Posted on 06/02/2015 11:07:22 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
Yes, Wikipedia is known to be suspect, to some extent. But it has gained quite a bit of respect in recent years. Five or ten years ago people were almost automatically mocked for quoting from it as if it were a serious source. And it has in some respects improved, but quite a bit of that masks some real deficiencies.
And being aware of the need to do due diligence beyond Wikipedia isn’t the same as actually doing it. As I mentioned, I’ve already been doing some of that, including having read most of the Reichskonkordat. I will look at your source, and this is another I’ve been attempting to read too, also on Google Books: The Church in the Modern Age, around page 195. Copying a link to post here didn’t work out for me. It’s going to take some time for me using Google Books for because the print is so small on my phone, but when I zoom in scrolling around doesn’t work well. But I’ll work on that tiny print a little at a time, or read it another way.
"If you do come up with an evidence-based correction for any part of my post, I would receive it with good will."
I am not refusing to believe anything but my own opinion: on the contrary, I am positively seeking information which would show where any part of my previous posts deviated from the facts. I am not immune to error, and when I make an error I want to be corrected.
Let me encourage you to go ahead and do so. My ears are perked.
OK?
If you truly knew, and "loved", what "the real Roman Catholic Church" was, I think you'd be a Roman Catholic. Putting aside the Prots, do you think there are mulitiple paths up the same mountain?
Do all your Archdioceses endanger children by failing to protect them from the men they ordained as priests? What kind of outfit are you guys running? But hey, remarriage after divorce without a bought and paid for annulment is the real serious sin, right? Or would it be the use of artificial birth control, that practice employed by more Latin women than protestant ones, which is the greatest sin? Both of those are worse than the buggery of children and covering it up, right? Different rules for the Latin Church and the minions of the “Vicar of Christ on Earth”, is that it?
You have shown your true colors, Koloko.
That's for sure.
Historically, the Catholic Church was not loved by non-Catholics, so I'm okay with that.
Blowing lots of covers lately...
I’m responding to what you say, which has included many assertions. Otherwise, I refer you to my previous replies.
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