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2016-12-25 Olde Tyme Religion

Order of Malta to Pope Francis: Stay out of our internal affairs

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Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The knights trace their history to the 11th-century Crusades with the establishment of an infirmary in Jerusalem that cared for people of all faiths making pilgrimages to the Holy Land. It now counts 13,500 members and 100,000 staff and volunteers who provide health care in hospitals and clinics around the world and respond to war zones and natural disasters.

Indeed a major crack in the Church with that many dissenters.

Posted by Threting Gray4772 2016-12-25 00:53|| 2016-12-25 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Now, that could be a basis for a beutiful conspiracy theory

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-25 02:37|| 2016-12-25 02:37|| Front Page Top

#3 They know to keep the church at arms length, the don't want another Friday the 13th in their future...

Posted by 49 Pan 2016-12-25 16:07|| 2016-12-25 16:07|| Front Page Top

#4 From the link: "Francis on Thursday appointed a five-member commission to investigate the Dec. 8 ouster of Albrecht von Boeselager amid evidence that Francis' own envoy to the group, conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke, helped engineer it without his blessing.

One charge used against von Boeselager concerned a program that the order's Malteser International aid group had participated in several years ago with other aid groups to help sex slaves in Myanmar, including giving them condoms to protect them from HIV infection.

Church teaching bars the use of artificial contraception. Von Boeselager has said as soon as the order's headquarters in Rome learned of the condom distribution, two of the projects were immediately halted. A third continued, he said, because an abrupt end to the project would have deprived a poor region of Myanmar of all basic medical services. The project eventually ended after the Vatican's doctrine office intervened."

And yet:
Pope Francis signals openness to birth control for Zika virus

Zika must be, in the eyes of His Holiness a little more, er, "sexy?"

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-12-25 17:50|| 2016-12-25 17:50|| Front Page Top

#5 A Pope with no doctrine

Posted by newc 2016-12-25 21:56|| 2016-12-25 21:56|| Front Page Top

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