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Gloria.TV News on the 7th of October 2015 Clarification: Yesterday, Pope Francis said at the Synod on the Family, that “Catholic doctrine on marriage was never put in discussion by last year’s Synod.…More
Gloria.TV News on the 7th of October 2015
Clarification: Yesterday, Pope Francis said at the Synod on the Family, that “Catholic doctrine on marriage was never put in discussion by last year’s Synod.” He also asked “not to reduce the themes of the Synod to Communion for remarried divorcees.”
Plenty Of Reasons: Catholic columnist Patrick Archbold sees plenty of reasons to suspect that Francis “wants the heretical innovators to prevail.” He remembers the selection of Cardinal Kasper to deliver the preparatory speech in February 2014 that put the question of communion for adulterers front and center. According to Archbold since then, Francis has not changed his course.
Discussion: Pro-homosex and pro-divorce Munich Cardinal Marx revealed to La Reppublica that homosexuality will be at the center of a specific discussion at the Synod. Quote: “This is an important topic.” Marx admitted that there is little interaction between the liberal Cardinals and the Catholic Cardinals.
Disturbing: US …More
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McCain believes that the people the US are training is not Al-Qaeda. The Syrian archbishop thinks all the rebels are Al-Qaeda. Neither are bad people, they just understand the facts differently.
I suspect the archbishop is incorrect and not all the rebels are terrorists- the CIA probably knows better than him about the ideology of the rebels they are training; he has authority over spiritual matters …More
McCain believes that the people the US are training is not Al-Qaeda. The Syrian archbishop thinks all the rebels are Al-Qaeda. Neither are bad people, they just understand the facts differently.

I suspect the archbishop is incorrect and not all the rebels are terrorists- the CIA probably knows better than him about the ideology of the rebels they are training; he has authority over spiritual matters, not over political facts.

And McCain is also incorrect because even 'moderate rebels' are a sin in God's eyes, since He gave authority to governments to rule people (Romans 13). For the same reason as this, however, one must also reject what has happened in the Ukraine, which means that Putin is still wrong.

The rule of a government over people is just as much a part of the natural law as is the law governing family and sexuality. A society requires a family with a mother and a father in order to continue. It also needs people to respect the laws of the state and not to take up arms and fight against it, otherwise the society also cannot continue.

It is called natural law, because you don't need revelation to know this- by reason you can plainly see it. It is so ridiculous to watch people who condemn homosexuality because they say it threatens society and goes against reason, while at the same time supporting the people who are fighting the lawful government in the Ukraine, turning cities into battlegrounds and driving people from their homes as thousands die in bloodshed... and somehow not coming to reason that civilization can't exist like this either.

The people fighting the government are just like the people who want to marry the same sex- they are both violations of the natural law upon which the whole society is underpinned.

When Catholics in Poland in 1830 rose up in rebellion against Russia, Russia was Orthodox and it was persecuting Catholics, and yet the Pope condemned the rebellion and called on Polish Catholics to obey the Czar because his authority was from God. Even a government that is against the Truth still has to be obeyed, because the natural law is like this.

Only in extreme circumstances where life is threatened and there is no other recourse, or obedience to the law would mean to commit sin, can rebellion ever be morally permissible.