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The Roman Catholic Church as we know it will no longer exist… and sooner than later.

Bookmark this post, because it is something I would wager serious money on.

Four people I have long known, good Catholics each, have left the Church in the past two months.  One walked out and left after the minister delivered a homily that literally begged parishioners to ignore the massive scandal involving homosexual abuse on the part of Church clergy.  And it’s only going to get worse.

Consider this: Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano – one of the most respected Catholic officials in the world – is now for all intents and purposes a fugitive in hiding from his own Church.  Ever since blowing the lid off of the abuses and now stating that Pope Francis was actively involved in covering up the behavior when he was still Cardinal Bergoglio in Argentina, Vigano has been ...

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From the homily that Pope Francis delivered this morning in his first Mass as the newly-elected Bishop of Rome:

“We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way. We can walk all we want, we can build many things, but if we don’t proclaim Jesus Christ, something is wrong… When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.”

Francis also spoke about returning to the Gospels. That without building upon spiritual values and instead trusting in worldly values, all is like a sandcastle before “everything comes crashing down”.

I am not Catholic, but in less than ...

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Either those cardinals are taking one heckuva break for Camels, or they have just elected the next pope!

Watching it right now.  Awesome scene at Saint Peter’s Square.  Now we just gotta learn who it is that’s been voted on.

Whoever it is, may God’s wisdom and grace be upon him.  I’m not Catholic, but I appreciate my Catholic brethren’s enthusiasm and I absolutely have to wish them and their new leader well 🙂

“Habemus Papam!“

UPDATE 2:26 p.m. EST: Here’s a pic of that white smoke going up!

Conclave, new pope, white smoke, 2013, Vatican, Sistine Chapel

UPDATE 2:44 p.m. EST: Lots of humor about this on Twitter right now.  Thankfully none or very little of it seems to be vulgar 🙂

UPDATE 3:15 p.m. EST: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina is the new pope! A Jesuit from Argentina.  I think that makes him the first “New World” pope.

UPDATE 3:20 p.m. EST:  So ...

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