About time. I am a Catholic. BUT I do NOT recognize the pope. I do not recognize the church any longer. I am Catholic in my soul and heart and my Church is everywhere I go. It is in my heart and soul.
I do not recognize the Catholic church in today's world and the pope is a satanic entity in my opinion.
Just this pope. I believe he was installed by Obama. Unfortunately, there has been a huge demise in the Catholic religion over the past few decades. I'm not sure what caused it to go downhill so far, but once it did, I had to turn inward to be with God.
I went to a Catholic school in upstate NY. I played the huge pipe organ for the choir-it had the bells on the outside and it was wonderful.
At that time, Mass was beautiful. People dressed accordingly for God. You could feel love in the Church and love from the nuns and priests and the people.
I watched this all dissolve over the years and stopped going to Mass.
The fact that the Catholic charities are part of the illegal trafficking says it all, I guess.
But, yes I was baptized Catholic, raised Catholic, and loved the Church back in the day when it felt holy.
As far as the emphasis on the pope; yes the church does like to make it quite a production. I have never put a great deal of emphasis on the pope; somehow it felt like doing so was taking the spotlight away from God.
I guess you could equate it to the Presidency. He is an elected official of the people.
The pope is a selected man - selected by the Cardinals-or in this case Obama. He needed to do something to remove Catholics from power-giving us this pope started it all.
As for the current pope-he is everything a pope should not be. Many of his statements and policies go against everything I was taught about Catholicism or Christianity itself.
And for that matter we read the bible in this house daily.
Hence, my Church goes with me everywhere I go.
Hope this helps.
~A
This guy is an imposter. So the Church does not have a pope currently. Antipopes have happened before in history. The barque of Peter will weather this storm. But Bergoglio is not pope as far as I can see and according to many, many brilliant people vastly smarter than I am. Bishop Fulton Sheen said a time would come when the "ape" of the Church would compete with the true Church and that is what we are seeing right now. These faithless bishops don't profess the Gospel or the Decalogue. Their actions show they do not believe in Jesus anymore.
About time. I am a Catholic. BUT I do NOT recognize the pope. I do not recognize the church any longer. I am Catholic in my soul and heart and my Church is everywhere I go. It is in my heart and soul.
I do not recognize the Catholic church in today's world and the pope is a satanic entity in my opinion.
" my Church is everywhere I go."
You are a very wise person.
I agree with you about the pope.
But I wonder -- as a Catholic, how do you remain a Catholic while denouncing the pope?
Is it just this pope, or all popes?
And if there is no pope, how does that change Catholicism?
Seems like the Catholic religion puts a massive emphasis on a pope.
Just curious.
Just this pope. I believe he was installed by Obama. Unfortunately, there has been a huge demise in the Catholic religion over the past few decades. I'm not sure what caused it to go downhill so far, but once it did, I had to turn inward to be with God. I went to a Catholic school in upstate NY. I played the huge pipe organ for the choir-it had the bells on the outside and it was wonderful.
At that time, Mass was beautiful. People dressed accordingly for God. You could feel love in the Church and love from the nuns and priests and the people. I watched this all dissolve over the years and stopped going to Mass.
The fact that the Catholic charities are part of the illegal trafficking says it all, I guess.
But, yes I was baptized Catholic, raised Catholic, and loved the Church back in the day when it felt holy.
As far as the emphasis on the pope; yes the church does like to make it quite a production. I have never put a great deal of emphasis on the pope; somehow it felt like doing so was taking the spotlight away from God.
I guess you could equate it to the Presidency. He is an elected official of the people. The pope is a selected man - selected by the Cardinals-or in this case Obama. He needed to do something to remove Catholics from power-giving us this pope started it all.
As for the current pope-he is everything a pope should not be. Many of his statements and policies go against everything I was taught about Catholicism or Christianity itself.
And for that matter we read the bible in this house daily.
Hence, my Church goes with me everywhere I go. Hope this helps. ~A
This guy is an imposter. So the Church does not have a pope currently. Antipopes have happened before in history. The barque of Peter will weather this storm. But Bergoglio is not pope as far as I can see and according to many, many brilliant people vastly smarter than I am. Bishop Fulton Sheen said a time would come when the "ape" of the Church would compete with the true Church and that is what we are seeing right now. These faithless bishops don't profess the Gospel or the Decalogue. Their actions show they do not believe in Jesus anymore.