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To: cpdiii; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; mitch5501; MamaB; ...
Catholics are mostly quite conservative as I an ex Catholic.

No. Survey after survey has reported in detail that at least half of those whom Rome manifestly considers to be members in life and in death are liberal, and traditionalists make up a small minority. In contrast to those who most strongly esteemed as the accurate and wholly inspired word of God, with its basic literal hermeneutic, who have long testified to being the most conservative and unified large religious body.

Oddly this infection came from the sixties as these progressives became professors in our universities and seminaries.

When leadership is made the supreme authority than than unchanging Scripture (as described above) then when leadership goes South then so do the flock that follows them, while dissident TradCaths essentially become like fundamental evangelicals in that they determine the validity of church teaching based upon their judgment of what past church teaching says and means.

But for us it is Scripture, while besides liberal theology,distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).

15 posted on 08/10/2020 3:49:45 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212; marshmallow; cpdiii; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; ..
Many US Catholics who have never been to third world countries don't realize how steeped in paganism Catholicism is in these parts of the world. There have been a number of articles posted here about the inclusion of Hinduism, Buddhism, or other such religions included in the Mass in these countries. I have been to a number of these countries and talked to several priest who dismiss satanic symbols in their churches such as pentagrams and zodiacs symbols. Idolatry abounds. But these articles are ignored.

Catholics are not mostly conservative. If anything they're mostly pagan. That being said, there are a lot of prosperity gospel Protestant churches in these places as well. But the difference between Protestants and Catholics is that Protestants generally act upon false teachings when they see it. Catholics just shrug their shoulders because it's all part of the Church.

17 posted on 08/10/2020 4:09:17 AM PDT by HarleyD
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