tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post2140938324391418132..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: The sky is fallingPastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-30570762384326149082018-04-03T05:18:19.843-05:002018-04-03T05:18:19.843-05:00Benedict resigned because he did not want to be pe...Benedict resigned because he did not want to be perceived as too old to handle the priest sex scandals that he inherited from John Paul II. Hopefully, that sets a good precedent for other aging Popes.Ted Badjehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03220879004715648795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-28514517385453073202018-04-02T12:27:57.054-05:002018-04-02T12:27:57.054-05:00The Vatican is desparately backpedaling, but not o...The <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/03/29/0236/00512.html" rel="nofollow">Vatican is desparately backpedaling</a>, but not offering any alternative statement to replace the claim by Frankie the Antichrist, "<i>Non esiste un inferno, esiste la scomparsa delle anime peccatrci</i>." <br /><br />A few years ago <a href="https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/pope-on-prayer-rug.jpg" rel="nofollow">Pope Frankie also went to a mosque</a> in Turkey and prayed "<a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/pope-francis-prays-in-turkeys-mosque-head-bowed-toward-mecca-130449/" rel="nofollow">with his head bowed in the direction of Mecca</a>."<br /><br />Ever since 1839, when the Missouri Saxon Lutherans rowed one papist pretender across the Mississippi River and deposited him in Illinois, the non-episcopal Missouri Synod hasn't had a leader who claims to be the Lutheran equivalent of a pope. Recently, however, some have displayed the habit of referring to themselves as "Dr.", althugh they have no earned doctorate degree.Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.com