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Really? Then what is this thread all about? And aren’t there several clergy who regularly speak out about what the Pope does or says? Might want to revisit that particular declaration…No one dare speak out.
Ah… a refreshing perspective…thanks blackforest.It’s an interfaith tree-planting ceremony. I’ll reserve my moral outrage for more important issues. On feast of St. Francis, pope joins Amazonians to plant tree at Vatican | National Catholic Reporter
If it was issued that long ago, is it related to the occasion you brought up? If it is, then why did you say:Pehaps you missed the call for prayer and fasting from two prominent bishops. This was issued long before the “amazonian synod”.
??No one dare speak out.
The Pope participated in tree planting ceremony… which is inline with Laudate Si and the symbolic of the horrible fires currently burning in the Amazon…Just because an event is “consecrated to a catholic saint”, that doesn’t make it any less sacrilegious. That makes it even WORSE. Nothing like this ceremony should take place on Vatican soil, where St. Peter himself was martyred! Should we have Pagan Norse rituals and consecrate them to St. Olaf? Or have pagan Native American rituals and consecrate them to St. Kateri Tekakwitha?
Yes He did. He also taught truth and did not hold His tongue in the presence of falsehood.You’re right… Jesus made a habit of sitting with sinners, tax collectors and other vile humans… How dare the Pope and the Church emulate that nasty habit…
Christianity has been too often in what seemed deadly peril, that we should fear for it any new trial now. So far is certain; on the other hand, what is uncertain, and in these great contests commonly is uncertain, and what is commonly a great surprise, when it is witnessed, is the particular mode by which, in the event, Providence rescues and saves His elect inheritance. Sometimes our enemy is turned into a friend; sometimes he is despoiled of {70} that special virulence of evil which was so threatening; sometimes he falls to pieces of himself; sometimes he does just so much as is beneficial, and then is removed. Commonly the Church has nothing more to do than to go on in her own proper duties, in confidence and peace; to stand still and to see the salvation of God.
http://www.newmanreader.org/works/addresses/file2.html
Christ didn’t participate or affirm them in their sinssYou’re right… Jesus made a habit of sitting with sinners, tax collectors and other vile humans… How dare the Pope and the Church emulate that nasty habit…