{"id":226,"date":"2014-08-19T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=226"},"modified":"2014-08-19T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T19:45:08","slug":"random-thoughts-catholic-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts &#8211; Catholic Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Does the Pope make any distinction in his mind between something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/aboard-papal-plane-pope-francis-backs-intervention-in-iraq?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NCRegisterDailyBlog+National+Catholic+Register#When:2014-08-18%2018:44:01\" target=\"_blank\">he thinks<\/a> and something that is more or less a Papal pronouncement? Is it just war teaching that use of force can never be unilateral, or that it must always be kicked to the corrupt U.N.?<\/p>\n<p>Will the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/korean-nuns-voice-joy-gratitude-for-audience-with-pope-71754\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29&amp;utm_term=daily+news\" target=\"_blank\">shameless pope-worship<\/a> out of the Catholic Press, the bishops, and token religious never stop?\u00a0 How could meeting the Pope, make your life, or move you, give you strength, and give you energy &#8220;like a motor?&#8221; What is he, God?\u00a0 I get worn out just looking at his picture.<\/p>\n<p>Is ISIS Islam just a weird sex fiend cult?\u00a0 How do you capture and circumcise grown men and pretend it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2014\/08\/islamic-state-forcibly-circumcises-christian-men-sells-700-yazidi-women\" target=\"_blank\">virtuous<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Is it completely evil now to think of living and dying outside the Faith as <a href=\"http:\/\/mundabor.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/18\/confusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">renouncing Heaven<\/a>? How can one pretend this isn&#8217;t Catholic teaching, unless of course you&#8217;re just trying to make doomed Protestants out of all of us? Misery loves company they say. The structure of the Faith collapses when you fail to proclaim union with the Church free of heresy or mortal sin.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t is nice that China likes the Pope and let&#8217;s him fly over it&#8217;s airspace?\u00a0 I sense <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2014\/08\/19\/pope-francis-says-wants-dialogue-with-china-religous-freedom-for-its-catholics\/\" target=\"_blank\">dialogue <\/a>coming.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t anyone care that Liberation Theologists are <a href=\"http:\/\/eponymousflower.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/pope-to-beatify-archbishop-romero.html\" target=\"_blank\">Communists<\/a>, that the Pope shares their vision, and that he&#8217;s making saints that aren&#8217;t so saintly?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Does the Pope make any distinction in his mind between something he thinks and something that is more or less a Papal pronouncement? Is it just war teaching that use of force can never be unilateral, or that it must always be kicked to the corrupt U.N.? 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