Lest you think that this Bergoglio only betrayed the faithful Catholics in Courage and those such as Joseph Sciambra, how about the fact that he praised Martin Luther!
In the rest of that disgusting, rambling, incoherent, offensive and pathetic bile on the interview back from Armenia there was even this praise of that filthy heretic who caused the loss of tens of millions of souls into Hell.
Now, this Bergoglio praised him, along with sodomites, as he warms up for his trip to Sweden. What more idiocy can this man say on his next plane trip home from somewhere.
In the rest of that disgusting, rambling, incoherent, offensive and pathetic bile on the interview back from Armenia there was even this praise of that filthy heretic who caused the loss of tens of millions of souls into Hell.
Now, this Bergoglio praised him, along with sodomites, as he warms up for his trip to Sweden. What more idiocy can this man say on his next plane trip home from somewhere.
Where are the cardinals and bishops who will find the courage to call this man a danger to the faith and a heretic?
Kleinjung: Too much beer … Holy Father, I
wanted to ask you a question. Today you spoke of the gifts of the shared
Churches, of the gifts shared by the Churches together. Seeing that you will go
in I believe four months to Lund for the commemoration of the 500th anniversary
of the reformation, I think perhaps this is also the right moment for us not
only to remember the wounds on both sides but also to recognize the gifts of
the reformation. Perhaps also – this is a heretical question – perhaps to annul
or withdraw the excommunication of Martin Luther or of some sort of
rehabilitation. Thank you.
Pope Francis: I think that the intentions of
Martin Luther were not mistaken. He was a reformer. Perhaps some methods were
not correct. But in that time, if we read the story of the Pastor, a German
Lutheran who then converted when he saw reality – he became Catholic – in that
time, the Church was not exactly a model to imitate. There was corruption in
the Church, there was worldliness, attachment to money, to power...and this he
protested. Then he was intelligent and took some steps forward justifying, and
because he did this. And today Lutherans and Catholics, Protestants, all of us
agree on the doctrine of justification. On this point, which is very important,
he did not err. He made a medicine for the Church, but then this medicine
consolidated into a state of things, into a state of a discipline, into a way
of believing, into a way of doing, into a liturgical way and he wasn’t alone;
there was Zwingli, there was Calvin, each one of them different, and behind
them were who? Principals! We must put ourselves in the story of that time.
It’s a story that’s not easy to understand, not easy. Then things went forward,
and today the dialogue is very good. That document of justification I think is
one of the richest ecumenical documents in the world, one in most agreement.
But there are divisions, and these also depend on the Churches. In Buenos Aires
there were two Lutheran churches, and one thought in one way and the other...even
in the same Lutheran church there was no unity; but they respected each other,
they loved each other, and the difference is perhaps what hurt all of us so
badly and today we seek to take up the path of encountering each other after
500 years. I think that we have to pray together, pray. Prayer is important for
this. Second, to work together for the poor, for the persecuted, for many
people, for refugees, for the many who suffer; to work together and pray
together and the theologians who study together try...but this is a long path,
very long. One time jokingly I said: I know when full unity will happen. -
“when?” - “the day after the Son of Man comes,” because we don’t know...the
Holy Spirit will give the grace, but in the meantime, praying, loving each
other and working together. Above all for the poor, for the people who suffer
and for peace and many things...against the exploitation of people and many
things in which they are jointly working together.
