Tuesday, November 12, 2013

VATICAN CHOOSES US PRAGMATIC BISHOPS

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN

REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

11/12/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

U.S. bishops adjust to Francis by choosing pragmatic leaders

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Joseph Edward Kurtz
Joseph Edward Kurtz

Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville has replaced Timothy Dolan as president of the US Bishops' Conference. He was elected at a bishops' assembly in Baltimore

John Allen jr * Rome  
Catholic bishops in the United States, who are perceived in recent years to have moved somewhat to the right, today find themselves coming to terms with a Pope whose words and deeds have emboldened the Church’s progressive wing. Logically speaking, that seems to present the American bishops with three core options:- Resistance, pushing back against the new papal line.- - Adjustment, not watering down their pro-life concerns or vigilance about orthodoxy, but locating those matters within the new vision presented by Francis.·  
- Capitulation, utterly overhauling their priorities and ways of doing business to satisfy popular expectations of the ‘Francis effect.’In effect, at their Nov. 11-14 meeting in Baltimore the bishops appear to have chosen the middle path. By electing Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville as the conference president, replacing the charismatic Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, the bishops chose a centrist known both as a champion of the church’s pro-life teachings but also a flexible pragmatist capable of adjusting course in light of the new direction being set in Rome.The bishops also turned to Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston as their vice-president, electing him by 147-87 votes over Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia. Chaput is seen as the leader of the American church’s conservative wing, and his election likely would have been interpreted in media circles as a vote for resistance to the moderate line associated with Pope Francis.
In reality, however, many bishops may have chosen not to vote for Chaput to spare him the burden, since the financial and administrative situation in his Philadelphia archdiocese is widely perceived as among the most challenging facing any American prelate.Kurtz, 67, was born in Pennsylvania and served as a priest in the Diocese of Allentown. Aside from the usual studies in theology, Kurtz also earned a master’s degree in social work. He served as a teacher and a pastor before being named Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1999. 
Transferred to Louisville in 2007, Kurtz earned a reputation as an effective administrator and a gregarious personality, which positioned him to play a leadership role beyond the boundaries of his archdiocese. He was named the head of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Marriage and Family Life, and was elected vice-president of the conference in 2010.In his role as head of the family life committee, Kurtz was often called upon to comment on debates over gay marriage, always staunchly defending church teaching. In 2010, for instance, he said that legalizing gay marriage would represent the same “stain” on American’s conscience as the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision of the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing abortion.Because of that reputation, critics such as the liberal activist group Catholics United termed Kurtz a “culture warrior” associated with “divisive, right-wing social issues” and delivered a petition in Baltimore with 32,000 signatures urging the bishops to pick someone else.Most Catholic insiders, however, do not see Kurtz in those terms. Instead, they view him as a solidly orthodox yet practical leader.In 2011 and 2010, for instance, Kurtz signed off on a complex merger of three health care systems in Kentucky, including a Catholic system, allowing one of the previously independent hospitals to continue to operate a “Center for Women and Infants” offering birth control and tubal ligations. He said at the time he was satisfied that no Catholic facility would be involved in those procedures and that Church teaching had been upheld.Kurtz also was not among the American bishops who publicly threatened to deny communion to pro-choice Catholic politicians, saying instead that “the proper moment to deal with that is in personal conversation, giving that particular politician the opportunity to help shape his or her conscience.”As the head of a local church, Kurtz has won high marks. While he was still in Knoxville, the diocese topped a ranking of American dioceses by Crisismagazine
based on numerical criteria such as active priests, vocations, and adults received into the church. After just a year in Louisville, he launched an aggressive stewardship campaign with a goal of raising $66 million to foster “vibrant parishes.”In a 2010 interview with the National Catholic Reporter, Kurtz laid out his pastoral vision vis-à-vis debates over Vatican II.The church, he said, must maintain “the distinctive things about the Second Vatican Council, which we in no way want to lose, but without this sense that we found ourselves at a cliff, with some saying ‘we’re not going there,’ and others happily jumping off to leave the past and enter into the future.”As for DiNardo, the 64-year-old cardinal has a similar profile to Kurtz: Unquestionably orthodox but not ideologically charged, a pragmatic and effective administrator, combined with a low-key and gracious personality.As Kurtz’s number two, DiNardo brings a bit of background that the new president lacks: Roman, and Vatican, experience. DiNardo studied at both the Gregorian and Augustinian universities as a young priest, and later served as an official of the all-important Congregation for Bishops from 1984 to 1990 under the late Cardinal Bernardin Gantin.With today’s votes, the bishops gave a nod to geographical diversity of the American church, electing their president from the South and their vice-president from the Southwest.On another level, one could say that the election actually was a triumph for the Eastern state of Pennsylvania, since Kurtz hails from there and DiNardo, though actually born in Ohio, grew up in Pennsylvania and served as a priest in the Diocese of Pittsburgh.* John L. Allen Jr. is senior correspondent of the National Catholic Reporter and senior Vatican analyst for CNN.

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