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Romans 16
19 For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil. 20 And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly.
De Chirico’s article “What Do You Think About Pope Francis?” is really helpful. In it he states that it is “vitally important for evangelicals to know who Pope Francis really is.” If you read only this excerpt, you will be wiser.
“It comes as no surprise then that the first saint that Pope Francis proclaimed in 2013 was Pierre Favre (1506-1546), a French first generation Jesuit with a ‘smiling face’ who more than others tried to look like a Protestant in order to drive people back to the Roman Church.
Pierre Favre (Peter Faber), Co-founder of the Company of Jesus
“Furthermore, the Jesuit side of Pope Francis is clear enough given his published (and never retracted) opinion that Luther and Calvin destroyed man, poisoned society, and ruined the church! In his 1985 lecture on the history of the Jesuit order, he gave severe evaluations of Luther (a ‘heretic’), and especially of Calvin (a ‘heretic’ and ‘schismatic’) bringing about the ‘Calvinist squalor’ in society, in the church, and in man’s heart. According to that lecture, Protestantism lies at the root of all evils in the modern West. The fact that this lecture was republished unchanged in 2013 in Spanish and translated in 2014 into Italian with his permission, but without a mitigating word of explanation, indicates that this assessment still lingers in the Pope’s heart and mind. He recently added a harsh comment on the Puritans, falsely associating them with a bigoted and merciless form of Christianity. This friendly Pope to Evangelicals is a Jesuit whose entire mission of order is to defend the Roman Church against Protestantism. Certainly Francis is a smiling Jesuit, but the anti-Protestant still beats in his heart.”
Leonardo De Chirico
What Do You Think About Pope Francis?
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Some evangelical leaders pray with Pope Francis in May 2015
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Thanks, Maria. Yes, in addition to the information at the Reformanda Initiative site, De Chirico has an excellent blog as well:
http://vaticanfiles.org/author/leonardo/
He also has written an excellent, short book on the papacy available from Amazon: “A Christian’s Pocket Guide to Papacy.”
https://www.amazon.com/Christians-Pocket-Guide-Papacy-century/dp/1781912998/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477557042&sr=1-3&keywords=Leonardo+De+Chirico
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Thank you, Tom!
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And many Evangelicals and Protestants have fallen for the slanders said of Luther and Calvin.
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that should be “…fallen for the slanders said of…”
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Changed this for you…
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Thanks! Such a world of difference in my statement just because of one word missing! lol God bless you! \o/
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Yep! Kind of scary that it’s easy to make mistakes and be misunderstood.
Praise God that Jesus is our Good Shepherd Who takes care of everything!
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You’re right, Sherry. Thank you, sister!
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Catholicism will not take by force this time but will “woo” those that have built their “house” on sinking sand back by satan’s slithery words…beguiling them into thinking they are building their house upon a rock with him.
Matthew 7:24-27
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
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Elizabeth, I didn’t see this before – that they believe they are building upon the rock but aren’t – thank you!
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Our gracious Father is new to His children every morning!
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Thank you, Sis Maria!
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Thank you! Will go see…
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