Jesus condemned the religious leaders

[BreadOfLife]

Hey Breadman, look at this;

List of sexually active popes - Wikipedia

And this means . . . what, exactly?
That there have been popes who were sinners?

News flash: You're a sinner

 

[H. Richard]

What I see in the RCC is that the Pope is idolized and he is waited on hand and foot, fed great meals, and has never SUFFERED for the Gospel.

Compare that to the life of Paul when he taught the gospel of grace.
2 Cor 11:23-27
23 Are they ministers of Christ? — I speak as a fool — I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness —
NKJV

 

[epostle1]

What I see in the RCC is that the Pope is idolized and he is waited on hand and foot, fed great meals, and has never SUFFERED for the Gospel.

Compare that to the life of Paul when he taught the gospel of grace.
2 Cor 11:23-27
23 Are they ministers of Christ? — I speak as a fool — I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness —
NKJV

Pope Francis celebrated an active if low-key 80th birthday on Saturday, sharing breakfast with eight homeless people before celebrating Mass with cardinals as greetings poured in from around the world.
Pope Francis eats with homeless on 80th birthday | CatholicHerald.co.uk

Pope Francis Will Dine with the Homeless Instead of Congress During His DC Visit

The first 40 popes were killed for the gospel, but that doesn't that count if you are an ignorant anti-Catholic bigot, bent on persecuting all Catholics just for being Catholic.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Pope Francis celebrated an active if low-key 80th birthday on Saturday, sharing breakfast with eight homeless people before celebrating Mass with cardinals as greetings poured in from around the world.
Pope Francis eats with homeless on 80th birthday | CatholicHerald.co.uk

Pope Francis Will Dine with the Homeless Instead of Congress During His DC Visit

The first 40 popes were killed for the gospel, but that doesn't that count if you are an ignorant anti-Catholic bigot.

They look like actors.

 

[epostle1]

Meet the disfigured man whose embrace with Pope Francis warmed hearts - CNN

 

[BreadOfLife]

What I see in the RCC is that the Pope is idolized and he is waited on hand and foot, fed great meals, and has never SUFFERED for the Gospel.

Compare that to the life of Paul when he taught the gospel of grace.
2 Cor 11:23-27
23 Are they ministers of Christ? — I speak as a fool — I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness —
NKJV

Would it make you feel better if the Pope was ignored by Catholics?
What a silly position.

By the way - "idolized" means tha he is worshippd as a god - and he is NOT.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Would it make you feel better if the Pope was ignored by Catholics?
What a silly position.

By the way - "idolized" means tha he is worshippd as a god - and he is NOT.

Yes, he is too
Where have you been?

 

[GodsGrace]

They look like actors.

Plenty of new homeless people in Italy.

 

[H. Richard]

I guess I need to post a new copy of ""THE RELIGION BOX"

 

[epostle1]

Oh my goodness an ignore has been issued. I think you have an attitude problem. Your opinion is not worth any more than te other posters and you are not God. But I somehow think those who believe what you do think they are.

CNN SERIES GETS IT WRONG ON THE CRUSADES
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the first episode of CNN’s series on the papacy:

Last night was the first installment of CNN’s six-part series, “Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History.” Its treatment of the rise of the papacy through the centuries was mostly even-handed—until it got to the Crusades.

To be sure, the show featured some cogent observations from St. Louis University professor Thomas Madden. He pointed out that “the Crusades were, first and foremost, an act of piety,” undertaken to stop Islamic invaders who were violently attacking nuns, clergy, and pilgrims; the Christians also sought to liberate the holy city of Jerusalem from its Muslim conquerors.

But Madden’s observations were drowned out by the overriding theme of this segment: that the Crusades were little more than a power grab by Pope Urban II.

We are told that Pope Urban II saw the Crusades as “an opportunity to reunite Christians and restore the reign of the Roman Catholic Church”; that he “called for violence in the name of one world under one Catholic Church”; that the Crusades, while “partly motivated by religious zeal,” were also “partly motivated by a simple desire for conquest”; and that as a result, Pope Francis “is today trying to heal wounds his predecessor inflicted almost a thousand years ago.”

Such assertions are nothing new. Princeton’s Bernard Lewis, one of the world’s most noted historians, has written, “At the present time, the Crusades are often depicted as an early experiment in expansionist imperialism.” Yet, “To the people of the time, both Muslim and Christian, they were no such thing.”

Rather, Lewis explains, “The Crusade was a delayed response to the jihad, the holy war for Islam, and its purpose was to recover by war what had been lost by war—to free the holy places of Christendom and open them once again, without impediment, to Christian pilgrimage.”

Just as important, as Madden has pointed out many times before, “All the Crusades met all the criteria of a just war.” But one would never know this by watching this episode on CNN. There is no question that the uninformed viewer was presented with a jaundiced view of the Crusades.
CNN SERIES GETS IT WRONG ON THE CRUSADES