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Monday, October 21, 2013

Eric Dolan — Pope Francis describes ‘ideological Christians’ as a ‘serious illness’ within the Church (via Raw Story )

Pope Francis describes ‘ideological Christians’ as a ‘serious illness’ within the Church (via Raw Story )
Speaking at daily Mass last Thursday, Pope Francis warned Christians against turning their faith into a rigid ideology. “The faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology,” he said, according to Radio Vatican. “And ideology…


4 comments:

  1. I would point out to the Pope that the apostle Paul never used the word "disciple" (mathetai) in any of his letters...

    The Pope's 'charity state liberalism' is a reasoned ideology too.

    rsp,

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  2. The RCC should never have ended it's opposition to usury since the common stock company is an ethical form of private money creation.

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  3. Charity state liberalism is a term made by the rigid ones dealing in the currencies of fanaticism and coin fetishes - such as minting a magical coin to smokescreen all the problems and reduce the beautitudes to background noise by over quoting old testament pennies

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  4. Here is another good one from Francis:

    "Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness."

    'Tenderness'?: "Be following Me, and leave the dead to entomb their own dead."

    'Love'?: "Leave them! Blind guides are they of the blind!"

    'Meekness'?: "Serpents! Progeny of vipers!"

    ????

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