Nancy Pelosi was barred from receiving the Jesus wafer by the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco because of her support of abortion, but she still considers herself a devout Catholic. After an attacker seriously injured her husband at their SF home last October, Pelosi called in Catholic priests to “exorcise the evil spirits,” but who was going to exorcise the priests’ false gospel? Catholicism is a syncretization of pagan superstition and pseudo-(c)hristianity.
I would never recommend anyone attend a Roman Catholic mass, where its claimed that priests transform bread wafers and wine unto the actual body and blood of Christ, and the Jesus elements are then offered up as a sacrifice for sins. However, if you were to attend a mass you might be surprised that the sermon (aka homily) is usually only around 10 minutes long with the rest of the time devoted to the rote liturgy. Homiletics are not a focus in Catholic seminary. Priests, from my subjective experience, are generally not good public speakers. The homily message is usually connected to the short snippet of the gospel passage that was previously read, whereby the priest will exhort the congregants to live morally upright lives in pursuit of their salvation. There’s no mention of the genuine Good News! Gospel of salvation by God’s grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone.
German cardinal, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, has emerged as progressive pope Francis’ most vocal conservative critic. Müller compares Francis’ secret 2018 Vatican-Beijing accord, in which Bergoglio granted the Chinese communist government the power to select puppet bishops from its quisling Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, to a deal with Adolf Hitler. Actually, pope Pius XII did sign a deal with Hitler as historian David I. Kertzer discovered from documents in the previously sealed Vatican archives (see here).
- Catholic priest ‘threw lockdown sex party in empty cathedral with drag queen’
- In a posthumous book, pope Benedict denounces gay clubs and porn films at Catholic seminaries
Roman Catholic seminaries and rectories are magnets and hot-house incubators of deviancy and debauchery. Catholic and secular sources have estimated 30-40% of Catholic priests are homosexual. 80% of the victims of priest sexual abuse cases that have been documented since the 1950s were male.
We probably won’t see the official full-acceptance of practicing S&G-ites by the RCC during Francis’ tenure, but the pope is strategically getting all the ducks lined up in a row.
The German Catholic Synodale Weg (Synodal Path), a four-year progressive reform initiative steered by liberal clerics and laypersons, concludes this year. Some conservatives anticipate a schismatic split. Reforms being proposed include women’s ordination, married priests, lay participation in selection of bishops, and the blessing of same-sex unions and revision of the catechism currently disallowing homosexual practice.
Matthew Clark was Catholic bishop of Rochester, N.Y. from 1979 to 2012. Clark was a Vatican II progressive and looked the other way when liberal priests offered Jesus wafers to non-Catholic attendees at wedding and funeral masses. In a March 2020 bankruptcy court deposition, Clark admitted the diocese kept secret archives of pedophile priests and that priests accused of sexual abuse were allowed to continue to “serve,” sometimes moved from parish to parish.
“Progressive” evangelical pastors, like Andy Stanley, are advocating for full-acceptance of practicing S&G-ites. Yes, this “inclusive and affirming” mindset is creeping into evangelical churches.
For a thorough evaluation of Stanley’s latest heresy, see here.
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I’m so sad about the scandal surrounding Saint Mary’s Catholic Cathedral in Newcastle-upon-Tyne which occurred during the lockdown. For some reason, we don’t expect to hear of such things going on close to home. There was also a scandal some years ago in one of our local Anglican churches when one of the deacons was found to be a paedophile. When I think back to my Sunday School days and how much I loved to be there, I feel disturbed at how things are turning so evil. You’d think in this day and age, with so many rigorous background checks that people would be safer.
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Lesley, it’s all very sad. The Catholic priests at my parish and its grammar school never made advances towards me or my classmates that I know of, but even as a child I knew they were not “normal” men as I knew men from my family and neighborhood. However, at my Catholic high school, there were a number of Irish Christian Brothers who we students knew were predators (one solicited me indirectly), which was borne out by lawsuits decades later. At the time we amazingly laughed it off. It was just the way it was. Paedophilia obviously isn’t restricted to Catholic clergy, but the church’s mandatory celibacy rule seems to have especially attracted and fostered deviency. The RCC knew about its paedophile priest problem way before the 2002 Boston scandals, but never seriously addressed it. It’s always thought in terms of damage control and cover-up.
