Why the hatred dripping from every pore? I try to be friendly and even a little jocular in exchanges with you (you don't seriously think that I prize my Sunday School pin and bars more than my advanced degree?). But you always respond with this venomous condemnation - ravings against Catholic practices, Cardinal Newman in hell, etc.
I have never felt it necessary, advisable, or even charitable to wander over to whatever threads you and your compatriots use to discuss your beliefs and thunder condemnation and destruction. I also have not felt it necessary to lie and distort the teachings of your church.
To snatch away from the hands of Christians the New Testament, or to hold it closed against them by taking away from them the means of understanding it, is to close for them the mouth of Christ.
To forbid Christians to read Sacred Scripture, especially the Gospels, is to forbid the use of light to the sons of light, and to cause them to suffer a kind of excommunication."
- Clement XI, Unigenitus
As usual, I fear you are either egregiously misinformed, or . . .
To forbid Christians to read Sacred Scripture, especially the Gospels, is to forbid the use of light to the sons of light, and to cause them to suffer a kind of excommunication."
Save your sighs and practice your readings. Those particular statements you quoted were pronounced "Condemned" by Clement. If you had not drunk the Kool-Aid before checking the material, you would run from Rome. It is not "hatred dripping from every pore", but compassion we feel for the poor dupes who have been sucked in by Rome's travesty they call a "church". It is the devil's playground.