re: Catholic Cardinal declares the Pope is perfect like Jesus

The pope infallible? The same guy who was going to Chicago Cubs baseball games a couple years ago?

This is basically a bunch of claims stacked together, but once you actually line them up with Scripture and history, they don’t hold up.

“Christ is the only mediator” yeah, absolutely. Catholics agree with that (1 Timothy 2:5). But you’re mixing up mediation with intercession. The Bible literally tells Christians to pray for each other (1 Timothy 2:1, James 5:16). When you ask someone to pray for you, you’re not replacing Christ. Same thing with the saints, it’s asking for prayer, not competing with Jesus.

“Graven images” is another common misunderstanding. The commandment is against idolatry, not making images at all. Otherwise God contradicts Himself when He commands images like the cherubim on the Ark (Exodus 25:18) or the bronze serpent (Numbers 21:8). The issue isn’t having images, it’s worshiping them as gods, which Catholics don’t do.

The whole “robes, decorations, crowns” thing doesn’t really work either. Go read the Old Testament, the worship God set up was full of vestments, gold, incense, all of it (Exodus 28, 1 Kings 6). So if that’s automatically bad, then you’re saying God designed bad worship.

“Vain repetition” in Matthew 6 isn’t about repeating prayers, it’s about empty, mindless babbling. Jesus Himself repeats prayers (Matthew 26:44), and heaven is literally described as repeating the same praise over and over (Revelation 4:8). So repetition clearly isn’t the issue.

Confession is actually one of the clearest points. Jesus gives the apostles authority to forgive sins in John 20:23, “whose sins you forgive are forgiven.” That’s not vague. And James 5:16 says to confess your sins to one another. So going to a priest isn’t replacing God, it’s using what Christ set up.

And the “pray only to God” idea ignores what Scripture shows about heaven. In Revelation 5:8, the saints are presenting prayers to God. Again, that’s intercession, not competition with God.

So the pattern here is pretty obvious to anyone with a brain in the ability of coherent thought. You’re pulling verses out on their own and running with one interpretation, even when other parts of the Bible clearly add more context. If your interpretation leads you to reject things Christians have believed since the early Church, and it clashes with other parts of Scripture, why assume your reading is the right one?

Wild that satanic forces would go after the Catholic Church huh?

No one has that right?

You gonna try and jail people for criticizing the Pope?

You can eat a bag of dicks.

What a buffoon!!

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Religious leaders have one directive. To follow and advance the spread of the teachings of Jesus Christ.

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OK, but does anyone think Jesus wants murderous moslems to have nuclear weapons? Does Jesus want men to be schlonging each others’ turd channels? Does He want babies to be killed in the womb? Does He want men to cut off their dicks and become women?

Looks like Jesus really is a Republican (not the RINO or the cuck type)

That’s just not historically accurate. King James didn’t remove books from the Bible. The 1611 King James Bible actually included those books, they were just placed in a separate section. Nothing was cut out there.

What happened later is Protestant publishers in the 1700s and 1800s started leaving those books out completely for cost and theological reasons. That wasn’t King James editing Scripture, it was later decisions by printers.

Also, the canon wasn’t decided in 1611. The Church had already recognized those books over a thousand years earlier at councils like Rome, Hippo, and Carthage. Those are the same books Catholics still have today.

So if anything, the real question is why later Protestants removed books that had been accepted for centuries… And on the “out of context” point, that goes both ways. If we’re talking context, then we have to read Scripture as a whole and how the early Church understood it, not just pull one verse and run with it.

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faithfully follows the mission he received from Christ to bear witness to the Gospel of peace.

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How is not speaking out against 40k plus people murdered in the streets bearing witness to the Gospel of peace?

What about all the Catholics being killed in Nigeria and Congo?

He’s not consistent in his messages.

It’s obvious there was a coordinated effort to attack Trump and turn Catholics away from him. Especially when the church in the USA is seeing record numbers of conservatives joining.

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Why does the Pope speaking out against your Idol trouble you so? Because it does, if you are gleeful because you think his tweets would keep the Pope up at night.

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It doesn’t bother me at all. When you have a high ranking official in the church that claims that the pope can’t be criticized for what he says because he is from the bible (when he wasn’t) I have a huge issue with that.

The cardinal is putting the pope and his word on a level of God and Jesus.

The pope is an infallible man. Nothing more.