Osteen has had the opportunity to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2014, thanks to a trip organized by the International Foundation. It was part of a small delegation of north-america, which he visited Rome, “to promote ecumenical prayer and inter-religious understanding”, as revealed by the News Deseret. On this trip to see the Pope drew the ire of one of the preachers of the fundamentalist, Texas, pastor Mark Herridge Sr. of the Church of the Lighthouse, the Pentecostals. He Said Herridge The network-Christian News“Any ministry of the protestant, which is bound up with the Pope and the catholic faith is love, the sacrifice of millions of faithful christians that have died at the hands of this religion and the brutal, dictatorial and oppressive, that he has never represented the Church of the Living God, as outlined in the New education of the will “.
Even so, the Pope is the head of the Church in Lakewood to share one main objective: to expand the membership of the church all over the world. In the view of the pope, Osteen said Chron., “I like the fact that the pope is trying to make the church larger, not smaller. It is not pushing people, but the one that is causing the church to be more inclusive. It’s over for me.”
As the leader of the megaiglesia time to distribute the good things of the prosperity gospel of Osteen doesn’t resonate with Pope Francis. Two of his top aides, wrote in an article entitled, “The gospel of wealth: the dangerous and the different,” the diary of a jesuit priest, which was approved by the Vatican. The Civilta Cattolica, – and when they had called to Osteen for his name.
