Category Archives: POPE FRANCIS

WHEN POPE FRANCIS SPEAKS TO JOURNALISTS BE PREPARED TO NOT ATTACH TOO MUCH IMPORTANCE TO WHAT HE SAYS

Posted on September 15, 2013 by abyssum

!!!!  . . In comments likely to enhance his progressive reputation, Pope Francis has written a long, open letter to the founder of La Repubblica newspaper, Eugenio Scalfari, stating that non-believers would be forgiven by God if they followed their … Continue reading →

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HAS LIBERATION THEOLOGY BEEN LIBERATED FROM ITS ‘CAPTIVITY’ BY REVOLUTIONARIES?

Posted on September 5, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Archbishop Gerhard Mueller and Gustavo Gutierrez . . . Peace Made Between Müller and Gutiérrez. But Bergoglio Isn’t Falling For It The prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith and the founder of liberation theology are … Continue reading →

Posted in JUSTICE, LIBERALISM, LIBERATION THEOLOGY, MORAL RELATIVISM, POPE BENEDICT XVI, POPE FRANCIS, RELATIVISM, SECULARISM, THE GREAT SOCIETY, WELFARE STATE | Comments Off on HAS LIBERATION THEOLOGY BEEN LIBERATED FROM ITS ‘CAPTIVITY’ BY REVOLUTIONARIES?

WE GET A GLIMPSE INTO THE CHARACTER OF PIETRO PAROLIN IN HIS REPORT ON HIS TRIP TO VIETNAM

Posted on September 2, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Vatican Diary / Another Venetian at the top, after more than three centuries Similarities and differences between the only two Venetian secretaries of state in history: Pietro Parolin and the cardinal nephew of Alexander VIII. Both at the center … Continue reading →

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POPE FRANCIS CALLS FOR A DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING FOR PEACE ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

Posted on September 1, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! September 1, 2013, Sunday — Pope Francis Calls for a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace on Saturday, September 7 “Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget … Continue reading →

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ARCHBISHOP PIETRO PAROLIN, SOON TO BE CARDINAL, IS HE ALSO PETRUS ROMANO?

Posted on August 31, 2013 by abyssum

!!!!   Archbishop Pietro Parolin August 31, 2013, Saturday — New Vatican Secretary of State Named Today the speculations turned out to be true. Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Pietro Parolin, 58, to be his Vatican Secretary of State, making Parolin … Continue reading →

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POPE FRANCIS’ AIRPLANE INTERVIEW

Posted on August 6, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! August 5, 2013, Monday — The Pope’s press conference, Commentary A week ago, on July 28, on the airplane returning to Rome from Brazil following the week-long visit to celebrate World Youth Day, Pope Francis gave the first press … Continue reading →

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GOD LOVES US FIRST, SEEKS US OUT, AWAITS US FIRST

Posted on August 2, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Primerea: The Spanish Slang at the Heart of Pope Francis’s Theology By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. 8/3/2013 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) God, Pope Francis says, “nos primerea.”  The expression “nos primerea” is in Lunfardo Porteño, or Buenos Aires street slang.  … Continue reading →

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IS POPE FRANCIS AN ENEMY OF THE EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS? PERHAPS NOT!

Posted on July 30, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Pope Francis during press conference on the flight from Brazil to Rome I first read Sandro Magister’s column printed below and I was shocked.  I seemed as though Pope Francis was possibly going to undo all that Pope Benedict … Continue reading →

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IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD…AND THE WORD WAS GOD

Posted on July 24, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Lumen Fidei: The Science of Creation and a Tale of Two Priests By Fr. Gordon J. MacRae July 24, 2013 http://thesestonewalls.com/gordon-macrae/lumen-fidei-the-science-of-creation-and-a-tale-of-two-priests/ Fr Andrew Pinsent echoes the spirit of Fr Georges Lemaitre, a father of modern cosmology who changed the … Continue reading →

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THERE IS A DANGER THAT BISHOPS AROUND THE WORLD WILL ACT LIKE POPE FRANCIS EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT THE VICAR OF CHRIST

Posted on July 15, 2013 by abyssum

!!!!   Vatican Diary / Those saints made as he commands For Romero, Francis loosens the restraints of the Holy Office. For John XXIII and for a Jesuit to whom he is devoted, he goes ahead without waiting for the … Continue reading →

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