He suffers from "Eucharistic knee failure"

It’s funny how Francis keeps saying how his church must not be “closed in on itself” and yet it is Novus Ordo churches that are typically laid out in a circle

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Of course all are invited, but to a conversion of life; to the way of the cross.

So what are you saying? The Church should have closed doors where only the few are invited? Don’t be silly. The pope is simply echoing the gospel. The problem is that people are spending too much time reading the Internet and not enough time reading the Bible. Today, the big deception of the devil is to slander the pope, divide Catholics and destroy the faith and the trust of many. Satan is always the accuser, and uses the naive, the wicked and the dumb to spread his work. It is a terrible thing for a Catholic to be persecuting the pope; the result is a scattering of the flock.

James Brady5 years ago

Presume the good but, actual errors must be called out in charity and is the duty of all Christians.

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Ghostwriter5 years ago

@thomasvalle No one is suggesting the Church close her doors. The problem with Francis, however -- or at least one of the many problems -- is that he constantly uses straw man arguments like the one cited in the article above. Precisely *no one* is promoting an arrogant, self-satisfied "Church of the pure and perfect." Francis is attacking bogeymen who simply don't exist. We are quite aware of our own frailty and sinfulness, and we don't presume any kind of moral superiority to anyone else. What we do desire, though, is a Church that takes seriously Christ and the deposit of faith handed down to us. Francis manifestly does not do this, and neither do the bishops and cardinals with whom he's surrounded himself. Francis routinely draws a false dichotomy between the Church's teachings and "mercy" -- a mercy whose definition (to the extent it can be defined at all) has been drawn up by Francis himself. He's a bewilderingly arrogant man who see himself as a modern Moses sent to liberate Catholics from 2000 years of Church bondage.

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To receive the Eucharist, we mustn’t be conscious of any unconfessed mortal sin, the constant teaching of the Church. It doesn’t mean we must be perfect.

“Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.” (From a letter to the Romans by Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr)

"Church with open doors, that gathers and celebrates around Christ..." This isn't a statue of Christ, and yet there you all are celebrating around it. Ironically, you and your Vatican stooges literally turned your backs on Christ.

Where & when did anyone ever say that the Church is for the "pure & perfect"? Never in Church history in fact. The idea that prior to Vatican 2 (or now apparently prior to Francis) the Church was closed in on herself & reserved for the "perfect" is narrative framing revisionism.