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I’ve been told that the mandatory celibacy was introduced so that the children of priests wouldn’t inherit property. Do you happen to know if there’s truth to that?
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Yes, I have read that one of the main reasons for mandatory clerical celibacy was to remove the possibility of children inheriting property. The Second Lateran Council (1139) formally made clerical celibacy mandatory, although popes had been pushing for the rule prior to that.
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That’s interesting. Thanks for the clarification 😊 I was trying to Google it but kept getting websites like Quora. Or sites that only said it was to focus on Jesus or live like Jesus. (They missed the mark a little on that one, eh?)
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Sure! For the RCC it’s always been control of the many by the privileged few.
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Absolutely, this kind of sin is all around ,and I agree that a mandatory rule of celibacy is just wrong. It’s not how God wanted us to live. I know Paul said the freedom of being unmarried would help focus on the goal of spreading the Gospel, but I think he left it as a choice for one to make themselves.
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Hi Tom. I saw the Andy Stanley excerpt a few days ago. Absolutely pathetic!
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Thanks, David. “Absolutely pathetic” is right. We couldn’t imagine apostle Paul giving that sermon. This “issue” is going to split “evangelicalism” in two.
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Hi brother. Great roundup as usual. I live in Atlanta and I familiar with both Charles and Andy. It is sad to see Andy go down this path. This issue is splitting all protestant churches as we have recently seen with the Methodists. I pray for Andy.
Blessings!
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Thanks, Michael. Yes, this issue is going to split “evangelicalism.”
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Will read this after youth group
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Just saw this: https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-gay-rights-ap-interview-1359756ae22f27f87c1d4d6b9c8ce212
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Thanks, Michael. Yup, that’s the same article I included in my roundup post.Francis is setting the stage to making the RCC inclusive and affirming.
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Andy Stanley has infuriated me for years, I am no longer surprised by anything that he says. I pray for people to leave his “church” and find a real Bible teaching church!!!
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Thanks, Mandy. I concur. It’s difficult to imagine how any believer who reveres God’s Word could voluntarily sit under Stanley’s teaching.
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1.) Pelosi’s seeking Catholic Exorcism seems to show she’s more lost than most Big Eva realizes…
2.) “y. Priests, from my subjective experience, are generally not good public speakers. ” I agree! And my sample size is small but you confirmed it!
3.) This pope is so pro alphabet soup
4.) Andy Stanley also getting worst!
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Thanks for the comments!
RE: Pelosi
It’s such a huge dichotomy, to support unrestricted abortion on one hand, but seek the assistance of shaman exorcists on the other.
RE: Catholic homilies
The priest who presides over my childhood parish reads his 8-minute Sunday homily word-for-word from his prepared paper (I’ve listened to a few podcasts). Including the fact that he preaches a lifeless false gospel, he’s duller than watching grass grow.
RE: Francis and S&G
He’s working hard for affirmation.
RE: Stanley
Looks like he wants to be the first big name pastor to “break the pink ceiling.”
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Wow that must really be bad to still fail to get attention to an 8 minute sermon; think I rather be a baptist for the preaching dynamic alone (of course ultimately for the right teaching)
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I can vividly recall going to a Gospel church for the first several times after leaving the RCC and accepting Christ and hearing genuine Gospel preaching. I was so joyful. Even though it was IFB with all of its issues, it was like finding an oasis with cool well water after trudging 100 miles through the desert.
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Praise God He led you away from Catholicism
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Thanks, Jimmy, and praise God he led you out of atheism!
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God is gracious
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Good points in this Round Up Tom. Just want to mention, re Andy Stanley, pandering and compromise are lucrative strategies. He’s worth almost 50 million. He has the quintessential “itchy ears” following of 40,000 people.
