Orthodox Priest Beheading and Recent White House Omission

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Do you suppose Pope Benedict knows something we don’t?

Pope Benedict XVI:
My dear friends - at this moment I can only say:
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pray for me, that I may learn to love the Lord more and more. Pray for me, that I may learn to love His flock more and more - in other words, you, the holy Church, each one of you and all of you together. Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.

From RNS: Religion News Service - Oct 13
Muslim extremists connected the Orthodox and Catholic faiths as they reportedly beheaded an Orthodox priest on Thursday, October 12 in Iraq because the Orthodox Church did not condemn Pope Benedict’s recent remarks about the Prophet Mohammad. Turkey’s extremist group, the Grey Wolves, has long focused on these two Christian faiths. One of their members, Mehmet Ali Agca, shot Pope John Paul II and, in recent years, they are suspected in bombings aimed at Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch will soon celebrate the feast day of St. Andrew together in Muslim Turkey.
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Full Article: religionnews.com/press02/PR101406A.html
 
He may be in a danger that we do not know of. Satan of course wants the Pope to come to harm, as the Pope represents what God has instituted. Satan will likely use Muslim extremists to harm the Pope.

Of course the Pope would not voice his danger to the entire world. He has the virtue of humility and he would never want to place himself on a pedastal. God bless the Pope. We must pray for the Holy Father.
 
Oops! Forgot to mention Pope Benedict quote was from his inaugural address!
 
bones_IV said:
Satan has hijacked the Islamic religion.
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Maybe he created it in the first place. Perhaps the voice MohaMAD heard was a demon or Satan himself.

Moahmmedan savages murdered countless Europeans throughout the Middle Ages, and that hasn’t changed. Now the Mohammedan locusts are trying to destroy America as well.
 
Remember Paul violently persecuted the Church before he became a Christian. Pray for their conversion.
 
RomanCrusader:
If Islam is our enemy, then we are commanded to love our enemies. ❤️
If they persecute Christians, then we are commanded to pray for those who persecute us.:gopray:
Thus it is written.:bible1:
 
The Pope is always in danger. He has been for 2000 years. But nothing will happen to him unless it is in God’s plan. If it does, we must learn to accept, forgive those who perpetrate the act and pray for them wishing them well.

I have only ever known three Moslems and they were all very devout. Very committed to love, peace and goodwill towards all men. To them, violence is anaethema.

Christendom also has its terrorists. I have heard well known evangelists condone indiscriminate killing and maiming of innocent men women and children in Lebanon and Gaza as ‘God’s work’…Holy War…Jihad. Heard that somewhere before!

Moslems are not our enemies.
 
Reepicheep said:
RomanCrusader:
If Islam is our enemy, then we are commanded to love our enemies. ❤️
If they persecute Christians, then we are commanded to pray for those who persecute us.:gopray:
Thus it is written.:bible1:
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It is not for us to judge Islam. It is not for us to judge anyone. We are commissioned by the Lord only to LOVE.

At the end of our lives, we will be judged by one standard: LOVE

St Augustine said ‘love and do what you will’.
 
After confession today, my Priest asked me to pray for the Pope, he seemed very pointed and deliberate in his request for me to pray for the Pope (more so then any other time). Then I read this account and it makes me wonder. The Priest I confess to is an Opus Dei Priest, very holy. I trust in the Lord and know He will only allow what is within His will, yet these converging events concerns me a bit.
 
Sixtus said:
The Pope is always in danger. He has been for 2000 years. But nothing will happen to him unless it is in God’s plan. If it does, we must learn to accept, forgive those who perpetrate the act and pray for them wishing them well.

I have only ever known three Moslems and they were all very devout. Very committed to love, peace and goodwill towards all men. To them, violence is anaethema.

Christendom also has its terrorists. I have heard well known evangelists condone indiscriminate killing and maiming of innocent men women and children in Lebanon and Gaza as ‘God’s work’…Holy War…Jihad. Heard that somewhere before!

Moslems are not our enemies.
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Christians are terrorists? That is a disgusting and profoundly insulting statement that comes straight from the mouths of the anti-Chrstian hate groups like the ACLU, CNN and the Democratic party. That is a sick and utterly indefensible statement.

