The following is excerpted from “Pope Francis Criticizes,” Christian Headlines, Dec. 1, 2015: “Pope Francis has strictly denounced proponents of fundamentalism who claim that they possess ‘absolute truth.’ The Pontiff recently concluded his three-country tour of Africa, visiting the Central African Republic, Uganda, and Kenya. The Christian Post reports that during an in-flight press conference on his return trip to Rome, Francis stated, ‘We Catholics have some--and not some, many--who believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disorientation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because it is my Church.’ He added that ‘ideas and false certainties’ can replace faith, love, and God.” CONCLUDING NOTE: The confused pope needs to read the Bible, which never contrasts faith and love with doctrinal absolutes. The Psalmist represented the thinking of the true man of God when he said, “Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way” (Psalm 119:128). On his trip to Africa, the pope focused on unity between Christians and Muslims. He said that all “religious believers” need to “support each other as members of our one human family; for all of us are God’s children.” If this is true, we wonder why the Lord Jesus Christ said to some people, “Ye are of your father the devil” (John 8:44)? (Friday Church News Notes, December 11, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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