HERESY!! All donkeys go to heaven’ Pope says the Kingdom of Heaven is open to ALL God’s creatures!!!

Francis – Bergoglio has received an unusual early Christmas present of two donkeys, following his declaration that animals do, after all, we all go to heaven! All of us will be up there together, all of us! – The Gospel according to Bergoglio

In his weekly audience in St Peter’s Francis quoted the apostle Paul who comforted a child who was crying after his dog died.

“One day we will see our animals again in eternity of Christ’, Francis quoted Paul as saying. The Pope added: “Paradise is open to all God’s creatures.”

His position is markedly different from that of Pope Benedict XVI said that the other animals ‘are not called to the eternal life’.

This week the pope was presented with the two donkeys, named Thea and Noah, by a company that produces donkey milk for babies that are allergic to other milks.

After thanking him for the curious gift, a delighted Francis revealed that he too as a baby was fed donkey milk, Pierluigi Christophe Orunesu, of donkey farming cooperative Eurolactis Italia, claimed.

Mr Orunesu said the pope was ‘very happy. “I told him he will have two friends for life,” he told Dairy Reporter website.

“Pope Francis told me today in front of media that his mother regularly gave him donkey’s milk where she could not provide enough breast milk or later on when he was a child,” he said.

The company also donated 21 gallons of donkey’s milk to the pediatric hospital in Rome.

At the service in St Peter’s Square the Pope also met and blessed rescue dogs.

The donkeys will now go to live at the pope’s farm at the papal summer palace of Castel Gandolfo 30 miles outside Rome.

Two years ago Pope Benedict claimed that donkeys were not part of the Nativity.

He wrote in his book about the childhood of Jesus that the presence of animals like cattle and donkeys in traditional Nativity scenes is based on little more than a myth and was probably inspired by pre-Christian traditions.

“There is no mention of animals in the Gospels,” he wrote.

Source: BERGOGLIO: ALL DONKEY’S GO TO HEAVEN

POPE FRANCIS ORDERS VATICAN TO CREATE FIRST EVER ART EXHIBITION TO PROMOTE CHRISLAM!!!

Vatican partners with Islamic museum for unique exhibition. For the first time ever, the Vatican is staging an unusual exhibition in the Emirate of Shajah. The show is seen as a sign of openness and cooperation between religions.

Ulrike al-Khamis has outdone herself. In a project that began six years ago, the art historian from Germany was tasked with bringing the extensive collections of the Emir of Sharjah into shape when the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization was renovated and re-opened. The exhibition she is now presenting in a sparkling domed building almost the size of a soccer field has exceeded expectations.

“It is the first collaboration of the Vatican with an Arab country,” said al-Khamis. Indeed, the exhibition is one-of-a-kind – not only because it presents excellent artworks but also because it furthers dialogue between Christians and Muslims.

A mashup of Western arts, Islam and Buddhism

The artworks on show from the Ethnological Museum of the Vatican stem from the 12th to the 19th century, but also include valuable objects from everyday life in the Arab world. Vases and bracelets, seals and armor, tapestries and precious daggers are on display. All the works come from the Islamic region between Morocco and Sudan all the way to Western China, but are now owned by the Vatican.

Many of the objects embody the dialogue between the Muslim and Western worlds. There’s a dime-sized Koran produced in a print shop in Glasgow, and yellow mugs from Western China that bear an Arabic inscription surrounded by lotus flowers, which are a Buddhist symbol.

“We had only one year to prepare this show,” said Ulrike al-Khamis. When the German art expert began advising in Sharjah, one of the emirates of the United Arab Emirates, she did not know what she was getting herself into.

“I traveled to Rome with my colleagues. We, the experts from Sharjah, and some Christian art historians searched the chambers of the Vatican together and discovered several pieces that had never been exhibited before,” she recalled.

The result is a unique show in Sharjah that presents a comprehensive look at Islam.

“So that you may know each other” is the fitting title of the exhibition

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99% of the Vatican opposed my prayer summit idea!!

The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman: unique, the Chair founded on Peter … Outside her fold is to be found neither the true faith nor eternal salvation, for it is impossible to have God for a Father if one has not the Church for a Mother.
- Bl. Pope Pius IX 

Outside the Church there is no salvation.
- St. Cyprian 

Welcome to Newchurch Bergoglio, 99% opposed to prayer summit!!  Anathema!

