Andrew, I feel for you...glad not to have to deal with that mess (the swooning, extra traffic, etc).

I will admit I caught some mentionings of him, only because it happened to be part of the news I was trying to watch. I was disgusted with some of what I heard and saw. Him receiving a Seder platter (I would be offended if I were Jewish) and a woman commenting how wonderful (swoon) it is to get close to someone that is "sooo close to God in their daily life and prayers that they can attract the Holy Spirit" (gag...doctrine is so far off in left field...).

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"Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again." --Jack Kornfield

Red shoes?! Almost looks like they've been dipped in blood...

Well, in a sense, they have been...

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Todd K. Pedlar
member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
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"Many men, after a long conversion, see more of the workings of sin in their hearts than ever they did before or at their first conversion. Now, such men have not an increase of sin, but an increase of illumination and light" (Christopher Love)

I saw the end of the mass at St. Patrick's earlier today. Nuns and others were jumping out into the aisle and trying to touch him the way some would try to do with their favorite rock star or sports idol. Security kept knocking them back.

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"There never was a man in the world without a creed. What is a creed? A creed is what you believe. What is a confession? It is a declaration of what you believe. That declaration may be oral or it may be committed to writing, but the creed is there either expressed or implied."—B.H. Carroll

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My point

But it is the grand papal tradition:

"You know that I am the Holy Father, the representative of God on the earth, the Vicar of Christ, which means that I am God on the earth." -- Pope Pius XI

"There is no other Ceaser, nor king, nor emperor, than I, the Sovereign Pontiff and successor of the Apostles." -- Pope Boniface VIII

"He (the Pope] alone promulgates law. He alone is absolved from all law. He alone sits in the chair of St. Peter, not as mere man, but as man and God...His will is law; what he pleases has the force of law." -- Pope JohnXXII

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

Exactly.

Indeed... I suspect a touch of his robe is deemed to remit some portion of their purgatory sentences....

As Luther said,

"...the Pope is a heretic, an idolater, Antichrist, and the red whore reeking with the blood of the pious..."