Rich Maffeo on Nostr: I received a private message prayer request today from a faithful Catholic friend on ...
I received a private message prayer request today from a faithful Catholic friend on Facebook. The request made me very angry for her sake. Apparently, some priest on Facebook blocked her from his page and accused her of being in ‘mortal sin’ because she ‘bashed the pope.’
Clearly, it does not matter to this priest that the pope is worthy of far more than just a verbal bashing. According to the Bible – a.k.a. God's inviolable word – this current pope should be not only stripped of his clerical garb, but he should be excommunicated for MULTIPLE examples of blasphemy against Christ and His Church. I could cite sufficient Biblical texts to support that statement, but you probably already know them.
But that’s not what the Catholic church does – excommunicate their popes, regardless of their crimes against Christ. They just endure evil when it comes from Peter’s Seat.
What this priest said to my Catholic Facebook friend reminds me of what the very religious clergy said to the person Jesus had healed of blindness. You’ll find that story in the ninth chapter of John’s gospel.
When the healed blind man told them Jesus was not a sinner, as they’d accused the Lord, the clergy said to the man: “You were born entirely in your sins, and are YOU teaching us?” And then they cast him out of the synagogue.
I’ve met priests like that. They seem to think that just because they’ve gone to seminary and they’ve had hands laid on them by some bishop, that they are now somehow better than, smarter than, more worthy than the poor laity in the pews who know nothing.
I fear that this poor woman has succumbed to the superstition – and that is what it is, superstition – that this priest, simply by virtue of his priesthood, has the right to accuse her mortal sin because she said what EVERY Catholic clergy and laity should be saying about this pope. This sycophant priest simply wants her to shut up and get back in line.
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Clearly, it does not matter to this priest that the pope is worthy of far more than just a verbal bashing. According to the Bible – a.k.a. God's inviolable word – this current pope should be not only stripped of his clerical garb, but he should be excommunicated for MULTIPLE examples of blasphemy against Christ and His Church. I could cite sufficient Biblical texts to support that statement, but you probably already know them.
But that’s not what the Catholic church does – excommunicate their popes, regardless of their crimes against Christ. They just endure evil when it comes from Peter’s Seat.
What this priest said to my Catholic Facebook friend reminds me of what the very religious clergy said to the person Jesus had healed of blindness. You’ll find that story in the ninth chapter of John’s gospel.
When the healed blind man told them Jesus was not a sinner, as they’d accused the Lord, the clergy said to the man: “You were born entirely in your sins, and are YOU teaching us?” And then they cast him out of the synagogue.
I’ve met priests like that. They seem to think that just because they’ve gone to seminary and they’ve had hands laid on them by some bishop, that they are now somehow better than, smarter than, more worthy than the poor laity in the pews who know nothing.
I fear that this poor woman has succumbed to the superstition – and that is what it is, superstition – that this priest, simply by virtue of his priesthood, has the right to accuse her mortal sin because she said what EVERY Catholic clergy and laity should be saying about this pope. This sycophant priest simply wants her to shut up and get back in line.
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