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Almost all Vatican officials initially opposed Pope Francis’ idea of bringing the Israeli and Palestinian presidents together for a prayer summit, he said in an interview published Friday.

However, they eventually warmed up to the idea. Francis hosted Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas on the lawn of the Vatican gardens on June 8 for an evening of Jewish, Christian and Muslim prayers, weeks after the latest round of U.S.-sponsored peace talks collapsed. The meeting wasn’t aimed at restarting talks, but merely to serve as a symbol of mutual coexistence and respect.

In an interview with the Barcelona newspaper “La Vanguardia,” Francis acknowledged the idea was completely novel and wasn’t easy to pull off. But he said he had one aim: “to open a window to the world.”

“Here in the Vatican, 99 percent said we shouldn’t do it, and then later the 1 percent started growing,” he said.

Francis, whose friendship with Jews is well-known, appeared to defend World War II-era Pope Pius XII, accused by some Jews of not speaking out enough against the Holocaust. He noted that Pius sheltered Jews and said even the Allied powers had some explaining to do.

“They knew perfectly well the Nazis’ rail network used to bring Jews to concentration camps. They had the photos. Why didn’t they bomb the tracks?” he asked. “It’d be good that we discuss everything” and not just Pius’ actions.

On current events, Francis said he was concerned about recent secessionist movements in Scotland, Barcelona and Italy’s Padania region. He suggested that the secession that occurred in the former Yugoslavia was understandable since “there are places with cultures that are so different that you can’t keep them together even with glue.”

“The Yugoslav case was very clear, but I ask myself if it’s so clear in other cases,” he said. “You have to study it case by case.”

Asked why he even dared to enter into the Mideast “hurricane,” Francis quipped that the true hurricane came when he visited Brazil last year and was mobbed by millions of well-wishers because he refused the bullet-proof popemobile.

“I couldn’t greet people and tell them I love them from inside a sardine can, even if it was crystal!” he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/pope-francis-vatican-opposed-prayer_n_5492313.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

“Believers and non-believers, we’re all brothers and sisters”

Pope Francis Interview: “Believers and non-believers, we’re all brothers and sisters”

(Vatican Radio) An interview showing Pope Francis answering questions from a group of Belgian young people has been broadcast on the nation’s public Flemish TV station, VRT. The young people, who were accompanied by Bishop Lucas Van Looy of Ghent, put their questions to the Pope in English and he replied in Italian. Their meeting was filmed on March 31st inside the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.

Link to the original interview: www.een.be/programmas/koppen/habemus-papam

The group of Belgian young people included a non-believer who said she was inspired by the words of Pope Francis. When they began by asking the Pope why he accepted this interview, he replied that he considered it highly valuable to speak about the worries of the young. The Pope was then asked : “Are you happy? And why?”

“Absolutely, absolutely (laughing) I’m happy! And it’s a tranquil happiness because at this age one no longer has the same happiness of a young person, there’s a difference. There’s a certain interior peace, a strong sense of peace, of happiness, that comes with age. But it’s a road that has always had problems. Even now there are problems but this happiness doesn’t go away because of the problems. No, it sees the problems, suffers because of them and then goes forward, it does something to resolve them and goes ahead. But in the depth of my heart there is this peace and happiness. It’s truly a grace from God, for me. It’s a grace and it’s not through my own merit.”
The young people next asked the pope what was the reason for his great love for the poor. “Because it’s the heart of the Gospel,” he replied.

“For me, the heart of the Gospel is about the poor. Two months ago, I heard a person who said (on hearing this): ‘But this Pope is a communist!’ But no! This is the banner of the Gospel, not of communism: of the Gospel! But it’s poverty without ideology…. And it’s for this reason that I believe that the poor are at the centre of Jesus’ message. All you have to do is read it. The problem is that this attitude towards the poor has sometimes during history been made the subject of ideology.”

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http://angelqueen.org/2014/04/04/believers-and-non-believers-were-all-brothers-and-sisters/

DePaul the first Catholic university to offer Queer Studies program – NC Reporter proud

Further proof of the Complacency and lack of Faith and Morals in America’s  Catholic Church!!

From the Catholic Distorter            No Joke CINO, DePaul the first Catholic university to offer LGBTQ minor

I’m a proud alumnus of DePaul University (class of 2002) and had a profound experience studying in Chicago. There were so many benefits of getting a liberal arts education in an urban environment at a university that prides itself on Vincentian values.

