A retired teaching elder (minister) in the Presbyterian Church USA reflects on what it means to follow Jesus in the winter of his life.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Fellow Protestants: He's Not Your Pope!
To my fellow Protestants I say, along with Tony Jones, take a deep breath. He’s not your pope. To which I add: and you should thank God for it! Tony Jones writes: "If you or I, non-communicants in the Roman Catholic Church, were to approach the altar when Pope Francis was presiding at mass, he would not serve us the Eucharist. He wouldn’t recognize your non-Catholic marriage as sacramental in the eyes of God. And, if he agrees with his immediate predecessor, he does not think you attend a church. You attend an 'ecclesial community.'”
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