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Related: About this forumWhen you're staggering and ineffectual, blame the devil!
Beelzebub, you befuddling bastard!
Francis said the church should also be more aware of “its guilt, its mistakes and abuses.”
"[The church must be] saved from the attacks of the malign one, the great accuser and at the same time be made ever more aware of its guilt, its mistakes, and abuses committed in the present and the past," Francis said from his balcony in Rome, Reuters reports.
He implored Catholics worldwide to pray every day throughout October for the Church to prevail through the devil's assault.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/410401-pope-says-devil-trying-to-divide-attack-the-catholic-church
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uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Just to harm the Church. Nothing to do with the Cover-ups and the moving and promoting of those priests... absolutely nothing, I'm sure.
edhopper
(35,373 posts)believing in the literal devil.
no metaphor here, Satan as an actual being.
Yeah, progressive Church there.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Welcome to the 14th century.
Mariana
(15,318 posts)Believing in the literal God. No metaphor here, God as an actual being. I don't see much difference.
edhopper
(35,373 posts)literalist?
you think he believes in Adam and Eve, Noah?
Mariana
(15,318 posts)He probably picks and chooses which parts of it to literally believe, and which parts are "metaphors" or "allegories" or whatever. Just like every other Christian does.
edhopper
(35,373 posts)silly Pope.
3Hotdogs
(13,848 posts)Maybe still is. Where is Cardinal Vernon Law?
MineralMan
(148,463 posts)Voltaire2
(15,205 posts)I swear we’ve been told repeatedly that all the goofy bullshit is just metaphoric.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)with a side of hand-waving.