Why would the Pope, let alone any church or religious leader, make a comment calling themself the devil? The article frames the comment as Francis comparing himself to John Paul and paying homage to how great he was. Even if that was the case, it's a really weird and twisted comment to make. Is he telling us something? Or does he just not take his religion seriously?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-pope-francis-arrives-lithuanian-capital-094720958.html
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EffYouJohnPodesta ago
One time I stumbled on a video of a mass, and it had supposed translations of the song that was being sung in Latin. The song was all about Lucifer. They weren't praying to God, they were singing praises to actual Lucifer. I don't know for sure that the translation was accurate but I think I looked up some of the words at the time, and it looked to be accurate. I took Latin so I was familiar enough with it to check into it.
Shizy ago
I saw that too. It was really disturbing! I was raised Catholic and always questioned the church once I began reading the Bible instead of listening to pedos in dresses to tell me about God. They are a cult and have so many pagan influences. I try to tell my friends and family who are still catholic and they're too brainwashed to see it.
EffYouJohnPodesta ago
Yeah I just don't bother any more, it makes them hate me too much. I think most of them are probably saved so they'll have to eventually find out on their own what idol worship really means.
Shizy ago
Oh wow! He made it far up. I knew several masons years ago. They were low level and thought it was fun and saw it as a social club. They were also catholic!
HennyPenny ago
Those "Catholics" weren't much Catholic to be in the Masons. It's forbidden for a Catholic to join the Masons, that's why we have Knights of Columbus. Closet Masons in the Catholic hierarchy are part of the problem we're having today.
Masons drove the Church out of France during the French Revolution. In the Papal constitution Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo (1821) Pope Pius VII linked the anticlerical Italian secret society, the Carbonari to Freemasonry.In 1830s Portugal Masons were the principal promoters of anticlericalism, In Mexico after the 1910 Revolution Catholic clergy were increasingly stigmatized as collective enemies of the Revolution. They were fined if they wore the cassock. In the French Revolution priests were exiled or killed. "an atheist Cult of Reason was inaugurated, all churches not devoted to that cult being closed.[3] In In 1794, the atheistic cult was replaced with a deistic Cult of the Supreme Being.[3] When anticlericalism became a clear goal of French revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries seeking to restore tradition and the Ancien Régime took up arms, particularly in the War in the Vendée (1793 to 1796).https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Anti-clericalism.html "Many of the army were freemasons,election committees created by these rules are claimed to have been mainly composed of freemasons. " Masonic website discussing French revolution http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/revolution.html
"The 1983 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's (CDF) Declaration on Masonic associations, states that "faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion" and membership in Masonic associations is prohibited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_ban_of_Freemasonry
EffYouJohnPodesta ago
Yeah most of them seem to be in it for the favors. My grandpa was the mayor and owned the newspaper and the cable company and a dealership in town. Small town = easy way to be at the top of the chain.
Shizy ago
Big fish in a little pond syndrome!