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crossbro is correct -- Francis did not actually say what this quoted website has for a headline. The words of the headline are found nowhere in the words of Francis quoted in the article. How headlines can be legal when they are obviously fabrications is another story, maybe 'freedom of the press'?
Yellow journalism?
Pope Francis Says Christians Do Not Exist Outside The Roman Catholic Church
http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=21558
In the midst of general confusion, what is one to think about this?
Is it a deliberate attempt to further confuse people? throw the occasional bone at conservatives? the result of more ambiguity? a genuine advance in the right direction of EENS?
In any case, Protestants are not happy about this one.
Thoughts?
He is right. True Christianity cannot exist outside of the Catholic Church.
Only that is not what he said is it ? He groups all "Christians" into one category- anyone baptized regardless if they are members of the RCC or not.
A few of the 237 comments (so far) are noteworthy:
Mommie Dearest · Works at Disabled
being a former Catholic I find this appalling. I left the Catholic Church because of the contradictions that I found and what they teach vs what the word says. I was 14 and my eyes were opened. I am a follower of christ and see the falseness of this mans talk
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· 79 · May 16 at 9:43pm
Mark Crowder · Top Commenter · Dickson County High School
I'm very happy for you! mommie, I'm a born again christian and it's astonishing. at how many people follow this man? God Bless You!
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· 40 · May 16 at 9:58pm
Jimmy Usis · Top Commenter · Works at MI6
Mommie, I was 42 when I left The Catholic Church, and this man (the Pope) is of Satan! and so is the R.C. Church.
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· 34 · May 17 at 4:08am
howjanmeg (signed in using yahoo)
What you actually left was the Novus Ordo, the satanic sect that has infiltrated the Vatican structures and hierarchy, usurping true Catholic authority and replacing it with a counterfeit "church" that claims to be Catholic, but obviously is not. This was prophesied to occur through history by Catholic mystics.
Through my studies I have come to believe that
Bergoglio is most likely THE Antichrist.....what is only lacking now is a mortal wound for him to be "healed" from. He is heading Israel soon and has actually stated he will not use the bullet-proof
anti-popemobile, so a "double-tap" to the head, ala JFK style, is what I am expecting.
Though
Bergoglio [couldn't] care less about the dogma "outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation;" in this context he is trying to put the finishing touches on the coming final deception where all men who are not traditional Catholics and true Christians will receive the mark and be subject to the new Emperor, the Red Dragon, and his King, the Antichrist. All others will probably be starved or killed outright by non-worship of the Antichrist.
You protestants had better wake up soon, because 500 years of drinking Luther's satanic "koolaid" is not the doctrine of Jesus Christ. Luther's "doctrine" came from the devil while Luther was sitting on the toilet (Luther's own words). The devil won Luther over to his point of view in conversation, and Luther even hurled his own excrement at the devil at times during these conversations. Luther said that a person could commit murder and adultery/fornication 1000 times a day and not lose his justification. And folks can't reject Luther as the father of your sect, as HE IS the father of all the initial breakaway sects and those that have further splintered from the rebel sects.
Because of protestantism and the rise of atheism, we are getting closer to the Apocalypse, not further away from it.
One faith, one Lord, one baptism (one doctrine, one Church)
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· 21 · May 17 at 6:44am