Blackrook
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Your discovery of bad Popes is not shocking to me, they taught me all about them in Catholic high school religion class. The Catholic Church does not rely on its authority based on the fallible human nature of its Popes, its bishops, or its priests. Each of these must work out their own salvation between them and God.You brought up the past, not I, so you made it relevant. It certainly is relevant to establishing any worthy authority of the Roman Church.The example of bad Popes is not relevant. You have the example of Christ, and the saints, and the martyrs, and you have failed to follow it.Catholic membership is falling because the Catholic Popes, bishops, and priests are NOT saying what they need to say, which is that failure to be a faithful Catholic, and obeying the Ten Commandments, puts the soul in peril of hell. If the Catholic Church was teaching THAT, people would be piling in the doors.I reject your counsel. Christians need to speak out, and start warning people that their souls are in deadly peril. I feel in my heart overwhelming confidence that all who support legal abortion, and advocate for it, and participate in it, will go to hell. I see no other possibility for those who are guilty of this most terrible of crimes, the murder of the most innocent of God's children.
OK. After a statement like that, how many people do you think would just ignore what you or any other so called religious person might say? Church membership is falling fast. Keep up the good work.
We need to go Medieval. We need to return to hellfire and brimstone. We need to warn people, as Christ did, that rejection of Christ and his Commandments has eternal and irreversible consequences. And also, we need to turn our attentions to the religion of Islam. The only thing that saved Europe from Islam in the Middle Ages was a strong and militant Catholic faith. And if Europe is to be saved in this century, Europe must return to Christ and Christ's Church. Otherwise, Europe will be lost.
Past Popes, particularly late medieval and early renaissance, are not going to provide very positive examples, either.