I apologize for my oversight.Dude. .. I said reflection and change. See if you had reflected on what I wrote before you tried to assert your position you would not have missed that.
I apologize for my oversight.Dude. .. I said reflection and change. See if you had reflected on what I wrote before you tried to assert your position you would not have missed that.
I apologize for my oversight.
They are getting folks to joke about it now to try and normalize itThat's the point I'm trying to make: Forget about the religion aspect. If you strip that away, you're left with a massive organization that has a systemic problem with pedophilia (i can't think of too many things I would really consider 'evil', but pedophilia qualifies) Then consider that there's constantly new cases emerging, and now we know that the highest levels (including the current pope) of the organization had prior knowledge of this behaviour. That's called a cover-up, it's not complicated. If this were any other entity, a secular charity or a business for example, we would shut that shit down fast, it wouldn't matter who was running it. And it's irrelevant in this case as well, there's a problem that hasn't been dealt with (if you believe that only one or two generations of priests indulged in this behaviour, you're simply coming to illogical conclusions), and any leadership that comes from within that organization will not be sufficient to root it out. Hence, open it all up, let independent investigators see how long this has been going on for, and just how extensive it really is.
In my opinion it would be good if the whole Catholic Church dismantled. The theology is so far off.
Worship of Mary, and this belief that they need to do works or penance for forgiveness of sins. It's heretical teaching and leads people to believe they are saved by their own works. Not saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone.
The unbiblical requirement of celebacy has recruited priests with "other attractions" besides women that has led to the homosexual and pedo problem that's rampant in the church.
The Catholic church is the perfect example of how money and power can corrupt.
There is only one Church. It has the following characteristics-- all supported explicitly by scripture-- catholic, apostolic, perpetual.
"Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father Who is in Heaven. And I say to thee: Thou art Peter; and upon this Rock I will build My Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." (Matthew 16:16-18)
There is one church, one body of redeemed believers. However the Catholic Church has a very high percent of attendees who are not saved. It's the same with other churches as well.There is only one Church. It has the following characteristics-- all supported explicitly by scripture-- catholic, apostolic, perpetual.
"Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father Who is in Heaven. And I say to thee: Thou art Peter; and upon this Rock I will build My Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." (Matthew 16:16-18)
There is one church, one body of redeemed believers. However the Catholic Church has a very high percent of attendees who are not saved. It's the same with other churches as well.
There is one church, one body of redeemed believers. However the Catholic Church has a very high percent of attendees who are not saved. It's the same with other churches as well.
Not all religions are correct, but I believe one is.So many religions and they cannot all be right... but they can all be wrong
I'm not Holy, only God is. I'm a wretched sinner in need of God's grace and forgiveness.Thank you your holyness pope ripskater the first, for your elaborate theological exegesis. We are grateful that God himself has proclaimed you the infallible interpreter of scripture.
Not all religions are correct, but I believe one is.
Then follow his instructions.I'm not Holy, only God is. I'm a wretched sinner in need of God's grace and forgiveness.
Well, he is a mod's alt-troll account. So...Billions of other people believe theirs to be correct, but you're special.
Basically. The conservative wing of the Catholic Church loathes Pope Francis and is trying to pin a problem that is decades— probably centuries— old on him. Pure crap.
Pope Francis has been the most open Pope, by far. He has admitted the scale, depth, and scandal of the abuse, something no other Pope has even come close to doing.
The Church has failed miserably in not expelling these abusive priests much earlier,. but it is simply false, statistically, that Catholic priests are more likely to abuse children than any other group of men
The pope geezer knows how to reduce all the molestation, let priests marry once again.
Per NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/26/6420...-long-knew-about-abuse-calls-on-him-to-resign
I'm not saying Vigano is a bad priest or a bad man, but he is an ideological conservative who has had an axe to grind with Francis since the beginning of his papacy. This doesn't automatically make his accusations false, but it does make me take them with several grains of salt.
As far as the brazen insubordination of calling for the Pope's resignation rather than for the situation to be remedied-- only God can judge him, but priests have been excommunicated for less. As a Catholic-- lay or ordained-- you don't just get to call on the Pope to resign, even if you think he has made grave mistakes. That is promoting disobedience, fractiousness, non-orthodoxy, and, ultimately, schism.