You may not feel moslems are your enemy, but you are their enemy.
 
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rpp said:
Christians are terrorists? That is a disgusting and profoundly insulting statement that comes straight from the mouths of the anti-Chrstian hate groups like the ACLU, CNN and the Democratic party. That is a sick and utterly indefensible statement.

You may not feel moslems are your enemy, but you are their enemy.
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Perhaps you should read Sixtus’ post again and not twist it into something he did not say. He said some Christians are terrorists and anyone who reads the newspaper or watches TV news knows this is true.
 
I am not surprised by the lack of a response from Bush/The White House. This administration is run by people who have a secular world order agenda. If you read the conservative Chronicles magazine or check out the articles at their site you will be amazed and discouraged. That so many Christians, mainly evangelicals, have joined on board with this “new world order” movement is discouraging.

Bush’s Iraq policy is guaranteing the elimination of any Christian presence in that country. The tiny minority, remnant, is fleeing.

But right wing radio - the evening host here in the Bay Area - will often tell you it does not matter as the Iraqi Christians are so only by birth, not really Christian as they have not had born-again experieices. If any of you live in the Bay Area you know of whom I speak.
 
I screwed up… I should have posted the fact that Pope Benedicts quote was from his inaugural address.

I find it prophetic that he would say this and a year later he face’s a threat from an extremist group that calls themselves the Grey Wolves.
 
Sixtus said:
It is not for us to judge Islam. It is not for us to judge anyone.
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Right on the second, wrong on the first. If we felt ourselves unable to judge religions, we would be relativists. Jesus never instructed us not to judge anything at all. We don’t refuse to judge whether drinking antifreeze will kill us. We don’t refuse to judge whether smoking is bad for our health. We are told not to judge people in the sense that we cannot and ought not to judge whether a person is saved or damned. Thus, we cannot judge whether Hitler is in hell or not. But we can judge that an armed robber will likely kill us if he is resisted.

I could be wrong about this, but didn’t Augustine actually say “Love GOD and do what you will”? I don’t have to love Lyme Disease.
 
Anyone think the Pope praying for strength to stand up to the wolves during his inaugural address interesting in light of current events (and the “Grey Wolves” or should we discuss Islam some more?
 
We need to really pray hard for our dear Pope Benedict XVI:gopray:

His words break my heart.

May Our Heavenly Father guide him and give him the wisdom and courage to lead the flock in this very chaotic time.
 
Hello Tziggy,

Here is another article that, I think, clearly spells out the point you are making.

The twofold symbolic weight of the killing of sister Leonella

by Lucetta Scaraffia

The dramatic killing of sister Leonella Sgorbati in Somalia on Sunday, September 16 (2006), is, unfortunately, a symbolic action of great significance. This is so for two fundamental reasons. Because, in fact, even in the absence of precise assertions, this is a matter of blackmail. And because the one assassinated was a woman, and a religious woman.

As seen in the history of the Christian persecutions, this time as well the method was chosen of striking others in the place of the one who was indicated by so many voices in the Muslim world as the main target, namely Benedict XVI, and not only because the Italian religious sister was an easier victim The explanation is found in the memorable pages of the Japanese writer Shusaku Endo, which narrate the persecution of the Christians in Japan in the seventeenth century: some Jesuits, although they were ready to die to bear witness to their faith, were forced to commit apostasy by having the Christian country people subjected to torture before their eyes. A Christian can dispose of his own life, even to the point of martyrdom – and the countless Christian martyrs of the past century demonstrate this – but not of the lives of others: the killing and torture of other Christians paralyzes the real target of the aggressive action, it gags him, it prevents him from saying and doing what would be right for himself, until it impedes him from martyrdom. The Japanese case is the most sensational, but there have been other, similar cases, if one only reads attentively the lives of the missionaries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: it’s enough to recall the Combonian missionary sisters who were held prisoner by the Mahdi in the Sudan at the end of the nineteenth century.

quoted from: chiesa.espressonline.it/d…id=85302&eng=y
 
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