Archbishop of Uppsala, Antje Jackelén meets with “Pope” Francis this week

WHO was it that said, “What God has torn asunder, no man can put together?” It’s true in the case of Lutheranism and the Catholic Church. The idea of these natural antagonists jointly commemorating the “Reformation” is obscene, an affront to those martyred in this conflict; it’s as absurd as Bolsheviks and monarchists jointly commemorating the Russian Revolution. The basic inference is that truth doesn’t exist.

Here are words from an actual pope on this important issue:

“It is therefore by force of the right of Our supreme Apostolic ministry, entrusted to us by the same Christ the Lord, which, having to carry out with [supreme] participation all the duties of the good Shepherd and to follow and embrace with paternal love all the men of the world, we send this Letter of Ours to all the Christians from whom We are separated, with which we exhort them warmly and beseech them with insistence to hasten to return to the one fold of Christ; we desire in fact from the depths of the heart their salvation in Christ Jesus, and we fear having to render an account one day to Him, Our Judge, if, through some possibility, we have not pointed out and prepared the way for them to attain eternal salvation. In all Our prayers and supplications, with thankfulness, day and night we never omit to ask for them, with humble insistence, from the eternal Shepherd of souls the abundance of goods and heavenly graces. And since, if also, we fulfill in the earth the office of vicar, with all our heart we await with open arms the return of the wayward sons to the Catholic Church, in order to receive them with infinite fondness into the house of the Heavenly Father and to enrich them with its inexhaustible treasures. By our greatest wish for the return to the truth and the communion with the Catholic Church, upon which depends not only the salvation of all of them, but above all also of the whole Christian society: the entire world in fact cannot enjoy true peace if it is not of one fold and one shepherd.”

 —- Pope Pius IX, Iam Vos Omnes, September 13, 1868

Pius IX

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NP writes:

Years ago, I remember reading an essay in The New Republic where a (I assume) leftist said he didn’t understand why opposed religious groups were so big on “dialogue.”  As he pointed out, people disagree and talking differences about doesn’t seem to bring people any closer.

So now the “pope” meets with a feminist “archbishop” of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.  A few years ago the church entered into a “joint decree on justification” with the World Lutheran Confederation which is made up of modernist Lutheran “churches.”  I didn’t know that “justification by faith” means it is okay to to engage in sodomy.  I doubt Luther would have advocated this.  For whatever Luther’s flaws, he didn’t preach “if it feels good, do it.”

How does this benefit anyone?

Let’s face it, if the “pope” said that we should use “BCE” and “CE” instead of “BC” and “AD” the “Catholic” Answers crowd would say this was the greatest ecumenical breakthrough in history.

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