Pope sends "olive branch" to French Protestants

[msproule]

I do not think he physically handed them an olive branch. This is just the careful language used by the media to make us think about the Saint Malachy prophesy. It certainly worked on me!

 

[TPJCatholic]

This Pope appears to be interested in unifying all people, he seems to very much be a Pope of peace…which is where the olive branch comes in. If Pope Benedict XVI proves to be a pursuer of peace, then the Malachy prophecies were correct about his Pontificate. Time will tell.

 

[Franze]

We will see

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

preyoflove:

By the way, I’m planning to write an article about these papacies’ prophecies for our alma mater’s student paper and I’ve decided it’s title to be “We have no more popes?”. However, I want to put the Latin translation instead, so can someone translate this in Latin please?

Thank you already.

Peace, bring it on, baby!

Si Papam vultis - nec habebimus (= If you people want a Pope - we will not be having one)​

Will that fit the bill ? ##

 

[MisterMagister]

nos non iam papas habemus?

nos nihil paparum habemus?

 

[preyoflove]

msproule:

I do not think he physically handed them an olive branch. This is just the careful language used by the media to make us think about the Saint Malachy prophesy. It certainly worked on me!

Okey, so you’re implying that the media is deliberately, intentionally and consciously describing what Pope Benedict XVI does to associate him with “Gloria Olivae”? Wonder why they weren’t doing it a lot with the late “De Laboram Solis”?

Peace, bring it on, baby!

 

[John_19_59]

This Pope appears to be interested in unifying all people

Unity?

Perhaps he would be better sticking to his God given mission instead.

“Go and make disciples of all the nations”.

Perhaps he should follow the example of his master, proclaiming “Repent and believe” to an unbelieving world…

…ah but maybe that would be divisive - we can’t have that can we.

Building an earthly paradise is not part of his mandate.

Bringing people to repentance and to Christ IS.

 

[msproule]

preyoflove:

Wonder why they weren’t doing it a lot with the late “De Laboram Solis”?

Honestly, I had never heard much about the Saint Malachy “prophesies” until the passing of our beloved Holy Father last month.

Perhaps if there had been such widespread interest, then we would have heard more about it during the life of HH Pope John Paul II.

As for the “last” Pope prophesied, any Successor of Peter, as Bishop of Rome, can be described as “Peter the Roman”, can he not?

So, whether or not he takes the name Peter, and whether or not he hails from the city or Rome, the description will fit.

 

[preyoflove]

msproule:

Honestly, I had never heard much about the Saint Malachy “prophesies” until the passing of our beloved Holy Father last month.

Perhaps if there had been such widespread interest, then we would have heard more about it during the life of HH Pope John Paul II.

As for the “last” Pope prophesied, any Successor of Peter, as Bishop of Rome, can be described as “Peter the Roman”, can he not?

So, whether or not he takes the name Peter, and whether or not he hails from the city or Rome, the description will fit.

Actually, the part of “Petrus Romanus” is disputed because some say it was a later insertion to this similarly disputed prophecy. They say that in fear of the possibility of the last entry in the list to mean the pontificate of the Second and Final Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, someone extended the list with that “Petrus Romanus” entry in there.

 

[msproule]

preyoflove:

Actually, the part of “Petrus Romanus” is disputed because some say it was a later insertion to this similarly disputed prophecy.

Personally, I agree with this opinion. I think the last entry was added at a later time.

 

[amantoan]

What struck me about the article:

preyoflove:

Since becoming Pope, Benedict has made frequent statements supporting inter-religious cooperation, a shift of emphasis from his earlier drive to assert a superiority of Catholicism.

Those two are not mutually exclusive. You can have ecuminism and inter-religous WHILE maintaining the the superiotity of Catholicism. In fact, that is the only true ecuminism.

 

[Sarah_Jane]

amantoan:

Those two are not mutually exclusive. You can have ecuminism and inter-religous WHILE maintaining the the superiotity of Catholicism. In fact, that is the only true ecuminism.

I agree.