Pope Francis meets with Father James Martin in private audience

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Your thoughts and words are not my thoughts and words. Please stop being vindictive of my entirety here. While you continue to press into me…
I am not required to answer you. This bothers you. I can’t help you in any other way other than prayer.
 
Weren’t these words Jesus used in the Gospel of Matthew to address the scribes and Pharisees?
 
Donkey said:
Blind guides

Fools

You are like whited supluhres full of dead men’s bones and all dirty

Serpents

Vipers

Hypocrites

I’m not trying to defend Voris but just saying that perhaps there is a little virtue in name calling.

When the seat is dirtied and sitting down is not an option….generally it is best to clean it up first if possible. The time is short now and some folks are in a hurry and refuse sit on it. Nor will they be repressed.

Voris is doing it the only way he knows.
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Matthew 7:1-5 is what gives holy people pause to be prudent in judging others.

“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.
 
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I can’t help you in any other way other than prayer.
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Scripture gives good direction in being a fruitful in bringing others to Christ.

2 Pet 1 . 4 Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature. 5 For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, 7 and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love. 8 For if these things are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Unless we’ve put serious effort into being godly, we are just ineffective and unfruitful.
 
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There’s no benefit in calling people names.
 
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I think it’s bothersome that Pope Francis will give 30 minutes to James Martin & yet wouldn’t meet with any of the four Cardinals who sent the Dubia.
 
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