Let's wait and see what the Holy Father says when he visits. Perhaps he will call the Lutherans to convert.

I've attended Lutheran churches for close to thirty years now. I am an adult convert from atheism. For many years now I've been interested in the Catholic church. This week I stopped by the local Catholic church while looking for a book called Christian Prophecy by Niels Christian Hvidt. This was only my third visit to a Catholic church....Jesus went where the sick were..the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well....at a tax collector's home...He touched the unclean to heal them...and right now my heart swells with awe and love..By the way, I made an appt. at the Catholic church to visit with the pastor...I have to wait two weeks!!

Pretty fascinating. By what authority do the writers condemn Kasper and Benedict xvi as 'heretics' and 'apostates'? Sola Scriptura? If the Magesterium is shot full of holes, where do you go?

I remember being taught by our parish priests during Catechism classes that to even enter a church that was not Roman Catholic was a mortal sin because you might scandalize any fellow Catholic who saw you engaging in such extremely reprehensible behavior. Why you entered was immaterial, e.g., to attend a wedding or a funeral. I don't recall when it was said, or by whom, that it was no longer a mortal sin. You gotta give the players a list of the rules - publishing them in Latin ain't going to hack it if a person dosen't know about it. Whatever happened to the idea of rationality in religion? Richard

Some of these comments are so hateful and insulting,what happened to blessed are the peacemakers? Jesus often met with people who had contrary views didn't He? Some even decided to follow Him, others did not. I often remind myself of the Pharisee in the temple that Jesus spoke of;who was thanking God for not being one of the unclean types, and the other man begging God for forgiveness,he was the one forgiven not the self righteous one.

Jesus was explaining,teaching the mysteries of God to all sort of people of his time saying that his his food is to do first the business given to him by the Eternal Father. Would it be wonderful if the pope by his love and "charity in Truth" win them to the Catholic Church? Our long lost brother who may be really tired of hopelessly seeking and not finding Christ in the promises of their founder. The Catholic Church can support and nurture one's desires for holiness!

Benedict XVI, why didn't you glorify Jesus Christ just once in your address to the inter- religious community? Why do you speak of God and not His Son? Worry of offending pagan or heretical, schismatic leaders? Lack of fervor to save souls? Why no, God our Father is just as indifferent as you are that His Son is not loved, worshiped and glorified by all men on earth. Why Our Lord Jesus Christ did not mean that you and His Church should convert all men to Himself in order to save souls. Like you, the Father is absolutely indifferent that His Son and His Church is ignored, scorned and attacked by the likes of paganism, Judaism, protestantism, atheism, modernism . The fact that false religions DO NOT worship the Holy Trinity doesn't anger God, because you and the Vatican II religious sect tell and show us that we all worship the same God every time you go to pray in a synagogue or mosque or Lutheran church or pagan ritual. So what that we worship devils then, but the bible tells us that pagan religions are of the" devil" and we are not to mingle this way, because the Church would not have us be in union with devils. Hmm, but like who cares? But that's like so 2000 years ago: after all, now we have you, Benedict XVI, and all of Vatican II to lead us into the real truth. . . Why should I be Catholic again? Oh, yeah, because it's just soooo European, and who can resist that?

Unbelievable. He is going to "visit" the Lutheran Church. How nice. Have tea. When will this false ecumenism finally begin to dawn on Catholics around the world that it is not the Church's teaching. It is Vatican II's teaching, yes, but they have abandoned the teachings of the Catholic Church. To "visit" protestant churches is to engage in heresy. Again, not so with the Vatican II sect, but again the Vatican II sect is not Catholic because it does not adhere to the teaching of the Church. So sad, that Catholics think this Vatican bunch has permission to say and do anything and cannot fall into to the grave sin of heresy. Like a Bishop can't become a heretic or something? Look up Her teachings. One can become a heretic and lose the faith, even a bishop can, even the bishop of Rome can. But she also teaches that Once one becomes a heretic he is no longer a member of the Catholic CHurch. That is what the Church teaches. Look it up... Look it up. .. Learn the faith. Then open your eyes and ears to the things that are being said and done within the Vatican II sect. Then compare the things that were said and done by the Church before Vatican II. How can anyone recognize the Church of this sect with the Church of Christ, the Catholic Church? How!? This Vatican II sect is sickening and obscene. A revolution is long overdue- to take back the Vatican and all of her church buildings! Good day.

This an enormous mistake for the Pope to visit a Lutheran (or any Protestant) "church", because it gives the impression that the Lutherans, and all of the other tens of thousands of other Protestant cults, sects, "christian communities", ecclesial groups, or just plain lunatic Pentecostalists are all legitimate "churches". Which they are not. It is good to have respectful dialog with opposing Christian "groups" such as the Lutherans, Anglicans, etc. But not at the expense of watering down our own Catholic traditions and devotions and beliefs in order to accomodate Protestants (as was done after Vatican II with the so called "Novus Ordo" which took much of it's inspiration from Protestantism, and indeed warped the Catholic experience into something now much closer (at least in practice and appearance), to Lutheran and Anglican than we are to our own traditional Catholic devotions, Mass, and expression of "who we are". This is an insult to the Catholic Faith, an enormous blunder and violation of valid judgement on the part of the Pope which will bear NO good fruit. If you don't believe me, look at the Catholic Church in Germany. THey have engaged in ecumenical dialog and accomdation with these Lutherans for 40 years. Pope John Paul II notoriously signed the joint Catholic/Lutheran declaration on "justification" 10 years ago. But the Lutherans in Germany have just published a tremendously anti-Catholic report which has caused outrage and anger among Catholics.

When will the Catholic Church return to having TRUE Catholics running the Church that obey the teachings of Christ and the dogmas of his Catholic Church; And not heretics and apostates like Walter Kasper, Joseph Ratzinger, and the majority of the Vatican II "bishops"?! One thing is for certain, when the "Pope" goes to visit the lutheran "Church", he and Walter Kasper will fit right in with the rest of the heretics and apostates at that lutheran "Church"!