But Frances says often, we discussed this before I was Pope. If anything happened to change the vote in any way. No He wouldn't be. Just something I feel when He says this.
Pope Francis: “The next trip? John XXIV could do it» BREAKING NEWSRichard Breaking News 4 days ago 40 REPORT Listen to the audio version of the article “I am sure that John XXIV will go to Vietnam, this is certain that he will be there”, ironized Pope Francis when asked by journalists, during the return flight from Mongolia, about the possibility of his trip to Vietnam. “Vietnam – the Pontiff said – is one of the very beautiful experiences of dialogue that the Church has had in recent times”. “The parties – he continued – had the good will to understand each other, to seek a way forward even if there were problems”. According to Francis, “with Vietnam, sooner or later the problems are overcome. The president was with us, we spoke very freely”. “I am very positive about relations with Vietnam – the Pope reiterated -. A good job is being done, there is a good dialogue with them, they are very respectful. When a culture opens up, there is the possibility of dialogue, not if there is closure. And with Vietnam I will say that dialogue is open”. Mongolia, Pope returns to Italy: “Thanks for the generous hospitality” “Making trips for me now is not easy” Francis speaks of his difficulty in making apostolic journeys: “I tell you the truth: for me, making a journey now is not as easy as it was at the beginning. There are limitations, in walking, let’s see ”, Pope Francis replied, during the return flight from Mongolia, to a question from journalists about the trips he has planned. In addition to the one in Marseilles on 22-23 September (and perhaps Argentina at the end of the year), Francis only said: “Then there is someone in a small country in Europe, we are seeing whether to do it”. Naturally, there is no mention of a (slightly) possible trip to China, of course, which he would love to do. But Bergoglio relaunches the message to Beijing: “Relations with China are very respectful, I personally have great admiration”. Pope Francis said this when replying to journalists during the press conference on the return flight from Mongolia. About ‘Great Russia’ I was speaking in a cultural sense Then a comment on his phrases about Russia uttered a few days ago: “He may not have been happy, speaking of ‘great Russia’, not in a geographical sense but in a cultural sense, but what I was taught at school came to mind: Peter I, Catherine II…”. Thus, during the return flight from Mongolia, the Pope responded to the controversy surrounding his phrases about “great mother Russia”. “Which perhaps isn’t exactly right – he admitted -, for historians to tell us, but it was an addition that came to mind. But what I wanted to communicate is to take charge of one’s legacy”. https://news.italy24.press/news/838910.html
Pope Francis addresses the faithful in St Peter's Square POPE Pope renews invitation to Saturday’s Synod Vigil Speaking after his weekly recitation of the Angelus prayer, Pope Francis invites all Christians to join him and other Church leaders for a prayer vigil in St Peter's Square this coming Saturday. By Joseph Tulloch Pope Francis has reiterated his invitation to all Christians to attend the upcoming Synod prayer vigil in St Peter’s Square. Speaking after his weekly recitation of the Angelus prayer, the Holy Father said that “I renew my invitation to participate in the ecumenical prayer vigil entitled ‘Together’, which will take place next Saturday, the 30th September, in St Peter’s Square, in preparation for the Synodal Assembly which will begin on the 4th October.” Entrusting the Synod to the Holy Spirit Around 3,000 young people from 40 different countries are expected at the vigil, which will be held from 5 to 7pm on Saturday 30th October. Pope Francis will be joined by twelve representatives of various Christian traditions, including the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, and Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Speaking at a press conference in the Vatican earlier this month, Sr Nathalie Becquart, Undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod, said that the central goal of the vigil is to entrust the Synod to the Holy Spirit. At the same time, she said, it will demonstrate “commitment to unity and peace in this world torn apart by so many divisions“, as well as “the importance of prayer” for the unity of all Christians. 24 September 2023, 13:31 https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/...cis-together-prayer-vigil-synod-saturday.html
I hope the Holy Spirit shows up and that they let Him in. They are praying for it. What if He really answered their prayer and let His Fire fall? What a surprise for them!
‘It’s time to abolish celibacy,’ says president of Swiss Bishops’ Conference Swiss Bishop Gmur calls for end to celibacy in priesthood, women priests, a new sexual morality and greater regional independence https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/busine...esident-of-swiss-bishops--conference/48835488 At what point does he cease to be Catholic?
It sounds as if he has already ceased to be Catholic. Sadly the institutional Church does not have the courage or discernment to say so.
There is a prediction by St Brigid about a straw man who will sit as Pope. The Pope who wears a headdress. He will also be the one to abolish celibacy and he will have his entrails ripped apart etc. It's also in a book but it's very hard to find given it's truthfull view of what God will do to him. Does anyone know about this??
