Pope Francis, Vatican to Honor Martin Luther

[Sword of the Lord]

http://www.kansascity.com/living/religion/article32629113.html

 

[LivingWordUnity]

The Catholic Herald link for it now says, "Sorry, the page you requested could not be found." And, so far, I'm not seeing this being reported on any of the reputably orthodox Catholic news sites. So I think it is likely a hoax.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

The Catholic Herald link for it now says, "Sorry, the page you requested could not be found." And, so far, I'm not seeing this being reported on any of the reputably orthodox Catholic news sites. So I think it is likely a hoax.

I saw it on Fox earlier as well.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

http://cathnews.co.nz/2015/08/28/rome-piazza-to-be-named-after-martin-luther/

http://www.breitbart.com/national-s...-luther-for-500th-anniversary-of-reformation/

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/08/26/vatican-backs-plan-name-rome-square-martin-luther/

http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/08/vatican-oks-renaming-of-rome-square-for-martin-luther/

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Apparently, this is outside of Vatican City walls and Francis and the Vatican have merely given their blessings and support.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25917

http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-dedicates-piazza-to-martin-luther/

 

[LivingWordUnity]

Apparently, this is outside of Vatican City walls and Francis and the Vatican have merely given their blessings and support.

Unless there's proof of that (the part I put in bold) I'm going to assume that it got misreported since the media regularly misreports things about the Vatican and since I don't see how it would make any sense for the Vatican to do that considering that Luther thought that the Pope was the Antichrist.

 

[benedictaoo]

What are we honouring him for?

 

[LivingWordUnity]

https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25917

http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-dedicates-piazza-to-martin-luther/

In the Catholic Culture news article it merely states, "The Vatican did not oppose the project." The Vatican doesn't have control over what the city of Rome does. So just because the Vatican didn't protest it doesn't mean it was given a blessing. I expect Jimmy Akin of Catholic Answers to publish another of his "things you should know about..." with this one.

 

[benedictaoo]

Is this some ecumenical thing? I can see honouring him for exposing abuses but past that, no.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

What are we honouring him for?

The media reported his "achievements," which I know will get a lot of flack here.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

The media reported his "achievements," which I know will get a lot of flack here.

Probably. Pope Benedict was charitable towards Luther as well, holding him in high esteem and saying that there was a lot of good in the Book of Concord. Kind of how JP2 kissed the Koran.

 

[benedictaoo]

I don't have a major problem with him. His heart was in the right place at first but then he totally went off the rails.

 

[Rhamiel]

there are a lot of ecumenical actions that take place
with the anniversary of the Reformation coming up I assume we will see a lot of this

 

[pdudgeon]

it would be interesting to know what first prompted the idea of honoring Luther by naming a square in Rome after him.........
somehow i think there's more to the story than just coincidence and rumbles of anti-Christian sentiment.
that it was proposed by the Seventh Day Adventists is no surprise.
They are very much anti-Catholic.

 

[High Fidelity]

That's... interesting.

I could understand honouring various character traits of someone whose theology is fundamentally different to your own, but it's a bit odd to be doing anything of the sort around the anniversary of the Reformation.

An example of this would be John MacArthur highlighting the charitable work that the RCC does, despite fundamentally disagreeing with the church's theology.

Just a little strange, the timing.

I'm guessing something has been taken out of context and stories run just because it'll sell.

 

[Rhamiel]

that it was proposed by the Seventh Day Adventists is no surprise.
They are very much anti-Catholic

it was proposed by someone who is SDA?
yeah...... sounds like an example of real life trolling

 

[Rhamiel]

Italy does have anti-clerical elements in it

 

[Sword of the Lord]

SDA doesn't get to ruin something good.

 

[Wryetui]

So it's true after all, I thought they were kidding...