Sentences with phrase «evience against the pope»

Shame that CNN focused on the comments by Rush rather than the many sane pundits who have come out against the pope.

An instance of Richelieu's nice distinction between the secular and ecclesiastical is that, at the same time he was gathering armies to wage war against the pope, he wrote the pope humbly asking for a dispensation from reading his daily office because of the pressing duties of military command.

This hugely successful play which triggered a tidal wave of controversy now appears to have been a part of a slander campaign originating in the Soviet block against a pope who was a determined enemy of communism in the West.

Luther spoke in 1537 of justification as the «first and chief article,» which can not be «given up or compromised,» for on it «rests all that we teach and practice against the pope, the devil, and the world.»

Carroll's treatment of Pius XII is particularly atrocious: Every discredited allegation against the pope ¯ from his alleged silence to his supposed failure to intervene against the Nazi roundup of Rome's Jews ¯ is repeated without qualification.

They say, in the words of Chillingworth, «There are popes against popes, councils against councils, some fathers against others, the same fathers against themselves, a consent of fathers of one age against a consent of fathers of another age, the Church of one age against the Church of another age:»... I shall admit that there are in fact certain apparent variations in its teaching... I shall attempt to explain them to the exculpation of that teaching in point of unity, directness, and consistency Introduction to the Development of Doctrine, 1846

I voice my opinion on Catholic websites all of the time and people get mad at me for speaking out against the pope's actions on this matter

A Vatican official said he believed the leak was an act of «sabotage against the pope».

Not exact matches

They were seduced, not by feminism» which the pope approves of, in the sense of the right of women not to be discriminated against» but by radical feminism.

Amid a groundswell against the cardinal, including rare public rebukes from some of his own priests, Law asked to resign and the pope said yes.

He wants YOU to stand against the wiles of Satan, and get rid of these «perfect popes» and priests, who hold the highest of places, and yet defile his very word, as they mo - lest little children.

Lapomarda's own work, along with that of the Israeli diplomat Pinchas Lapide, Three Popes and the Jews, and the eminent Jewish historian Jeno Levai, Hungarian Jewry and the Papacy, is a good place to start for a fair and sympathetic account of the Catholic side of the unrelenting and often bitter struggle waged during the war years against both Nazi and Stalinist forms of atheistic secularism.

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church councils.

i really don't understand you catholics - you worship the pope - isn't that against jesus» law??

The new pope, Pope Francis, says, «(Marriage Equality) is a destructive pretension against the plan of God.»

and the way the priests, pope and bishops dress draws toward themselves which Christ also warned against...

Were those Catholic bankers who charged non-excessive rates of interest before the popes reexamined the question really committing sins against nature?

Waldo's monastic lifestyle and ideas were similar to those of the pope's namesake, Francis of Assisi, but his insistence on preaching as a lay person, and on speaking out against the excesses of the church, got him excommunicated.

, and a little MORE time worrying about the crimes committed against children by priests, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and the pope.

This is exactly what the pope is preaching against.

Jesus was always against monetary inequality, and this is the first pope who seems to have understood that.

They rightly celebrated the current pope's fight against communism.

My piece was not a «lament,» but essentially a defense of Pope Benedict (as was my brief follow - up here) against just the type of over-the-top criticisms cited elsewhere in Allen's article, even as I raised one respectful question about the pope's prudential decision not to meet with leading dissidents — a legitimate, good - faith debate among sincere Catholics.

You defenders of religion keep some interesting company: Osama Bin LLaden, Iraninan Mullahs, Saudi Wahabists (who will cut your head off in public if you preach anything but Islam), Joe Smith who preached that black people did not have souls (the church changed it mind after the civil rights act and are now bigotted against gay people), the Taliban, the pope and his child rapists, ignorant & stupid evangelicals who think that revelations is a roadmap to the future.

The church and the pope are responsible for two murders of women who died because they needed an abortion in catholic countries (Ireland and The Dominican Republic) Just as you people cry out against «abortion» and then murder doctors and women and bomb clinics, I hope somebody will start crying out against your beloved «religious freedom» and then...????

Meanwhile, the pope's emissaries in Germany facilitated conspiracy against Hitler.

