To be frank. Any Catholic who supported what Pope Leo is doing at the moment I would have the very gravest doubts of the Salvation of their Eternal souls. Well, well, well on the path to the flames of hell. Well down the Darkest road. I have warned and warned and warned about this. But those who are bent on the Path to Destruction will go to their due place. Sigh. May God have mercy on your poor souls.
Good video. I wonder how long it will be before all Latin masses are cancelled. There aren’t any around me or I would go. Our Bishop is pushing for the synodal way, there are a group of people in my parish who volunteered. I think there is a big conference coming up this year. I don’t pay much attention to it. But the whole movement is very unusual. I just keep focused on Jesus.
I've just read some of the Pope's new encyclical - almost all based on documents of Vatican II and recent Pope's teachings. To be honest (maybe I am not that smart?) much of it goes over my head and it is such a boring read full of sound bites and platitudes with the odd reference to Scriptures but mostly quoting from encycylicals from post Vatican II Popes - so if you are going to critique and criticise this document then you are going to have to criticise Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI because it builds upon previous documents - I stopped half way through and got angry at the constant mention of the preferential option for the 'poor' and marginalised! Who are the poor? We are all getting poorer because of inflation - I am really feeling the pinch at the minute - money is tight and my savings disappearing faster than a rat up a drain pipe - I still work 4 days a week to keep myself afloat even though technically retired - inflation (caused by governments) is killing the value of money. I know lots of people working their butts off making very little money like farmers in Ireland who have protested that they cannot make a living - one gets the impression the Vatican is totally out of touch with the real world and that encyclical in pie in the sky stuff not relevant to the majority of people scraping a living. We are over-taxed. God only ever asked 10% from us max. Yet, when you take all the taxes I am paying it must add to 50% a form of theft in my opinion. Last month the British government spent something like 333 billion on welfare and took in only 331 billion in of income tax. Many people choose a benefit lifestyle because work does not pay. Who are the marginalised? Catholics trying to live the faith in difficult times. A protestant pastor was fined recently for preaching on a Sunday outside Coleraine hospital (an abortion mill), no mention of abortion, just Christ. The lack of response from the local Catholic bishop is disturbing. Catholics have been arrested for praying silently near these abortion mills. They are the marginalised! Rant over!
I think that there is a place for the respect for the office of the Papacy regardless, or else we are not Catholic any longer. With respect.
. I am just stating my feelings. It has nothing to do with you. The poor are mentioned often in the Bible. The Lord Himself said, the poor you will always have with you. I would never insult you. I think too highly of you, and the others on this forum.
There will be a great many of us praying during this rosary, for not only peace, but repentance and a return to God. And Mary can direct all prayer to her toward God's Will. I am confident of that!
That's very much along the thought of Pope John Paul II, who modified the Catechism by saying life imprisonment without parole was a possible alternative to capital punishment in some situations. The sad thing is that such a stand was then taken by Pope Francis to say there was no room for any use of capital punishment. Such was a denial of the Book of Genesis, where after the Flood, God personally declared capital punishment is permissible.
This coming Monday, Geralyn and I will fly down to visit our son, Christopher's family, in Sealy, TX for 6 days. Lots of time for Geralyn and I to add multiple Rosaries while in flight! Michelle is expecting no.5 and the grandkids are really excited about seeing Grandpa and Grandma!
My family and I are flying into the US on Monday! I haven't been for over 8 years. We will be staying with my brother and his new wife! I will be saying some extra rosaries too, on the plane, for their conversion, he's a lapsed Catholic and she is some Protestant denomination. I am really looking forward to the trip and was anxious it wouldn't be happening with all the stuff going on in the world right now. After I purchased the tickets I gave it all to our Lord Jesus, how much it would please me to see my brother and meet this girl, but if it wasn't His will I would accept it and offer up my disappointment to Him. However like always, Jesus spoils me! Praise be His Holy Name! Now to finish packing
I believe that the death penalty is wrong and that war is never just. I believe that independently of anything that the Catholic Church teaches. Yes, self defense is allowed and defense of the vulnerable but war must be avoided. Was it worth shedding blood for the independence of Ireland from Britain - I believe not. This is my personal belief.
Your position, whilst admirable, is more in line with the pacifist Quakers. In an ideal world war capital punishment and wars would cease to exist but we don't live in a ideal world. We live in a world where sin reigns and the Bible tells us the wages of sin is death. How any rational creature can deny the existence of orignal sin, the original flaw in man, is beyond me. A cursory glance at the news headlines is enough proof for me of the impact of original sin in our world through individual and corporate actions. I do agree war needs to be avoided at all costs but sometimes necessary in self-defense.
No matter how evil we believe someone to be, there is always a chance of redemption in Jesus Christ. He is the Final Judge of all of us.
