in this dispensation of the grace of God is the apostle Paul; his epistle’s Romans through Philemon are the Christian’s personal mail. Those epistle’s concern the church the body of Christ. Genesis ch. 12 all the way to Acts 9 concerns God’s program with Israel. Hebrews through Revelation concerns the resumption of Israel’s program.
All of the Bible is for the believer today to read, but not all of the Bible is written specifically to today’s believer or is it about them. One must rightly divide the word of truth.
Yes… we know… all of you that worship Paul as the Savior… and follow Paul’s doctrines of the devil made up by man… believe the Jews have been placed on the back burner by God…
Who worshiped “Paul as the Savior”?
Anyone who follows Dispensationalism and/or the Pauline Doctrines of the devil…
Those who believe all the “mysteries” were given to Paul the Savior… who had to tell Christ Jesus when the Per-Trib Rapture would occur…
They’re all quacks…
Whoever replaces him will be far far worse, the Collage of Cardinals is full of communists, socialists, anarchists, antisemites & satanists. They are the same people who gave sanctuary to Nazi war criminals. There won’t be a Catholic church one hundred years from nw.
This Phony Pope this Satan’s Pope and Imposter is in a lake of Blames with all the rest of those Imposters and they cant wait for all the rest of them
This Pope brought his marxist “Liberation Theology” with him into the Vatican and along with his fellow marxist cardinals’ cabal to the detriment of Catholicism. However this “progressive” trend in the Catholic church was started with the dropping of the Latin Mass to make it more “inclusive”..
The satanic catholic fake church teaches they worship the fake god allah of satanic islam…
What you may think is “Marxist”… is actually Islamofascism in the works…
Comparing Trump to King Herod was one of his biggest Lies
“Destroy” is WAY too strong a description. The Catholic Church has not been destroyed. Ask Jamie Glazov if he feels that it has been destroyed.
One should read the Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism by John Zmirak
That’s a GREAT book! Here’s some of my favorite Pope quotes from that book…
“No Catholic could subscribe even to moderate Socialism.”
-Pope John XXIII
“Whether considered as a doctrine, or an historical fact, or a movement, Socialism, if it remains truly Socialism… cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the catholic Church because it’s concept of society itself is utterly foreign to Christian truth.”
Pope Pius XI.
“The right to possess private property is derived from nature, not from man; and the State has the right to control its use in the interests of the public good alone, but by no means to absorb it altogether. the State would therefore be unjust and cruel if under the name of taxation it were to deprive the private owner of more than is fair.”
“Lured, in fine, by the greed of present goods, which is “the root of all evils which some coveting have erred from the faith,'(socialists) assail the right of property sanctioned by natural law; and by a scheme of horrible wickedness, while they seem desirous of all men, they strive to seize and hold in common whatever has been acquired either by title of lawful inheritance, or by labor of brain and hands, or by thrift in one’s mode of life… (the Church) knows that stealing and robbery were forbidden in so special a manner by God, the author and defender of right, that thieves and despoilers, no less than adulterers and idolaters, are shut out from the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Pope Leo XIII.
Let’s hope the new Pope sounds like these guys!
THE WICKED are running the World. Communists and Democrats have teamed up to follow Rev. Wright’s Black Liberation Theology taught to Obama, Michelle, and Oprah, who are now leading the Black Supremacist Movement, and this FAKE pOPE’s Liberation Theology with both preaching from The Gospel of Karl Marx! PICK A STRICT SERVANT and Messenger of God to rid the World of Evil which is gaining over Good.
POPE JOHN PAUL II, a real Pope who lived in Communist Poland and who was instrumental in the Downfall of Communism, (except Ours… who are the only hardcore Commies left), warned of the evil MARXISTS, and yet, the World turned on him, especially… AMERICA’S SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS! His Encyclical in the ’80s warned Central American Priests that the Marxists were attempting to take over the Church, using the death of Oscar Romero of El Salvador (The Saviour) to do it.
“WHY DID Godless Democrat Vampires, who always cringed at the Sight of a Crucifix, love this pOPE?”
STOP APPEASING MUSLIMS! This FAKE pOPE never defended the slaughter and deaths of Christians at the hands of Muslims! Instead, he invited them to the Vatican where he should have CONVERTED THEM to follow Jesus Christ and not a false prophet, and pedophile which was okay for his followers to practice too, To Muslims, even this FAKE pOPE was an infidel.
EL SALVADOR: Let’s recall that the ’80s Democrats were screaming “NO CONTRA AID” to protect Daniel Ortega, still ruling Nicaragua and who arrests all political opponents, (sound familiar?). Then still acting like PEACEMAKERS, they supported the CPUSA FRONTS which aided the Communist FMLN rebels. (I spoke to President Alfredo Cristiani on the Larry King talk show and informed him of CPUSA fronts, mainly CISPES, aiding the rebels in their Zonas de Controlidad. He then imposed a travel ban on all Americans entering those zones and surely kept track of them at all times.) NOW, THEY HATE BUKELE and they’re fighting for MS-13 TERRORISTS. Now Bukele’s clampdown has led to one of the safest countries in the world. The FMLN won the Presidency in 20o9 and Hillary was at their inauguration. The CPUSA reps were there too. Then a STRICT believer in the Rule of Law!
