Philip, I don't know what the purpose of the message below was, but it is clearly not Catholic in it's contents: in that, it clearly says that our Holy Mother, the Church can has erred. R.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip" <joyphil@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ags@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <creation@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:37 PM Subject: [creation] more warnings. > Never was a truer word spoken about the modernist crisis. While we worry > about the creation of the world, perhaps we should give a thought for the > end of it. Though essentially for Catholics this does apply for the world > at large. Where you see Catholic, just substitute Christian. Philip. > "What is needed is not a different pope, but an essential change of mind, > what the Scriptures call metanoia. What good is a different pope, if the > people still serve false gods and justify the destruction of the Catholic > Church's Sacred Liturgy, Sacraments, doctrine, and morality? We can go the > way of Sodom and Gomorrah, or we can go the way of Nineve, change our > minds, and become Catholic again. > How quickly we forget! We heard the story of Nineve just two weeks ago, in > the traditional Prophecies read out on Holy Saturday. If you didn't attend > the Sacred Rites on that important day, refresh yourself by reading the > third chapter of the Book of Jonas in the Old Testament. > > It is up to us, not a pope. And it is clear that most of us have not > learned the lesson yet. As the ancient Greeks pithily put it: pathos, > mathos -- by suffering one learns. To purge herself, Holy Mother Church > needs a lot more learning, thus perforce more suffering, just as gold is > tested by the searing flame. " A Catholic Priest. > >