500 years after the reformation, a wind of religious freedom strikes Costa Rica. Now protestant Christians can become teachers in religion.
The Pope has to find another place to lay his hat, than in public schools in Costa Rica.
CNA yesterday reported that Costa Rica’s Constitutional Court, by a vote of 4-3, struck down the agreement between the Catholic Church and the government. This agreement has given the Bishop’s Conference of Costa Rica the right to approve teachers of Catholic religion in public schools.
The arrangement, which allowed the Church to reject a teacher on moral grounds as well as knowledge of religion, was seen by those challenging it as an intrusion by bishops into affairs of the public schools.
Source Catholic News Agency (CNA)
My comment:
While Northern Europe got rid of the Papal yoke 500 years ago, the reformation did not come to Spanish Costa Rica before 2010.
It is easy to forget the Spain remained a Catholic Fascist dictatorship up to the year 1974. Slowly the Fascist grip is loosening also over Catholic Latin America
No doubt that Latin America has suffered a lot. Even after Latino colonialism ended, the American hispanish people have been under the yoke of religious dictatorship and monopoly.
Today there is rejoicing in Heaven over what has happened in Costa Rica.
«The solution to conflicts rests in the hands of the stronger country in its occupying and inflicting wars on another country»
Monsignor Nikola Eterovic will organize a Catholic synod in October, to be used to target the Jewish state of Israel.
This is expressed in a Vatican document released Tuesday. It blames the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the «occupying» of lands for fomenting most of the conflicts in the Middle East. This conflict is also being given as the reason for driving Christians out of the Middle East, and making life difficult for those who remain.
The document is a guide for discussions for an Oct. 10-24 meeting of Mideast bishops convened by Pope Benedict XVI. Monsignor Nikola Eterovic will be the Synod organizer. Ha said about 150 bishops, most of them from Eastern rite churches, are expected to attend the meeting, which follows a 2009 Vatican meeting of bishops on Africa.
It criticized the Israeli «occupation» of Palestinian lands, saying it had made life difficult both for daily life and religious life since access to holy places are restricted.
Nikola Eterovic (left) is an up comming man in the Vatican, close to the Pope.
Citing both the Israeli-Palestinian and Iraqi conflicts, it said: «The solution to conflicts rests in the hands of the stronger country in its occupying and inflicting wars on another country».
«Violence is in the hands of the strong and weak alike, the latter resorting to whatever violence is within reach in order to be free», it said.
Asked at a news conference if the document was referring specifically to Israeli settlements in the West Bank and construction in east Jerusalem, Nikola Eterovic said theVatican wasn’t making policy decisions or recommendations in the document.
Source: Jerusalem Post.
My comment:
One day the Pope enters a synagogue in Rome requesting for peace between Catholics and Jews. The very next day a Vatican document accusing the Jewish state of Israel for being a criminal state, that launches wars on «its smaller and weaker neighbor».
Nothing can be further from the truth.
First:
Israel is of the size of New Jersey state in the US.
Second:
The Jewish state has a land area that is less than two per cent of the areas controlled by its Arabic neighbors. Israel`s Jewish population is 5,5 million, a fragment of the populations of its Arabic enemies.
Third:
After being attacked by its Arab neighbors in 1948, 1952, 1967, 1973, 1981, 1991, 2006 and 2008, you have to be pretty dull to accuse Israel of being the aggressor.
Or you are under the influence of an unclean lying Spirit, who uses you as a tool to target the Jewish state.
The Roman Catholic is told that the Holy Spirit preserve the Popes from making mistake in questions of Faith and moral.
Pope Pius XII did not enter the Vatican on a donkey, but was carried around like a pagan King.
Pope Pius XII forced a doctrine on the Vatican Church in 1950 called the «Papal infallibility». It is a dogma that, by action of the Holy Spirit, the Pope is preserved from even the possibility of error when he solemnly declares or promulgates teaching on faith or morals.
Since the Popes claim they are successor to the Apostle Peter, Pius XII made them some kind of super-humans even compared to Peter. Because the Jewish fisherman after had receieved the Power of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, committed serious errors, and was rebuked by Paul. This is explained to us in Gal 2:11.
Since the Bible say that the Holy Spirit is equally available to all believers, we can only be sure of one thing: Any man, Pope, Priest or Pastor, who claim superiority over other believers, may they be laymen or ordained, is ruled by the spirit of anti-Christ.
The lost toe of the Catholic saint Francis Xavier, and other sacred relics of the patron saint of Goa, will be exposed for public veneration. It will take place in St. Roque´s Church in the heart of Lisbon.
More than one toe of this Roman Catholic priest displayed in Old Goa is missing.
The reliquary is of St. Francis toe, which as per historical accounts was bitten off the saints body by a Portuguese noble lady in the 16th century.
The Saints vestments and other relics belonged to the family of the Count of Nova Goa, and have recently been donated to Santa Casa De Misericordia a state run Portuguese Charity who also maintains a well known museum in Lisbon.
The skull of the Roman Catholic priest can be adored in Old Goa in Goa in India.
The occasion will be commemorated with a solemn mass organized by the Santa Casa in collaboration with the Casa de Goa, the apex organization of the Goan community in Portugal.
Source: Indian newspaper Gomantak Times
My comment:
It is not funny to tell the Roman Catholic that this is paganism, and reminds me about Egyptian worship of mummies.
The Bishop of Goa and his priests worship the mummified body of a Catholic priest in Old Goa.
But I have to.
This is about life and death. The eternal consequences of adoration, veneration or worshiping of a skeleton is God´s wrath and judgment.
What do Pastors in Protestant Churches think they are doing, when they move in ecumenical forums with Rome? Do they think they will escape the coming judgment for approving this kind of «church» as Christian?
Revelation 9:20 The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
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