@DouthatNYT puts his finger on an aspect of Vatican teaching that has irritated me for so long that I now almost treat it as an inevitable fact of life. Statements from Rome are always marked by that unspoken complacent assumption that we are all Social Democrats now. But we aren’t.
https://t.co/ZKZtaXxAZ9
.@RobertSRoyal on a central problem concerning the Church’s leadership today: the lack of emphasis and sense of urgency to preach about eternity and the salvation of souls.
Of the 1.4 billion Catholics in the world it's quite likely that one billion of them don't understand the precepts of their religion. We have had roughly 60 years of "Jesus is nice!"
Stephen Colbert, a professed Catholic, says he believes that when we die, "there is some continuance of some kind. But it’s like a dispersion of the self into some other greater being. And I don’t have any other feelings beyond that.”
This sounds more like the Gnostic concept of the Pleroma than the Catholic doctrine of Heaven.
A Christian is killed every 2 hours in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 70% of all Christians killed for their faith last year were Nigerian. And yet 94% of Nigerian Catholics still show up to Mass every Sunday. The highest attendance rate on the planet.
Read that again.
The cardinal who wrote this soft porn book has been given the power to 'excommunicate' the SSPX by Pope Leo
They're so arrogant, they don't care about the optics
The ultimate in the very clericalism they pretend to repudiate
David Axelrod met with the Pope last week, a few days later the Pope attacked President Trump on Iran.
Then last night three liberal Cardinals attacked president Trump on 60 minutes
This was all coordinated by Barrack Obama to break Trump's catholic base before the midterms
America kills about 1,000,000 unborn human beings a year through abortion and yet three leading cardinals go on 60 Minutes to promote left-wing talking points on Trump, the illegal immigration invasion, etc.
Chuck Schumer: "Iran still has its nuclear stockpile. Its nuclear ambitions are still unchecked, if not accelerated…The nations at the world are furious at Trump: the Asians, the Europeans, even the Middle Eastern allies."
🚨Joy Reid warns America about the MAGA agenda: "They want to take us back to no income tax, no regulations, earn what you want, family inherits everything"