EL SALVADOR… THE SAVIOUR… should be a lesson on picking a NEW POPE… A STRICT MAN OF THE RULES OF GOD…………….. AND HATED BY DEMOCRATS!
I’m praying for another Pope John Paul II (and I’m not even Catholic!)
I agree with you. I’’m not Catholic either, so, likewise, will begin praying for someone like Pope John Paul II to fill that important position. Thanks for your comment!
Pope Francis only stated clearly the long heresy that started with Pope Paul IV in 1984 with the establishment of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in 1964. That was before my interest in religion, but I remember the outrage over John Paul II’s “Day of World Peace” in Assi in 1986 where 13 different religions were represented including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism and other less well-known non-Christian religions and several false Christian religions.
“Will it pull itself back from the brink?” For what purpose, since many consider the RCC to be a false religion itself because of its works-based, idol-worshipping, Scripture-denying belief system.
Dissolve the Catholic faith and everyone go back to being Jewish and start all over again
Don’t be a quitter. MAN UP!
yes, let the socio-political organisation commonly known as the Roman Caholic CHurch rot away to nothing. But don’t play the dog going back to his barf.
Go back and re-read the “speech” Peter gave from the deck of the “upper room” where all Jesus’ closest followers were hiding out after Jesus had died. A very strange thing has just happened, and Peter the first class coward went out onto the porch and began to speak to the gathered crowd. Read Peter’s words there, and continue reading through what happened in result of his words. A short time later a similar scene is recorded.
WHAT did Peter tell the listeners to DO? That is what WE need to do if we have not already done so.
Also note carefully: Before His death and resurrection Jesus went specifically to Peter to encourage him, He asked a question and Peter, up to that point called Simon, gave a very good answer.. “Who do YOU say that I am” (as contrasted with who others were saying He is) and Simon Peter answered correctly. Jesus then gave him a new name.. you are Peter (rock) and upon this rock I will build my church. What the catholics got wrong a number of years later was to twist Jesus’ words abd build a solio-poliltico-economic organisation on the false understanding that Jesus was going to build His church on the man Peter. But a careful rendering of Jesus’ words reveals that , after renaming Peter as a rock, Jesus then says I will build my church upon the “rock” of the faith you have just demonstrated in declaring that I (Jesus) am indeed the Son of God.
So the socio-political-economic monstrosity today referred to as the roman catholic church is built upon a man, Peter and his subsequent replacements (in their minds) and NOT upon the faith that Jesus IS the Christ (God’s Annointed one) and to do what He has told us to do) but upon the facade of a man-made organisation. the Boy Scouts get it far more right than the RCC do.
Before you pick up those rocks with which to stone me, .understand that I was born into and faithfully raised up as a devout Roman Catholic.. catholic schools kindergarten through 2nd year university, altar boy back when the “mass’ was in latin, one year seminary. But I began to realise it was all a bunch of rote things I had been trained to DO, like a well trained circus elephant That all changed the day my eyes were opened to SEE who Jesus is, and what He asks of me. Simple.
go and read how Saul/Paul ‘s life was radically changed whe HE met the Saviour. Observe how HE built the church. Radically different than how today;s “popes” live, sequestered in a massive )nt to mention very costly) palace, armed guards, fine food, ridiculous costumes, pomposity by the truckload. notoriety and fame… is THAT what Peter did? Or Paul? How about Timothy,? John, the revelator/evangelist? Or maybe the Roman army guy Cornelius?
Nah. The pope is dead. Leave him there.
Difficult to feel hopeful that the cardinals will not choose a social activist pope. Francis hand picked over 1/3 of the candidates to be considered. If so, the future of the CC looks bleak indeed.
Sad but true. Hopefully they stop tacking left.
Great article, Mr. Spencer. Thank you for the truthful assessment rather than the treacly accolades going on round the clock.
The Hamlet of the Catholic Church.
Religion is a bit like politics. There’s a variety of ideologies, and practices to choose from. And like politics, the faction you belong to is the true credo, the others being crackpot cults .
In the wake of John Paul II most any other Pope will look frivolous.
It is a great pity that Pope Francis did not follow in the footsteps of his namesake, Francis of Assisi, in reaching out to Saladin in order to bring him to Christ, rather than to fudge the very real differences between Christian teachings and those of Islam. As a Protestant, I am praying that his successor will be more faithful to God’s word than he was – although there are several matters over which I believe the RCC to be in error, it also has a history of being staunch on pro-life issues, which is a gift that it is still able to offer other churches.
