The uncertain and unclear voice is less appealing than the confident and clear one.
“Man reverted to Catholicism under Pope Benedict, now says ‘Rome is lost’ and praises Islam,” LifeSite News, June 10, 2021 (thanks to Tom):
An Anglo-Catholic religious revealed that a man who turned to Islam and then reverted back to Catholicism because of Pope Benedict XVI has once again embraced Islam because of his grievances with “Rome.”
“I gave pastoral care today to a Roman Catholic who had embraced Islam and returned to Catholicism due to the Papacy. He said, ‘that under Benedict XVI he saw genuine rules of play in a rudderless world’. Today he said that Rome is lost, and that the Qur’an is the road to truth,” tweeted Brother Seraphim Mary, OSF, who is a member of the Cisterian Order of the Holy Cross.
One Twitter user commented, “Fortunately, we don’t pick our Popes, we obey them”
Br. Seraphim Mary responded, “His point was more about providing clear doctrine, not blind obedience. The struggle seems rooted in needing an authority in matters of faith and morality in a time of mundane confusion.”…
CogitoErgoSum says
He should look to the words and actions of Christ and not to those of any Pope. Popes come and go but Christ is unchanging. I wonder what this man decided he did not like about the Christ of the Bible.
Nazarene says
Let us follow Jesus Christ our Lord and He is the only role model not one else.
mortimer says
The pope is (as Robert Spencer has said many times) a ‘blind guide’. The pope is leading his church into the ditch of believing Islam is a non-political faith that is not INTRINSICALLY DANGEROUS and the greatest risk to world peace.
The man who returned to Islam, may yet again decide to leave it. That is my prediction. Backward, counter-scientific, obscurantist Islam has nothing to offer the modern world.
Andrew Blackadder says
Every year more and more people are leaving the Church and returning to God… Lenny Bruce..
gravenimage says
“Allah” is not God.
maria says
Muslims are taught always to use takiya if it helps islam. Don´t accept any “conversion” to, Judaism, Christianity or other real religions from the muslims.
According to the devil´s law sharia they MUST lie and pretend that they are not muslims.
Get rid of them beat them and send them away . It would be good if they beat each eather
SKA says
Dear Maria: there are going to be people of insight and goodwill who escape from the grasp of Islam. Some of them may convert to Christianity while others opt instead to become freethinkers. Some of them, like Ibn Warraq, have become powerful critics of Islam. While it may be true that some purported ex-Muslims may seek to infiltrate the ranks of non-Muslims under false pretenses it makes no sense to reject all refugees from Islam based only k on n the suspicion that a few of them might be insincere. We have to treat people with civility and some presumption of sincerity unless and until our discernment detects inconsistencies in behavior that then warrant our caution.
gravenimage says
Good people do leave Islam. The idea that masses of Muslims are pretending to be apostates–something that Muslims punish with death–makes little sense.
Most people who leave Islam do so for good. There are *very* few like this case.
Then, the idea that Infidels go around beating Muslims is completely false. Just calumny.
Lavéritétriomphera says
He is inconsistent, he turns himself inside out until next time … He should meditate these words of the gospels John 18:38 Quid est veritas? https://biblehub.com/john/18-38.htm.
In the Roman Catholic religion, the pope is the Christ’s vicar and nothing more.
Kepha says
Quid est Veritas (John 18:38)–This should stand as a stern warning to us all. Pontius Pilate had the Truth, who was also the Way and the Life, standing right in front of him, yet missed it. Yet Pilate ordered Christ crucified. We do not know what ultimately happened to Pilate; he may have converted later on, or he may have gone down to death condemned. But he is remembered as the one under whom Christ suffered prior to his resurrection.
Dan says
For those here who STILL think Catholics have to “obey” the Pope, Catholic and not, that applies only when it comes to matters of the Faith; Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Birth, the Real Presence, and whatnot.
When it comes to things like social justice, climate change, Islam is a religion of peace, socialism is great, etc., WE CATHOLICS can tell the Pope to go take a flying leap.
Ecosse1314 says
+1
gravenimage says
Good points.
James Lincoln says
Correct, Dan.
From a Catholic “in remission”:
A Catholic should never let *any* Pope destroy their faith in Christianity.
And…
The Catholic Church does *not* have a “monopoly” on Christianity….
Kepha says
Frankie B. can take a flying leap right into the Tiber.
tim gallagher says
That evil, hate filled load of crap, the Koran, is the road to truth!!!. Seriously, what a fuckwit this person must be. This person is no loss to Christianity or any other decent religion if he can’t see how vile and evil the Koran, and, indeed, all of Islam is. A person has to have an evil mentality to read that hate filled book, the Koran, and come away from it believing that it has anything good to tell them.
Quazgaa says
Looking at Pope Francis I’m so happy I’m not catholic.
Infidel says
If he believes that the qur’an is the ‘road to truth’ (sic), doesn’t that for all practical purposes make him a muslim? Or does he have to recite the shehada for that to happen?
gravenimage says
Looks like he’s gone back to Islam again–*Ugh*.
gravenimage says
Ex-Muslim who became Catholic now says ‘Rome is lost, and the Qur’an is the road to truth’
…………….
A confused idiot. That the current pontiff is a fool doesn’t make the vicious Qur’an any more ‘truthful’.
Infidel says
Precisely! Logic eludes him!
BlackSabbath says
He might not be a confused idot. If one were a real pedophile (I am not saying he is one), one would have two choices — a church condemning you and prepared to send you to gallows, and an islamic mosque glorifying pedophilia, providing you even more and younger, and promising you 72 virgins after you go kaboom with a suicide belt. No pain!! Tons of dead infidels — and 72 virgins. What would you pick?
Halaku says
The contrasting wishy-washiness of the Vatican and the West in general against the singlemindedness of the global Islamic jihad can be explained by this quote of Bertrand Russell. “The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt”
sean anderson says
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
John says
We’ve got to get the word out that Francis is an anti-Pope because Pope Benedict is still alive.