Back in 2006, I went to hear university president Vincentian Fr. Dennis Holtschneider speak in San Francisco. I dragged my now-wife along, and we didn’t really know what we were getting into — maybe we’d swipe a few drinks and cheesy appetizers before heading on to dinner.

The president spoke, and we were blown away, mostly upon hearing that DePaul was the first Catholic university in the country that had an LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) studies program. Here was a priest speaking in public about the need to support a curriculum that honors the historic oppression of this community. We were blown away.

The academic program is set up as a minor and has a broad array of classes from various departments that make up the curriculum and form the interdisciplinary minor. (You can review the coursework here.)

Gary Cestaro, the program’s founding director and a professor in the Department of Modern Languages at DePaul, filled me in on how the program came together. The minor was established in 2005 and had a lot of broad support from the ground up and the top down, growing organically out of DePaul’s culture and commitment to social justice. There was already a history of interest in and advocacy for LGBTQ issues among students, staff and faculty. At the academic level, study of sexual identity was growing everywhere, not just at DePaul, so many members of faculty were writing, publishing and teaching on these identity issues. Many disciplines were offering coursework in that area, and there was a lot of student interest and demand. The program’s beginnings were just like that of any other new program: It started with a curriculum committee, then went to the deans for approval, then went to the president. It made sense to allow students to recognize this as a minor on their transcript.

There had to be some conflict for a program like this at a Catholic university, I said.

“We had universal enthusiastic support from the bottom to the top,” Cestaro said. “This fits in very well with DePaul’s mission and commitment to social justice.” There were some voices that objected, however, including Cardinal Francis George in a weekly bulletin and Catholic Citizens of Illinois, who published this letter.

So what does one actually study when taking courses toward the LGBTQ minor? One part of the curriculum is discussing faith identity, Catholicism, social justice and LGBTQ identity. Students in the introductory course read Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination: Guidelines for Pastoral Care, a document published by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Catholic positions on the issue are presented as part of the program and discussed. DePaul supports academic inquiry. That’s part of what the university is about.

About 40 students have earned the minor since its inception. One of those students is Zach Stafford, who also majored in women’s and gender studies, earning his degrees in 2012. Stafford now works as a community outreach coordinator in the Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV Prevention at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He is also the co-editor of a new book called Boys: An Anthology, a collection of stories by gay and transgendered men from around the world.

Stafford has obviously found ways to apply his minor from DePaul. He hails from the Bible belt in Tennessee, a place he returns to so he can visit his mother but not a place that has a lot for him. His family moved to a rural area north of Nashville, and he was the only person of color for many years. He did not come out in high school, not so much because he didn’t know but rather because straight people weren’t announcing their sexuality, so he didn’t feel he had to do the same.

He wanted to move to a big city but wasn’t drawn to Los Angeles or New York. His dad had studied at the University of Chicago, so he visited the city a few times growing up. His original choice was to go to Northwestern, but he missed the application deadline. DePaul was his safety school, and he intended to transfer to Northwestern after one year. However, after one year, he was pleasantly surprised at how supportive students, faculty and staff were in the area of sexual identity. He visited Northwestern but didn’t feel the same vibe. So he stuck with DePaul and found a mentor in Cestaro, who took an interest in Stafford’s writing and helped him become a better writer by making him read his pieces aloud. For Stafford, it was influential because it was the first time someone had taken an interest in his writing.

The minor helped Stafford better articulate queer identity to people back home, including his parents. Being an academic program gave it more legitimacy: “I started talking to my parents more about my coursework, including studying queer theory, and getting the LGBTQ minor helped me to talk even more about a historically oppressed community that gave me the language to talk about a community.”

Everything was ripe for DePaul University to become the first Catholic university in the country to offer this sort of academic minor. It’s already having a personal and professional effect on graduates like Stafford.

“Overall, DePaul was very supportive,” he said. “It’s one of the most diverse universities in the country, so that helps.” Even alumni contribute to support the program, according to Sara Miller-Acosta, the associate vice president for development at DePaul. It might take a little bit of imagination, but a minor in LGBTQ studies can co-exist at a university steeped in Catholic tradition.

[Mike Sweitzer-Beckman helped launch youngadultcatholics-blog.com in 2008. He currently does development work for the first ecumenical monastic community in North America, based in his hometown of Middleton, Wis.]

http://ncronline.org/blogs/young-voices/no-joke-catholic-university-offers-lgbtq-minor