Pope Francis Continues with his "Innovations" in Church Teachings

 For readers who believe the rot that all religions are equally true, you may stop reading now.  However, I put the lie to the statement by pointing out that Christians believe that salvation comes through Christ alone.  Christ did everything necessary, and we just need to accept Him.  Buddhists believe that by meditating hard enough one can become as god.  Two very different ideas.  Note that in one case, God does everything necessary, while in the other, it is man who does the work.  .  

Raymond Ibrahim has a post today at the American Thinker entitled Pope Francis: 'There Is No Such Thing as Just War'.

Pope Francis, a leading advocate of Doormat Christianity, is at it again, trying to reverse nearly two millennia of Christian doctrine, by preaching total passivity -- even against violent aggression.

On March 18, 2022, Francis declared before an audience that “A war is always -- always! -- the defeat of humanity, always. We, the educated, who work in education, are defeated by this war, because on another side we are responsible.”

So far, all well and good, if only because such lofty but impotent words are expected. But then he went so far as to say that, “There is no such thing as a just war: they do not exist!”

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has written, in a round about way, that Pope Francis is an illegitimate occupant to the throne of Peter. But if Francis, or Bergoglio as Vigano insists, can simply change 2000 years of church teachings, the question may not be whether this particular pope is legitimately the "head of the Church," but maybe it is the office of the pope that is illegitimate? Martin Luther evidently thought so .

Luther thought the Bible should be the touchstone of Christian life and not the sayings of this or that Bishop or pope.  Too many practices of the Roman church have no basis in the Bible.  That was the point of the 95 Theses nailed to the Wittenburg Castle Church door. Luther wanted to start a debate with the idea of bringing the church back to the teachings of Christ.  Oh, and Luther was excommunicated by the pope; he didn't leave the church, the church left Luther.

Actually, a man making himself the arbiter of Christian dogma, rather than searching the Bible, the inerrant word of God, for what He has to say, is the original sin.  It was also a gross power grab by the Bishops of Rome.  We want to be as God.  Everyone.  This was what Luther, a doctor of the church realized.  Unfortunately, the temptation of power was too much for the pope to resist.  But many protestant faiths have succumbed to the same temptation, ordaining the gender confused and sanctifying abortion.

As an aside, Vigano has taken digs at Lutherans as being schismatics.  As I said before, Luther did not intend to split the church, the church did that to themselves.  But I Vigano betrays his hypocrisy in his letter of September 1, 2020 answering Mr. Kokx with What should Catholics do now? with reference to the modernists. Vigano tells faithful Catholics to resist the innovations of Vatican II. But this is what Luther suggested his flock do with regard to papal innovations. Oh well...

Go read the whole article.