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2020-03-13 Olde Tyme Religion
Pope Frank: The Devil Assails Christians with Vanity and Rage
[BREITBART] The devil always goes to extremes in his attacks on Christians, Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
said Wednesday, either through the soft sell of worldly glory and comfort or the violence of enraged persecution.

In his live-streamed morning Mass at the chapel of his Santa Marta residence in the Vatican, Pope Francis prayed for victims of the coronavirus
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, while focusing in his homily on the works of the devil.

"The devil has two strategies: the seduction of worldly promises, and when this fails, that of rage," the pope said.

The first ploy attempted by Satan to separate us from Christ will always be that of a "worldly spirit," Francis said, where he offers "self-realization, careerism, and worldly success, as ways to cover up the cross of Jesus."

When this strategy fails, the devil often turns to violence and fury, the pontiff continued.

We see this in Christ’s passion where there is not merely a death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
, but "there is more, there is humiliation, there is rage. And when there is fury in the persecution of a Christian, the devil is present," he said.

And so the two thieves crucified with Jesus are "condemned and crucified, but then left to die in peace. Instead, the insults only fall on Jesus."

"The devil knows no middle ground," the pope said. "His pride is so great that he enjoys destroying with rage. Think of the persecution of so many saints, so many Christians, whom he does not kill, but he makes them suffer, and tries by every means to humiliate them to the end."

As an example of this rage in the persecution of Christians, Francis offered the example of the Pak Christian Asia Bibi, who spent "nine years in prison, suffering the rage of the devil."

"May the Lord give us the grace to be able to recognize that spirit that wants to destroy us with fury and when that same spirit wants to console us with worldly appearances, with vanity," Francis said. "May the Lord give us the grace to discern the path of the Lord, which is the cross, from the path of the world, which is vanity, appearances, window-dressing."



Posted by Fred 2020-03-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Devil assails...using Vanity and Rage?
Or devil assails those exhibiting Vanity and Rage?

In the former case, lookout everyone.
In the latter, lookout ... virtue-signaling Woke Warriors.

Which is it, Bergoglio?
Posted by Lex 2020-03-13 00:26||   2020-03-13 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 In his live-streamed morning Mass

Alone, by himself in his apartments.
Is that Massterbation?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-13 01:28||   2020-03-13 01:28|| Front Page Top

#3 The only thing to center on in this sly, serpentine sermon is this line :

'...And when there is fury in the persecution of a Christian, the devil is present,'

Passes under the radar at first glance, I know.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-03-13 06:46||   2020-03-13 06:46|| Front Page Top

#4 s "self-realization, careerism, and worldly success,

Sounds like the feminist mantra to me.
Posted by AlanC 2020-03-13 08:40||   2020-03-13 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Sometimes the devil speaks Marxists nonsense and wears the Popes clothes...
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-03-13 10:39||   2020-03-13 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Yes
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-13 11:48||   2020-03-13 11:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Alone, by himself in his apartments.
Is that Massterbation?


Tell me that's not a winner!
Posted by SteveS 2020-03-13 15:16||   2020-03-13 15:16|| Front Page Top

#8 For our "spiritual" Papa, a startlement!
It's Bengt, in his spartan apartment:
"I snuck up the stairs."
"May I just say my prayers?"
"Will they save you?" "That's not my department."
Posted by Albert Untervehr4295 2020-03-13 16:38||   2020-03-13 16:38|| Front Page Top

12:58 trailing wife









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