For Cornwall, Pius remains the pope who ignored the requests of some German bishops to speak out more publicly and strongly against the Nazi attack on the Jews.

The pope did the right thing by demeaning the perception that some people committed a crime against humanity by having Jesus die.

The pope here had in mind, particularly in Solicitudo Rei Socialis (1981), a defense of the intersubjective culture of Polonia against Communist attempts to suffocate it.

We do not need a religious war, or retaliation against any group for the death of a pope.

How ironic is it that Limbaugh would apply to this pope and his efforts the name of a man who once had the following to say about religion: «Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress.

Then, of course, there is a diatribe against Mel Gibson, who is falsely depicted as an eccentric who denies, inter alia, the legitimacy of the pope and whose film The Passion of the Christ «will try to revive the traditional charge of deicide against the Jews.»

The difficulty was, that to say so, even for a scientist with the factsat his fingertips, was to go against a powerful and intolerant conventional wisdom: «We liberals», he wrote, «who work in the fields of global HIV / AIDS and family planning take terrible professional risks if we side with the pope on a divisive topic such as this.

Msgr. Robert McElroy writes in America («Why We Must Withdraw from Iraq») that «the popes of the contemporary era have unequivocally taught that a presumption against war lies at the very center of Catholic thinking on war and peace.»

Whether Mr. Hollinger knows it or not, he and the pope are on the same side in contending against both ideological secularism and religious fideism.

For all I know, more actions may be forthcoming from the pope, especially if his Muslim critics initiate the next step in the process by prompt repudiation of recent Muslim violence against Christians.

Newman recounts his realization of this principle in the Apologia: «It was difficult... to find arguments against the Tridentine Fathers, which did not tell against the Fathers of Chalcedon; difficult to condemn the Popes of the sixteenth century, without condemning the Popes of the fifth.»

For example, I am prepared to acknowledge — as did Pope John Paul II — the wrongs committed in the Crusades against Jews, Eastern Orthodox Christians and Muslims by Christian princes and soldiers at the invitation of popes.

It was threatened by internal decay and by the still aggressive Ottoman Turks, loyal Moslems, who were more powerful than any single European state and against whom, in spite of the frantic efforts of the Popes, discordant Western Europe would not unite.

The pope visited Gabriele in prison «in order to confirm his forgiveness and communicate in person his decision to grant Mr. Gabriele's request for pardon, thereby remitting the sentence passed against the latter,» said a Vatican statement.

CNN: Vatican pledges legal action against Benetton over doctored pope - kissing - imam ad The Vatican will attempt legal action against the United Colors of Benetton over an ad featuring a doctored picture of the pope kissing a male Muslim cleric, the Holy See announced Thursday, one day after the ad was unveiled and then pulled.

The Scriptures, against their own will, intention, and warning, became the «paper pope» with the result that the present was sacrificed, immediacy in preaching was lost, and congregations became accustomed to being sacrificed weekly on the altar of «sacred history»

1 - assasination attempt against the Pope in Lebanon 2 - blame Hezbollah 3 - US accuses Iran for evil supporting Hezbollah's attempt to kill the pope 4 - gain global / Western sympathy, attack evil Iran

After that, there were a few instances when popes condemned the Atlantic slave trade for its cruelties; and in the 18th and 19th centuries, Protestant abolitionists in England and America produced theological arguments against slavery merely as such.

He accuses the Church of promoting the myth that Jews killed Christian children and used their blood to make matzos, but he fails to note that medieval popes, starting with Innocent IV, issued bulls protecting Jews against this slander.

While Dostoevsky would surely admire the papacy's stance against the encroachment of materialistic rationalism, his main problem with the pope was that he acted as a temporal lord rather than as the preacher of the Christ whose Kingdom is not of this world.

Pius IX... was also the pope who stated that slavery was a necessity and was not against either natural or divine law.

The pope is the head of the Church, and if he thinks Catholic nuns, in America or anywhere else, are advocating positions that are against the teachings of the Church, he has the authority and the responsibility to investigate and as needed to terminate anti-Catholic activities in the Catholic Church.

He charged against the authority of pope, cardinals, Church hierarchy and against the material wealth and corruption of the Church.

The pope's remarks outline an exception to the church's long - held policy against the use of artificial contraception, including condoms.