The first Pope was a married Priest

How can you say Pope Francis is a good guy when he covered up for McCarrick? Why is McCarrick still living inside an RCC facility? Why did Pope Francis cover up sex crimes in Argentina? Why is Pope Francis associated with the fascist Peronist party in Argentina? Why does Pope Francis hate the USA? Why does Pope Francis like communism?

 

Is it okay for female priests to be married?

 

As I understand several accounts tell how McCarrick was “expelled from the Priesthood” . Common sense dictates It is unlikely he would be permitted take residence in the Vatican.

After being found guilty in court, he was stripped of clerical titles, rights and resources including housing and any other financial benefit; his laicization is permanent. Pope Francis ordered McCarrick to a life of penance and prayer. He now lives in a Victoria Kansas religious house. What you should be asking is why isn't he in jail?

Is there a reason you want to scandalize Pope Francis, make him part of the guilt’s crimes. And I do believe you have exaggerated his time in Argentina; perhaps even putting him on the wrong side of the conflict. Furthermore, he joined his grandmother as a member of the Catholic Action which defended the Church against fascism.

Do you know what you’re talking about or does your faith consider malicious gossip is a virtue - especially if it is about a Catholic? At least give us the facts as reality presented them to us in history.

Consider if you will, Protestants (including reform, evangelical, and ‘independent’ - Bible only) religions consider themselves part of the universal priesthood; each and every one. Catholicism has a Sacramental priesthood . We know that 51% of the prison population in the US is Protestant while only 15% are Catholic. So, now let’s consider 10% of the population of prisoners has been convicted of sexual crimes; who has the largest population of priests that are sexual deviants or common criminals in prison, Protestants or Catholics? Do the math.

JoeT

 

I think the reason that McCarrick is not in prison is that the statute of limitations has worked in his favor. Pope Francis was aware that Pope Benedict had restrained McCarrick but sent him to China and Cuba anyway according to Vigano, who now is on hiding for fear of his life. I think that the RCC should have put McCarrick on the street in light of his refusal to shut up as he recently gave an interview to Salon.

Pope Francis has had a person from Buenos Aires ask him at the Vatican about coverups back home. There is a reason thar he has not gone home. There is no doubt that he is connected to the ruling fascist Peronist Party. I am not sure if he has ever condemned the Iranian terror attacks against Jewish buildings in Buenos Aires. I know that the Iranians give money to the Peronists such as Kirchner.

I am no more anti-Catholic than Life Site News or Church Militant or The Spectator or Michael Matt or Taylor Marshall or three or four of the dissident Cardinals. What I am is anti-communist and I learned of Pope Francis and his liberation theology and communist mentor Esther Ballestrino de Careaga from Catholic anti-communists.

I do not know what to think about your prison statistics. I want all homosexual preachers fired from the SBC and I want the police called on all child molesters. In some jurisdictions the police and clergy are in cahoots. Here in Indianapolis they had Tobin as Archbishop--why do they have homosexual archbishops? Also, Brebuf School in Indianapolis has a homosexual teacher. Why does a Jesuit school refuse to fire a homosexual teacher?

 

If we follow any man-made stuff, I don't know it.

We don't have music, not just no instruments, cuz we're a small church, & there aren't too many of us that have any musical talent, so we don't have a choir. And there are better uses for our limited funds than buying expensive instruments or a state-of-the-art sound system.

And it stands to reason that if Peter had a mother-in-law, he had a wife.

 

Still, no getting by the FACT that celibacy is a rule of MAN'S, not of GOD'S.

 

According to GOD'S rules, it's OK for ANY priest to be married.

 

I hope female clerics get a life and quit.

They say that part of the agenda of the current Amazon Synod at the Vatican in Rome is to allow for the ordination of women. I think that Pope Francis is going to flop with this expensive Amazon Synod. There is already widespread criticism of bringing in Amazon aborigines who probably wear blue jeans and t-shirts at home in the jungle and parading them around for photo-ops in feathered headdresses and never allowing them to speak. It seems as if it is exploitation of pagans for no good reason.

 

Smyth was first among the founders of the Baptist faith tradition, so you take you cues from him. Before he arrived no one called themselves "Baptists".

God Himself never commanded it, but the great evangelist St. Paul said it has it's place.

True. And then he left his wife. Personally, I would not have a problem with a married Latin Rite clergy as some Catholic clergymen are indeed married.

 

Who thinks that Peter was the first Pope?

 

Before my time there, our church was bull-blown, the whole 9 yards IFB. However, it began abandoning its stuff such as the KJVO myth, Now, it's only IFB in name only. We do NOT follow any MAN-MADE doctrines or rules of faith/worship.

And that same St. paul later said it was wrong to tell people not to marry. Your "church discipline" is man-made & therefore false.

Nothing says he left her. If he did, that was wrong.

 

RCs do. However, if he actually was, he didn't know it.

 

To which faith tradition are you posing this question? The Latin Rite nor any of the other orthodox faith traditions have women priests.

 

Yeah, just wondering what the Amazon Synod is going to do? It was shown today in Rome that 80% of the people in the Amazon live in cities and dress like people all over the world. Their major problems are drug addiction and abortion. They don't run around with feather headdresses like the ones flown to Rome for photo ops. The purpose of the Amazon Synod in part is to ordain women.