RIP Billy Graham

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I pray he’s at least in purgatory now and that his time in purgatory is short.

Amen.
 
I have much respect for Billy Graham.

He was a legitimate Man of God - he was NOT a charlatan like Benny Hinn or those televangelist types.

He also did much to further ecumenical relations between Evangelical Protestants and Catholics - a huge plus.

Also his work with MLK in the civil rights movement was a tremendously bold witness to Christian faith & morals.

Lord have mercy on his soul
 
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He was a man who preached the gospel of Jesus Christ to tens of millions of people…how many lives were changed…how many came to the Lord Jesus Christ through his preaching…how many souls were saved…only God can know…I believe if he was Catholic he would be up for sainthood…may he enjoy eternal love with his Lord and Savior .
 
When I awoke this morning and found out that Billy Graham had died, I cried and cried. I hadn’t cried like that for someone I am not related to since JPII died. I had no idea how much that man affected my life until today. Billy Graham is the reason I picked up the Bible and actually read it. I am grateful I lived to see two of the most important evangelists, JPII and Billy Graham. How many people did he lead towards Jesus? It is unbelievable what all he has done. After the shooting last week, the world seems darker without him in it. If it were possible to canonize a non-catholic, it would have to be him. I’m already asking him to intercede for us. Billy Graham, pray for us!
 
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In eternal memory will be the righteous.
Photo: Billy Graham in the Elohovski Cathedral, where he was invited to preach, Moscow, 1982.
 
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In the post-Soviet space, Billy Graham was a great sower in the field of God.
Thanks to Billy Graham, even in Orthodox circles, the faithful paid attention to some of the Protestant virtues and tried to interpret them and surpass them.
Of course , Billy Graham in the same way as Christ sometimes brought by his arrival lively and heated debates, debates about the truth, debates in evangelical and orthodox communities, but most importantly that the hungry spiritually Soviet man thanks to him heard the Word of God (sometimes the first time in his/her life)
 
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Sometime I wonder, by his preaching and belief how many Catholic christian that he cause to leave the flock of Christ, from the Church that was started by Christ.

(1Jn 4:6 DRB) We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
 
Billy_Buescher said:
Sometime I wonder, by his preaching and belief how many Catholic christian that he cause to leave the flock of Christ, from the Church that was started by Christ.

(1Jn 4:6 DRB) We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
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If any left, I dont believe it was because that was his intentions.
 
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If he caused any to do as such, I would say that is the fault of the Church, and not of Graham- I dont think he wanted to lead Catholics away from the Church.
 
Maybe in America the Baptists are liberal, but in the post-Soviet space Baptists are conservative, rich families(with kids), a devoted and ardent servants of the Lord.
The Baptist movement is often transformed into Pentecostal, but it hasn’t become any less spiritually hot because of it.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, several books by Billy Graham were tabletop books on the tables of Evangelical Christians.
Billy Graham’s interfaith friendship sometimes led to schisms in different communities, but the effect of his sermons as a sower of the word was enormous.
 
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The first Catholic President… A lot of people were worried or wondering what it would mean.
 
The article quotes Graham saying this ‘where no Catholic prelate would tell the President, should he be Catholic, how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners how to vote during the election’
No prelate can tell Catholics how to vote. The Church entrusts that to the personal conscience, and the judgment of the individual. So, Graham’s statement of this was in line with that of the Church.

Additionally, the article states that ‘Graham seemed to genuinely regret his bias and in later life made common cause with several popes on matters of morality…’, so at the time of his death, he had no apparent bias towards Catholics.
 
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I really do not know anything about Billy Graham at all. I mean, yes, the name,and a few clips I have seen before, but i have never read anything about him or made a concerted effort to follow him.

Reading some of the posts it looks as if I missed out.

I guess I get really nervous about non-Catholic preaching since it often deteriorates into a condemnation of Catholicism.

And with Graham I often wondered why, with all his knowledge, passion, and zeal, he was not Catholic.
 
What was said at the time was: “He’s going to take orders from the Pope.” Hardly. The last Christmas card produced by the White House in 1963 included a Nativity display in the White House. President Kennedy was aware of the various perceptions about him.
 
He wasn’t Catholic because that’s not what God called him to be. And perhaps, not as many people would’ve listened to him had he been Catholic.
 
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He wasn’t Catholic because that’s not what God called him to be. And perhaps, not as many people would’ve listened to him had he been Catholic.
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I really admire you for saying that. Why do we have to wait until someone dies to speak the truth!
 
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