Something similar is said in Daniel, chapter 11, verse 37 (about Antiochus Epiphanes): 36 And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall be lifted up, and shall magnify himself against every god: and he shall speak great things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath be accomplished. For the determination is made. 37 And he shall make no account of the God of his fathers: and he shall follow the lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods: for he shall rise up against all things. 38 But he shall worship the god Maozim in his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not, he shall worship with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and things of great price. 39 And he shall do this to fortify Maozim with a strange god, whom he hath acknowledged, and he shall increase glory and shall give them power over many, and shall divide the land gratis. 40 And at the time prefixed the king of the south shall fight against him, and the king of the north shall come against him like a tempest, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with a great navy, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall destroy, and pass through. And here is the death of the same man (Antiochus Epiphanes) described in 2 Maccabees: 4 And swelling with anger he thought to revenge upon the Jews the injury done by them that had put him to flight. And therefore he commanded his chariot to be driven, without stopping in his journey, the judgment of heaven urging him forward, because he had spoken so proudly, that he would come to Jerusalem, and make it a common burying place of the Jews. 5 But the Lord the God of Israel, that seeth all things, struck him with an incurable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter torments of the inner parts. 6 And indeed very justly, seeing he had tormented the bowels of others with many and new torments, albeit he by no means ceased from his malice. 7 Moreover being filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding the matter to be hastened, it happened as he was going with violence that he fell from the chariot, so that his limbs were much pained by a grievous bruising of the body. 8 Thus he that seemed to himself to command even the waves of the sea, being proud above the condition of man, and to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, now being cast down to the ground, was carried in a litter, bearing witness to the manifest power of God in himself: 9 So that worms swarmed out of the body of this man, and whilst he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to the army. 10 And the man that thought a little before he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry, for the intolerable stench. Antiochus Epiphanes is a figure of Antichrist. Do we know of anyone with any kind of incurable bowel disease?
Reminds me of St Francis's prophesied "Destroyer" ascending the throne of Peter--not canonically Elected if I recall cortectly.
It's in Book 7, Chapter 6 of St. Brigid's Revelations (link St. Bridget (Birgitta) of Sweden - Prophecies and Revelations (saintsbooks.net) The Saint (quoting Our Lady) "Know this too: that if some pope concedes to priests a license to contract carnal marriage, God will condemn him to a sentence as great, in a spiritual way, as that which the law justly inflicts in a corporeal way on a man who has transgressed so gravely that he must have his eyes gouged out, his tongue and lips, nose and ears cut off, his hands and feet amputated, all his body's blood spilled out to grow completely cold, and finally, his whole bloodless corpse cast out to be devoured by dogs and other wild beasts. Similar things would truly happen in a spiritual way to that pope who were to go against the aforementioned preordinance and will of God and concede to priests such a license to contract marriage. For that same pope would be totally deprived by God of his spiritual sight and hearing, and of his spiritual words and deeds. All his spiritual wisdom would grow completely cold; and finally, after his death, his soul would be cast out to be tortured eternally in hell so that there it might become the food of demons everlastingly and without end. Yes, even if Saint Gregory the Pope had made this statute, in the aforesaid sentence he would never have obtained mercy from God if he had not humbly revoked his statute before his death.” (1) Virgin Mary speaks to St Bridget on Priestly Celibacy - YouTube
I can already imagine priests asking for prayers for the healing of a schism in the church during the liturgy. After two consecutive biennia of praying for the end of the pandemic and the end of the war in Ukraine, respectively, it seems to me that we will witness a tribulation more internal than ever in the church.
Dear forum members, I realise the attached commentary by His Excellency Bishop Schneider on the validity of the papacy of Pope Francis has been posted on this forum before. I cannot find it, and I have been deliberating on it, so I am re-posting the relevant link here: https://onepeterfive.com/bishop-athanasius-schneider-on-the-validity-of-pope-francis/ In the second sentence, Bishop Schneider comments on the validity of the election, stating: "The constant practice of the Church makes it evident that even in the case of an invalid election this invalid election will be de facto healed through the general acceptance of the new elected by the overwhelming majority of the cardinals and bishops." This seems to imply there have been invalid elections of popes in the history of the Holy Catholic Church, which were healed through the general acceptance by the cardinals and bishops. Does anyone know examples of an invalid papal election before the election of Pope Francis? God bless!
What Schneider says contradicts the current law of the Roman Catholic Church. In the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, the law that governs papal elections, it says the following: 76. Should the election take place in a way other than that prescribed in the present Constitution, or should the conditions laid down here not be observed, the election is for this very reason null and void, without any need for a declaration on the matter; consequently, it confers no right on the one elected. So who are you going to believe Auxillary Bishop Schneider or the plain words in the Apostolic Constitution promulgated and confirmed by two Popes (JPII and BXVI)?
