rjhenn (04-27-2018)
This is what he said. I don't know how anybody who calls themselves Christian can criticize it.
"That night, the One who had no place to be born is proclaimed to those who had no place at the table or in the streets of the city. The shepherds are the first to hear this Good News. By reason of their work, they were men and women forced to live on the edges of society. Their state of life, and the places they had to stay, prevented them from observing all the ritual prescriptions of religious purification; as a result, they were considered unclean. Their skin, their clothing, their smell, their way of speaking, their origin, all betrayed them. Everything about them generated mistrust. They were men and women to be kept at a distance, to be feared. They were considered pagans among the believers, sinners among the just, foreigners among the citizens.
Yet to them – pagans, sinners and foreigners – the angel says: “Do not be afraid; for see – I am bringing you good news of great joy for the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord” (Lk 2:10-11).
This is the joy that we tonight are called to share, to celebrate and to proclaim. The joy with which God, in his infinite mercy, has embraced us pagans, sinners and foreigners, and demands that we do the same.
The faith we proclaim tonight makes us see God present in all those situations where we think he is absent. He is present in the unwelcomed visitor, often unrecognizable, who walks through our cities and our neighbourhoods, who travels on our buses and knocks on our doors."
https://www.romereports.com/en/2017/...as-eve-homily/
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
rjhenn (04-27-2018)
/shrugs......no one has.....I was responding to donaldo's quote of the pope in #153.....do you believe the pope said
if so he has changed Christian doctrine to say all you have to do is "do good"......Francis explained himself, "The Lord created us in His image and likeness, and we are the image of the Lord, and He does good and all of us have this commandment at heart, do good and do not do evil. All of us. 'But, Father, this is not Catholic! He cannot do good.' Yes, he can... "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ, all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!" We must meet one another doing good. 'But I don't believe, Father, I am an atheist!' But do good: we will meet one another there."
sounds like he will increase the faith of mankind
Last edited by evince; 04-23-2018 at 05:48 PM.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
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"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
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"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
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"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
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Do you ever get the impression that a lot of bible thumpers and evangelicals actually don't know that much about religion? I do.
Because I have met plenty of evangelical bible thumpers who don't know that Catholics are Christians. Don't know that Muslims revere Jesus and believe in the same God. Don't know much at all about the history of Christianity. And aren't even really that curious to find out.
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