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Vatican Silences God? by T. S. Flanders – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Timothy S. Flanders earned a BA in Greek and Latin from Grand Valley State University in 2010 with special studies in history, writing and Arabic. As a result of his studies, he converted from Protestantism to Eastern Orthodoxy and began working in education among ages Kindergarten to adult. He then pursued a Masters’ Degree in Christian history and theology with the Catholic University of Ukraine. …

T. S. FlandersWell, the latest shoot-from-the-hip blast from Tucho “Heal Me with Your Mouth” Fernández dropped today, and I had the sad impression that the anti-Catholic caricature of Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor had finally come to life.

In the story, Our Lord Jesus Himself appears in Spain in the days of High Christendom and works a miracle. He’s immediately arrested by the corrupt Grand Inquisitor who does not deny that He is Jesus Himself, but fearlessly condemns Him to burn at the stake, having sold his own soul to the devil.

The document, however, is not called “The Grand Inquisitor,” but “Norms for Proceeding in the Discernment of Alleged Supernatural Phenomena.” I was surprised to find that the term “apparition” occurs less than 10 times in the document, but some form of “phenomen-” occurs over 71 times. ...