As most of you know I am NOT a conspiracy buff. I think the simplest explanation for most things is usually the correct one.
This Pope is in very poor health and I don't doubt that he is miserable enough trying to carry out his duties that he would take this extraordinary step. Modern sensibilities do make their way into traditions and I bet this is the case.
You have to wonder how many Popes were either totally senile or so incapacitated that others were really running things behind the scenes. Perhaps he does not want to be one of those.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
As most of you know I am NOT a conspiracy buff. I think the simplest explanation for most things is usually the correct one.
This Pope is in very poor health and I don't doubt that he is miserable enough trying to carry out his duties that he would take this extraordinary step. Modern sensibilities do make their way into traditions and I bet this is the case.
You have to wonder how many Popes were either totally senile or so incapacitated that others were really running things behind the scenes. Perhaps he does not want to be one of those.
I hope you are right. There is no way to know for sure. I'd say there is a 50/50 chance either way. I never used to think conspiratorially until I lived through one myself. Now, I can't help but see that there is a chance that things are not always what they appear.
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Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
As most of you know I am NOT a conspiracy buff. I think the simplest explanation for most things is usually the correct one.
This Pope is in very poor health and I don't doubt that he is miserable enough trying to carry out his duties that he would take this extraordinary step. Modern sensibilities do make their way into traditions and I bet this is the case.
You have to wonder how many Popes were either totally senile or so incapacitated that others were really running things behind the scenes. Perhaps he does not want to be one of those.
I feel this way about our Supreme Court Justices. Some need to resign, I think at the age of 65!!
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
As most of you know I am NOT a conspiracy buff. I think the simplest explanation for most things is usually the correct one.
This Pope is in very poor health and I don't doubt that he is miserable enough trying to carry out his duties that he would take this extraordinary step. Modern sensibilities do make their way into traditions and I bet this is the case.
You have to wonder how many Popes were either totally senile or so incapacitated that others were really running things behind the scenes. Perhaps he does not want to be one of those.
Most likely true, most of the dire predictions of the RCC have come to nothing, in modern times at least.
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
Most likely true, most of the dire predictions of the RCC have come to nothing, in modern times at least.
speaking of the nonsense, isnt there supposed to be a black pope who is supposed to be the last good pope before the bad pope comes in as the Prophet of Revalations?
__________________ If I do something stupid blame the Lortab!
speaking of the nonsense, isnt there supposed to be a black pope who is supposed to be the last good pope before the bad pope comes in as the Prophet of Revalations?
Depends on which prophet was doing the profiting!! LOL
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
speaking of the nonsense, isnt there supposed to be a black pope who is supposed to be the last good pope before the bad pope comes in as the Prophet of Revalations?
Most likely true, most of the dire predictions of the RCC have come to nothing, in modern times at least.
In the old days an infirm Pope could just disappear behind the scenes but in this modern day of 24 hour media there is pressure for him to be both seen and heard. That is a lot to ask of an 85 year old man in extemely poor health.
BTW - The B&B we stayed at in Rome was in an apartment building across the street from the Vatican. We could look out our breakfast room window to the left and see straight across into the Papal apartments.
The wall around the Vatican is massive. Where we were at it was probably 20 feet tall or more with security cameras every few feet.
When we took that special archelogical tour we got to go through a gate and into an area not open to the public. The Swiss guards that let us in and that we spoke to looked like their uniforms were designed by Elton John.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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