My comment is too long, so I’m posting it in 2 parts:
Part 1
The entire Catholic Church along with the Vatican makes zero sense. Jesus’ message was he thought a supernatural event was imminent, that being God would save Judah from the Roman occupation. However, for a man selling a vision it was pretty open-ended. Jesus never really mentioned the process of the Kingdom of God, how it was to come about, how Judah would be restored back to the Judeans and most importantly, how Rome was going to be kicked out of Judah.
The bottom-line is Jesus’ prophetic message never came to fruition. After his death, the few Judeans outside of the hardcore followers that knew of Jesus’ message just moved on with their lives. The hardcore followers of Jesus just kept on revising the date of Judgement Day and eventually canonized their texts. Ironically, the Roman Empire made Jesus their God and demonized the Jews – how Bizarro World is that!
Christianity has taken a niche Judean cult that hinged its belief on the restoration of their nation via a supernatural event where their oppressors would be kicked out of the land. To where Christianity made this local Judean messenger the saviour to all mankind and his second coming that has never happened is blamed on the conditional acceptance of the Jews that continually reject Jesus and refuse to accept him as the Messiah.
Part 2
Christianity is an entrenched doomsday cult that sadly refuses to logically look at the times Jesus lived in and accept that his message was a false vision. Rather than move on with their lives, Christianity developed into a mainstream religion that still hopes for the Kingdom of God but now that means somehow restoring every single nation on Earth to some sort of glory, where evil people are done away with and the true believers are rewarded. Oh yes and all of this is at the expense of the Jews, who are still blamed for killing their God. Don’t forget, Jesus’ second coming is conditional (based on many conditions), one being the Jews accept Jesus as their lord and saviour.
It’s hard to believe adults behave this way, especially after 2 millennia. You’d think that mankind in this modern-day would finally accept that Jesus was just a product of his day. You’d think that after hoping and praying for doomsday to come and for Jesus to magically appear to save the day, mankind would finally reverse course, ending this insane belief. Unfortunately mankind at least a good portion of it, is incapable of change. Thus, the status quo continues which includes the hatred and demonizing of Jews. Gee whiz…if only Jesus would come back to solve all the problems of the world but you know – that’s just a fantasy.
Christianity is not an entrenched doomsday cult. That’s just SILLY!
Have you ever actually READ a decent translation of the bible? Your notes above reveal that if you have actually read it you certainly do not accurately remember what you read.
Yes, mere men have many times declared “WE KNOW when “the end” is coming (NO one knows the day nor the hour.. Jesus)
Jesus did indeed rise from the dead, lived and walked with His followers for some time, eating and travelling and such.
No single event in human history has had more impact on the world than Christ’s presence on Earth. Despite your doubt, for which we pity you and pray for your salvation, it is clear that empires have come and gone while Christ’s church has continued. The whole of western civilization is built not on Greco-Roman foundations but on Judeo-Christian ethics that value the individual, cooperate to have justice and civil society, and sustain the rights of families. All human institutions are flawed because we are imperfect, and it is not wrong to point out error in organized religions. But there is no error in Christs commandments to love God and to love one another, to gather in His name, to be baptized in faith for salvation from sin, and to take the Lord’s Supper to renew and strengthen our faith – all of which are documented in the New Testament. Unlike you and me, God’s word is timeless.
Main Luther figured it out 6 centuries ago.
I think Pope Francis taught false doctrine with his blessing for gay marriage. His teachings on this and other subjects directly contradict scripture.
It takes courage and strength to stand up to public pressure regarding the Christian faith. True Christianity is not politically correct. We sometimes have to take the heat of being shunned and persecuted, but we will someday be rewarded for being faithful to the Bible and sound teachings.
I’m remembering when President Trump was formerly in charge of the Miss USA beauty pageant. He took a lot of slack when he let it be known that he opposed gay marriage and supported the traditional, heterosexual couple marriage. Well, I agree with that thinking, but I do support Civil Unions for gay folks. They should have legal protections.
Any two competent adults can enter into a legally binding contract to mingle their estates and to give the other party power to act on their behalf. It doesn’t take a pretend marriage to accomplish this, nor any new “civil union” law.
In Genesis, Eve commits the original sin of doubting God’s word. She accepts the serpent’s lie. She lacked faith in God’s word. Compared to Bergoglio, Eve’s sin was – though no less damning – small potatoes. Bergoglio was a willing participant in flouting the plain text of the Bible, far beyond the usual Roman Catholic unjustified doctrine of priestly celibacy and the heresy of partial salvation and the elevation of Mary. His “all roads lead to God” balderdash and his condoning perversion would disqualify a parish priest. Yet he was installed as the prelate by a cabal or by ignorance and he repeatedly debased the role in which he was cast. One struggles to believe that, at his dying hour, he repented or that he had true faith and submission to his Lord.
Don’t believe a word of it, their doctrine and beliefs.
Its all about control, not faith.