Pope launches team to ‘re-evangelise’ the West
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Posted by John under: False Prophets
The Pope launched a team to stem the secularisation of Catholic countries and “re-evangelise” the West.
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False Proplets
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
—Matthew 7:15
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try•Strongs 1381: dokimazo, dok-im-ad´-zo; from 1384 ;to test (literally or figuratively); by implication, to approve: — allow, discern, examine, x like, (ap-)prove,
•Strongs 1384: dokimos, dok´-ee-mos; from 1380; properly, acceptable (current after assayal), i.e. approved: — approved, tried. the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
—1 John 4:1
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
2Corinthians 11:3
Benedict XVI announced the creation of a new Vatican department dedicated to tackling what he called “a grave crisis in the sense of the Christian faith and the role of the Church.”
He expressed deep concerns that previously staunch Catholic countries in Europe and North America were facing “the eclipse of a sense of God”. Tens of thousands of worshippers are deserting the Church over issues such as clerical sex abuse and the ban on married priests.
“I have decided to create a new body with the aim of promoting a renewed evangelism,” in countries that are going through “progressive secularisation of society”, the 83-year-old Pope said.
The new department, to be called The Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation, will try to reinvigorate belief among Catholics in rich, developed countries – or, in the pontiff’s words, “find the right means to re-propose the perennial truth of the Gospel.”
It is expected to be led by an Italian archbishop, Rino Fisichella, who as head of the Pontifical Academy for Life is the Vatican’s top bioethics official.
Congregations in the West have fallen dramatically and faith in the Church has been hard hit by a series of high-profile scandals involving the sexual abuse of children by paedophile priests.
The Vatican, together with senior Church leaders in individual countries, has been accused of ignoring or actively covering up sex abuse cases in the United States, Australia, Germany, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Austria.
The Pope himself has been accused of turning a blind eye to paedophile priest cases when he was Archbishop of Munich and then head of the Vatican’s office for doctrinal enforcement.
The Pope made an official visit to Portugal last month, but barely 20 per cent of the population in the formerly staunchly Catholic country regularly attends church and the average age of priests is 62.
Austria – once seen as a bulwark against the Protestant Reformation and a stronghold of Catholicism in central Europe – is witnessing a particularly strong push for a more liberal Church, partly in response to the paedophile sex abuse scandal.
The Austrian Church has estimated that up to 80,000 of the country’s 5.5 million Catholics could leave the church this year a new record.
In Britain there are about six million Catholics – one in ten of the population – but only around a million say they go to Mass every Sunday.
Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the President of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, said he looked forward to co-operating with the new body.
“This initiative identifies a challenge with which many in the Catholic Church, and many in other Christian communities, are familiar,” he said.
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Ernest Gregoire says Comment posted on July 05th, 2010
The Roman Catholic Church, (RCC) is diametrically opposed to the bible, therefore it is NOT Christian!
It uses Christian symbols and jargon but that’s pretty much where the similarity ends. Portugal and Spain were intimately involved in the Spanish Inquisition. Contrary to RCC propaganda, the Inquisition was orchestrated by the Vatican and its henchmen that used secular authorities (under the threat of excommunication) to systematically murder in the cruelest of ways, torture, and maim Christians and Jews.
Cannon Law which permitted this, is still on the books and upheld by Vatican Council’s 1 and 2 have never been changed or properly apologized for.
Sex scandal aside, why would anyone want to cling to an organization that killed 15 million people over a 600 year time span?
And for the ‘That was then, this is now’ crowd, is 1991 recent enough for you? That’s when forced conversions or death were imposed upon Muslims in Croatia. This was done again, under the watchful RCC in Catholic Churches.
The RCC is not simply bleeding, it is hemorrhaging!
The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.
When I saw her, I wondered greatly.
(Rev 17:4-6 NASB)
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
(Rev 18:4-5 NASB)
Joe says Comment posted on July 06th, 2010
Amen Ernest! 1930′s Germany & Austria were 90-95% Catholic, nuff said!