Comments for Religion News Service http://www.religionnews.com Coverage of religion, ethics and spirituality from around the globe Mon, 27 May 2013 20:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Is Pope Francis is a heretic? No, but he does raise questions by Chris http://www.religionnews.com/2013/05/24/is-pope-francis-is-a-heretic-no-but-he-does-raise-questions/#comment-158604 Chris Mon, 27 May 2013 20:21:35 +0000 http://www.religionnews.com/?p=8297#comment-158604 I’d like to quote Father Max Zerwick, S.J., who addressed the difficulty with using a literal translation of “pro multis” back in 1970:

“…why in our liturgical translations is the venerable pro multis replaced by pro omnibus? Here is my answer. This is appropriate because of an inconvenient fact, accidental but true. The phrase “for many” (it is said) in our minds today is understood without reflection to exclude the universality of Christ’s redemptive work. The Semitic mind of the Bible could see that universality connoted in the phrase “for many.” In fact that connotation was certainly there, because of the theological context. However eloquent it was for ancient peoples, today that allusion to the Suffering Servant of Isaiah is clear only to experts.”

The full article is archived at http://www.americancatholicpress.org/Father_Zerwick_Pro_Multis.html and is excellent reading. (As are his books; essential to any Bibical scholar, imnsho.)

]]> Comment on Is Pope Francis is a heretic? No, but he does raise questions by Antiphon411 http://www.religionnews.com/2013/05/24/is-pope-francis-is-a-heretic-no-but-he-does-raise-questions/#comment-158342 Antiphon411 Mon, 27 May 2013 16:59:39 +0000 http://www.religionnews.com/?p=8297#comment-158342 How embarrassing: the self-proclaimed Latin expert misspells his Latin. Extra EcclesiaM nulla salus. Well, even Jupiter nods.

]]> Comment on Is Pope Francis is a heretic? No, but he does raise questions by Graham-Michoel http://www.religionnews.com/2013/05/24/is-pope-francis-is-a-heretic-no-but-he-does-raise-questions/#comment-158316 Graham-Michoel Mon, 27 May 2013 16:41:18 +0000 http://www.religionnews.com/?p=8297#comment-158316 He didn’t say atheists ‘are’ saved, but ‘can’ be saved.

]]> Comment on Is Pope Francis is a heretic? No, but he does raise questions by Graham-Michoel http://www.religionnews.com/2013/05/24/is-pope-francis-is-a-heretic-no-but-he-does-raise-questions/#comment-158312 Graham-Michoel Mon, 27 May 2013 16:39:37 +0000 http://www.religionnews.com/?p=8297#comment-158312 Can you point to me where is says in the Bible redemption is ‘only’ for believers.

]]> Comment on Is Pope Francis is a heretic? No, but he does raise questions by Graham-Michoel http://www.religionnews.com/2013/05/24/is-pope-francis-is-a-heretic-no-but-he-does-raise-questions/#comment-158306 Graham-Michoel Mon, 27 May 2013 16:38:00 +0000 http://www.religionnews.com/?p=8297#comment-158306 You clearly don’t understand the role of the Pope. Why do people keep trotting out these old misconceptions?

]]> Comment on Is Pope Francis is a heretic? No, but he does raise questions by Graham-Michoel http://www.religionnews.com/2013/05/24/is-pope-francis-is-a-heretic-no-but-he-does-raise-questions/#comment-158304 Graham-Michoel Mon, 27 May 2013 16:35:38 +0000 http://www.religionnews.com/?p=8297#comment-158304 ‘eye-catching headlines’ – At the end of the day, isn’t that all they were. The media has simply latched on to another arena of ‘gotcha’ type news gathering, except it isn’t really news, it’s 2000 years old, it’s as old as time. Surely the real message of Pope Francis – following in the footsteps of his illustrious name sake – is that no one is beyond redemption. That’s God at work, that’s pure Gospel, that’s Catholicism.
As was pointed out to me recently, Jesus didn’t turn to the ‘bad thief’ and say, “Today you will not be with me in paradise.”

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]]> Comment on Will there be a ‘mass exodus’ of religious groups from the Scouts? by Matt http://www.religionnews.com/2013/05/24/will-there-be-a-mass-exodus-of-religious-groups-from-the-scouts/#comment-158274 Matt Mon, 27 May 2013 16:16:26 +0000 http://www.religionnews.com/?p=8300#comment-158274 It’s so wonderful to see the bigoted christian institutions being torn apart finally. Hopefully in the next few years the Scouts will come to their senses and allow the gays to lead as well. The archaic books that the christians follow are so full of holes and hypocrisy that it is bound to be left in the footnotes of mythology. This is the dawning of a new age of reason and understanding that must be nurtured so that one day all men will truly be viewed as equals here in the states. Maybe one the atheist will also be allowed to join the Boy Scouts as well.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
-Thomas Jefferson

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]]> Comment on No limbs, no limits – Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Video: Nick Vujicic by www.bodyarmour.co.za http://www.religionnews.com/2013/04/03/no-limbs-no-limits-religion-ethics-newsweekly-video-nick-vujicic/#comment-158233 www.bodyarmour.co.za Mon, 27 May 2013 15:55:55 +0000 http://www.religionnews.com/?p=5741#comment-158233 I never understood until the end of what’s written here, because I are not aware of English so well. You’ll be able to write it more sort?

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