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To: Mrs. Don-o

So you don’t think that your Parrish does not have to pay an ongoing “franchise” fee to the “Church”? They all do. Just where do you think your Parrish derives the funds to pay that fee?


14 posted on 04/11/2014 6:17:21 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: mazda77
My parish does not exist as an entity unto itself, nor should it: it is a part of a diocese (Local Church) which is part of the Universal Church. If that were not so, it would just be a sect. I am not interested in sects: branches cut off from the vine.

I owe my parish support, and I owe the Universal Church respect for the authority Christ gave it to teach, govern, and sanctify the flock. So there is no question of splitting my parish off from its Bishop, or from the Universal Church. That is a bogus move which, of course, is delightful to the Lowerarchy of demons, who exist to split and wreck, divide and kill.

Financially, I try to keep my support as local and as directly personal as possible. This is entirely in line with the Catholic moral principle of Subsidiarity. It does not imply the least schism in the areas of faith and morals, nor of legitimate Church governance.

As I said before, you have to make a careful distinction between an Apostlic Hierarchy and a clerical bureaucracy. The first has by unhesitating loyalty. The latter ... now that's another story.

26 posted on 04/11/2014 8:48:49 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Faith with love is the faith of Christians; without love, it is the faith of demons." - Ven. Bede)
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