Author Topic: Masons welcome Pope Francis (Read 5768 times)

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #15 on:** March 24, 2013, 02:02:06 PM »

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Has he ever accepted this honor?

Yes.

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Is he aware Rotary made him an honorary member?

Yes.

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Does Rotary fall under the Masonry excommunication censor?

The Church did condemn Rotary in the 1920s.

Anthony Benedict · « **Reply #16 on:** March 24, 2013, 02:31:11 PM »

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I came across a reported interview with Msgr. Borgoglio prior to his election as pope. It's included in Damien Thompson's column in the Telegraph, and is rather lengthy. It may be a frabrication, as Thompson is almost persuaded. If it's not, then I think we need to sit back and let Pope Francis' papapcy begin to flower before passing absolute judgment upon him. This interview could have been placed under a new topic, but I doubt that many forum members will take much interest in it, so I just include it here for a bit of added color and detail.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100208720/did-pope-francis-really-say-that-socialism-causes-misery-and-that-america-is-heading-towards-a-form-of-communism/

That "interview" was cooked by a tone-deaf neo-con ( is there any other kind? ) commiting agitprop.

Total fake.

Mithrandylan · « **Reply #17 on:** March 24, 2013, 02:33:57 PM »

Quote from: ServusSpiritusSancti

Quote from: Seraphim
Has he ever accepted this honor?

Yes.

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Is he aware Rotary made him an honorary member?

Yes.

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Does Rotary fall under the Masonry excommunication censor?

The Church did condemn Rotary in the 1920s.

The quote provided before didn't condemn Rotary membership, but labeled it undesirable. Do you have a source that condemns it? Just curious, in my mind this issue is simply 'icing' (or not) on a cake that is already built and stands on it's own due to Bergoglio's public sins against the faith.

hollingsworth · « **Reply #18 on:** March 24, 2013, 03:43:36 PM »

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That "interview" was cooked by a tone-deaf neo-con ( is there any other kind? ) commiting agitprop.

Total fake.

I think, as far as I'm concerned anyway, that you'll have to provide a bit of solid evidence for your claims that it is a "fake." It may well be, but not because you say it is.

Anthony Benedict · « **Reply #19 on:** March 24, 2013, 05:03:58 PM »

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That "interview" was cooked by a tone-deaf neo-con ( is there any other kind? ) commiting agitprop.

Total fake.

I think, as far as I'm concerned anyway, that you'll have to provide a bit of solid evidence for your claims that it is a "fake." It may well be, but not because you say it is.

'Course not. Even if I had any, arguing from authority is still a crap shoot.

Anyway, if you read the alleged Bergoglio quotes, the idioms used are not at all similar to anything I've watched him use on TV or in print.

Annnnndddd... since so much of the "initial take" by the media has come from later-discredited "sources", odds favor anything as false to the very grammar of the man as this - in my pontifically humble opinion - to be discreditable, as well.

Better?