Vatican: Catholics recognize Luther as a "witness to the gospel"

A new document of the "Pontifical Council for Christian Unity" promotes the "Week of prayer for Christian Unity 2017". It states:

„Separating that which is polemical from the theological insights of the Reformation, Catholics are now able to hear Luther’s challenge for the Church of today, recognising him as a ‚witness to the gospel‘ (From Conflict to Communion 29). And so after centuries of mutual condemnations and vilification, in 2017 Lutheran and Catholic Christians will for the first time commemorate together the beginning of the Reformation.“

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aderito

Jan 6, 2017

Soon Vatican will name a saint .

Holy Cannoli

Jan 6, 2017

“Witness to the gospel”
What gospel might that be?
Here we go again. The Vatican desperately needs an editor before they disseminate this kind of crap. Yes, Dear empty-headed Vatican loons, I am available if the $$$ is right. HolyCannoli@Gloria.tv

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In his On the Jews and their Lies, Luther stated:
Let their houses also be shattered and destroyed… …More

“Witness to the gospel”
What gospel might that be?

Here we go again. The Vatican desperately needs an editor before they disseminate this kind of crap. Yes, Dear empty-headed Vatican loons, I am available if the $$$ is right. HolyCannoli@Gloria.tv

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In his On the Jews and their Lies, Luther stated:

Let their houses also be shattered and destroyed… Let their prayer books and Talmuds be taken from them, and their whole Bible too; let their rabbis be forbidden, on pain of death, to teach henceforth any more. Let the streets and highways be closed against them. Let them be forbidden to practice usury, and let all their money, and all their treasures of silver and gold be taken from them and put away in safety. And if all this be not enough, let them be driven like mad dogs out of the land.

Luther, in fact, warned his followers to “be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously.”

“In sum,” he wrote, the Jews “are the Devil’s children, damned to hell.”