OK, but who was the Prostitute? What was her name? OH, Mary Magdalene,,, Isn't she the woman this cartoon represents? Wasn't she considered a Prostitute? My husband say's, it's from Luke 7:36 on to maybe afar as 7:50.
That woman is who this cartoon and my meaning is in refers to.
No, Mary Magdalene wasn't a prostitute. There is nothing in the Bible that says that she was, or that she was the woman referred to in Luke 7 (Luke actually says that Mary Magdalene had seven demons excised from her.)
Not that it matters -- yes, Jesus embraced and forgave prostitutes, but he did not tell them that they should continue to be prostitutes, Yes, Pope Francis "met" Kim Davies during a reception at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, but the Vatican has made subsequent statements that it wasn't a "meeting" with Kim Davies, that the Pope was not making a statement of support by being in the same building as her, and finally that he did not support her point of view, at all.
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Sorry, But the POPE and the Catholic Church has no right to Lecture or Criticize America. As far as I know and from the figures I seen, we take in more Illegals and True Refugees and Legal Immigrates than any other Country on Earth. Just try and become a refugee or get into the Vatican City to live.
Pope Francis delivered a stinging blow to nativist conservatives bent on keeping illegal immigrants and Middle Eastern refugees out of the United States, saying Thursday in a landmark address to Congress that Americans should show compassion to immigrants of all stripes.
'When the stranger in our midst appeals to us, we must not repeat the sins and the errors of the past,' the Roman Catholic pontiff said. 'We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we educate new generations not to turn their back on our “neighbors” and everything around us.'
Speaking in English – a language he has learned only recently – Francis also dropped coded messages to conservatives about gay marriage and abortion, and made an impassioned plea for a left-leaning approach to capital punishment in an unprecedented visit to Capitol Hill by a sitting Pope.
'I cannot hide my concern for the family, which is threatened, perhaps as never before, from within and without,' Francis told a packed House chamber filled with legislators, Supreme Court justices and multiple presidential candidates.
If that's TRUE,,, with all the Money The Vatican has,,,, by them their own Island or let them in to the Vatican City,,,, OH,,, What!
Last week the Vatican government announced it had accepted a mother, father and two children who are Melkite Greek Catholics, and who have asked for asylum in Italy.
OH,,, How big of you, One Family of Catholics, and all those Muslims? You Bunch of Hypocrites!!!
And how hard is it to immigrate in to the Vatican City?
Rep. Michael Burgess, Texas Republican, said the U.S. is already doing its part to heed calls for compassion.
“The thing that always strikes me when we get into these discussions is the United States takes in more people every year legally than the rest of the world combined,” he said. “You stat from that premise — it was 1.7 million last year, you want to add another 400,000 to 600,000 that came in without the benefit of doing it the right way. What is the right number? If over 2 million is not enough, would someone please tell me what that right number is, and would other countries act accordingly.”
The Vatican, for its part, welcomes millions of visitors a year — but allows only a very select few, who meet strict criteria, to be admitted as residents or citizens.
Only about 450 of its 800 or so residents actually hold citizenship, according to a 2012 study by the Library of Congress. That study said citizens are either church cardinals who reside in the Vatican, the Holy See’s diplomats around the world, and those who have to reside in the city because of their jobs, such as the Swiss Guard.
Spouses and children who live in the city because of their relationship with citizens — including the Swiss Guard and workers such as the gardener — can also be granted citizenship. But that means few of the Vatican’s citizens are women.
A Vatican spokesman did not return an email seeking comment on its policy.
The strict policy has left the Vatican open to criticism in the past, including from right-wing political leaders in Italy who want tighter immigration controls in their country and have rebuffed the papacy’s calls for leniency by asking how many refugees live in the enclave. link
So,,,, you come to some one else's home and tell them to throw their doors open and allow their home to be trashed and their family Raped and Murdered. Now all this Spanish Speaking Illegals in America Believe they Have YOUR Blessing, a Blessing From Your God! POPE GO HOME!
I am in 100% agreement with you. This is such crap all the way around. All he is doing is trying to sound good so his illegal followers will give more money to the catholic church.
I do not feel chastised by the likes of him or his church in this. He can practice what he preaches and take all these illegals into his own country rather than try to force us to take them or simply shut his mouth concerning our country.
No right to preach to us about anything. I am not one of his followers. If I wanted to hear lectures from the pope I would attend the catholic church, which I don't.
36 When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. 37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 38 As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.
39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”
40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”
Who Knows,,,, Maybe she was and maybe she wasn't a Prostitute. But no one can say for sure she wasn't,,,, Now Can They,,,, who alive today was there? But then the Bible Was Really Wrote By Men!
During the Middle Ages she developed a reputation in Western Christianity as being a repentant prostitute or loose woman. However, these claims are not supported by the canonical gospels. link
Well, given that there is no evidence that she was a prostitute, I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt
Given the patriarchal orientation of Jewish culture in the time of Christ, early Christianity was surprisingly pro-female. It is quite astounding that the Gospels report that it was the women, not the Apostles, who were with Christ when he was crucified, and that they were the ones who discovered the empty tomb on Easter Sunday. If the Gospels had been invented by men, given the culture of the time, the role of the women would be understated, if not left out of the story entirely. Paul has his moments, where he reflects that Jewish patriarchal orientation quite succinctly, but even he testifies that many of the leaders in the early church were women.
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