They actually encouraged their sheeple to sign up for the settlement (since they had to pay it anyway) and then send the funds back to them. I was floored by the chutzpah. If somehow my family hadn’t already decided that GFA could never again be trusted, that probably would have done it.

Yikes.

It’s a calculated gamble. They know some people will take the check and move along. But they also know that some have bought in to “GFA persecution” and will happily sign over the check or donate an equal amount. What they don’t know is how many of which group.

You should have heard the stories the GFA Diaspora were telling during the early days. One involved a woman on her hands and knees in KP’s office picking out lint and hair from the carpet. She worked for a division KP named “servants quarters” which we were told to Indians brings back memories of the British occupation and that if used in India would imply that a man had a personal harem. That incident sparked quite a lively conversation which is now lost thanks to the corruption of the owners of Patheos.

We all know you don’t like the Pope, Mr J! And you are entitled to your view.

The Pope has a different but related problem. They all allow and encourage the practice of the laymen worshiping them. This is not just an RCC problem as I see this happening to various degrees everywhere in every denom. and “Christian” org. Even KP boasts of charity events and things he does to just look humble before the camera. In this way KP and the Pope are the same kind of hypocrites. If they wanted to actually be good, they would have to do what the angel in the Revelation of Jesus Christ did. When John tried to worship the angel the angel rebuked him. Human beings need to learn to do that. This practice of putting men up on pedestals to be fawned upon as celebrities by the masses just simply must end. It does not matter who the men are or what the name of their org. is. Idolatry is clearly evil by many, many different scriptures. God hates it and He is not behind or promoting the orgs. that do that…

The Pope has a different but related problem. They all allow and encourage the practice of the laymen worshiping them. This is not just an RCC problem as I see this happening to various degrees everywhere in every denom. and “Christian” org. Even KP boasts of charity events and things he does to just look humble before the camera. In this way KP and the Pope are the same kind of hypocrites. If they wanted to actually be good, they would have to do what the angel in the Revelation of Jesus Christ did. When John tried to worship the angel the angel rebuked him. Human beings need to learn to do that. This practice of putting men up on pedestals to be fawned upon as celebrities by the masses just simply must end. It does not matter who the men are or what the name of their org. is. Idolatry is clearly evil by many, many different scriptures. God hates it and He is not behind or promoting the orgs. that do that…

Correct me on this, but on Holy Thursday/Maundy Thursday/Tenebrae, isn’t the celebrant — whether priest, bishop, or even Pope — the one who WASHES the feet of laypeople? Some making the point to wash the feet of “the least of these”?