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Pope Reminds Faithful What Jesus Was Really About

calamity said:
Are you calling the Pope a non-Christian?
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I'm calling you a non-Christian. That is what I've understood from your previous posts. People make Jesus out to be some social reformer and in so doing ignore what he really came for. The redemption of sins and institution of His Church by which His grace would be dispensed via the 7 sacraments.
 
Logicman said:
That's something liberals hardly ever talk about when it comes to discussing Jesus - repentance. It's very clear in Luke 13:3 that unless a person repents of their sins, they will not enter into heaven.
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Matthew 25 also says that if one does not feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless and so on, they won't enter into heaven ... the 2 are both necessary.

Remember Jesus Mission statement he gave at the Nazareth Synagogue .... both, personal redemption, and social justice are necessary.
 
If the Pope really knew what Jesus was about or who He is, He and other Priests would not ask people to confess their sins to them, but instead, teach them to confess their sins directly to Jesus. No man can get to the Father without going through Jesus Christ. Food for thought,
 
Bryan said:
If the Pope really knew what Jesus was about or who He is, He and other Priests would not ask people to confess their sins to them, but instead, teach them to confess their sins directly to Jesus. No man can get to the Father without going through Jesus Christ. Food for thought,
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This is ignorant of early Church history.

Didache said:
"Confess your sins in church, and do not go up to your prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of life. . . . On the Lord’s Day gather together, break bread, and give thanks, after confessing your transgressions so that your sacrifice may be pure" (Didache 4:14, 14:1 [A.D. 70]).
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Iranaeus said:
"[The Gnostic disciples of Marcus] have deluded many women. . . . Their consciences have been branded as with a hot iron. Some of these women make a public confession, but others are ashamed to do this, and in silence, as if withdrawing from themselves the hope of the life of God, they either apostatize entirely or hesitate between the two courses" (Against Heresies 1:22 [A.D. 189]).
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Tertullian said:
"[Regarding confession, some] flee from this work as being an exposure of themselves, or they put it off from day to day. I presume they are more mindful of modesty than of salvation, like those who contract a disease in the more shameful parts of the body and shun making themselves known to the physicians; and thus they perish along with their own bashfulness" (Repentance 10:1 [A.D. 203]).
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Origen said:
"[A final method of forgiveness], albeit hard and laborious [is] the remission of sins through penance, when the sinner . . . does not shrink from declaring his sin to a priest of the Lord and from seeking medicine, after the manner of him who say, ‘I said, "To the Lord I will accuse myself of my iniquity"’" (Homilies on Leviticus 2:4 [A.D. 248]).
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