He will answer for everyone one of them.
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Thanks, Lisa Beth. I was wondering who was going to be the first “big name” pastor to push “affirmation.” I should have guessed it was going to be Stanley.
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In my experience most of the homily’s (sermons 😬) consisted of books they read, quotes from men they liked, or about the dead saint of the week we were praying to, etc… Once in awhile a gospel message would be given. Which usually contradicted what the cult was teaching us! Confusion. Which God is NOT the author of!!
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Right, Beth. The priest would give morality lessons, but it was like putting a band-aid on cancer. The remedy for the overriding sin problem, trusting in Jesus Christ as Savior by faith alone, was not in their repertoire.
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And 😳😳😳on Andy Stanley!!!
😳😳😳😳💔
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It boggles my mind that 40,000 people sit under that Bible-denier’s heresy every Sunday and tens of thousands more throughout the country admire and follow him.
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I also meant to ask but ran out of time. On that Twitter video, what does he claim “the church” is doing to gay people? Not accepting them? I’m pretty sure that if they walk into most churches, they will be welcome. I was welcomed into church before I was married but was co-habiting with my boyfriend (now husband) and I understood they absolutely had no obligation to accept what I was doing. (Welcome yes, accept everything no.) Or is he saying “the church” is doing something else to gay people?
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Thanks, Yari. Your comment is a good addition to the discussion about Stanley. You’re absolutely right. The church should/must welcome everyone and encourage everyone to trust in Jesus Christ as Savior, but not condone/affirm sinful behavior. The old saying is “love the sinner, hate the sin.” So we welcome practicing gay people to church to hear the Gospel, but we would not grant them (or unmarried cohabitating heterosexuals) membership or put them in leadership positions because it’s an ongoing, unrepentant sinful lifestyle. Stanley affirms practicing homosexuals for membership and leadership.
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I see. Well, that sounds about right. That’s how Christianity has always been, and to demand that Christians go against the Bible is selfish and ignorant.
I wasn’t sure if he meant other things were happening, because I don’t get to browse the internet or see too much of the news these days. Sounds like the usual “fear of being cancelled before fear of God” that’s so prevalent these days, IMHO. Thanks!
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I’m not a follower of Charles Stanley, but I wonder what he thinks about the proclamations of his son, Andy Stanley.
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I googled the topic and couldn’t find anything recent, but I suspect from a flurry of 2015 articles that Charles and Andy don’t see eye to eye on this “issue.”
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Thank you for another informative update, Tom. After ignoring many posts I’ve seen about the latest comments by Andy Stanly, I figured I should know what’s going on as that “church” is one of the largest in the U.S.
In recent years, Andy Stanley has been as clear as mud to me. I watched both the short and long video you’ve shared here and I’m not surprised that he has once again made confusing and conflicting comments. He is very good at it. You can pull different sentences out of this statement to take just about any position on this subject. In this way, he reminds me very much of the Pope except the Pope comes across as more coherent. The RCC is so wrong on many important things but I find its theology clearer than Stanley’s. In both cases, the importance of scripture is becoming more irrelevant all of the time.
My understanding is that these comments were made to a group of pastors and, at the end of one very odd video clip, clapping is audible. It is another sad sign of the times and if I were one of the roughly 40,000 people who attend that church’s eight locations, I would have been gone long ago.
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Thanks, Chris. As you mention, Stanley is somewhat circumspect about where he’s headed, but I think objective observers can deduce he’s pressing for affirmation of practicing gays as members and leaders.
Yes, Francis is bending/changing some RC doctrines via guile and craftiness.
It boggles my mind how any born-again Bible believer can sit under the teaching of Andy Stanley.
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You’re welcome, Tom, and thanks for the reply. It does seem like Stanley is heading towards affirmation of practicing gays when he calls them more faithful than straight Christians. With you, mind mind is boggled as well that Stanley keeps packing them in.
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