Posted on 08/31/2014 6:59:37 PM PDT by ebb tide
It's quite possible that the girls are a bunch of poor-catechized Catholics that didn't pay enough attention to Sister Mary Elizbeth in school.
When their knuckles healed they bolted to the PROTs, only to realize that Mother Church WOULD receive them back into full fellowship again.
Please bear with them as them come back up to speed.
Romans 14:1-4
1 Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions. 2 One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only. 3 The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
But...
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another,
beware lest you be consumed by one another!
Sigh....
Just like every LEO just HATES to be called to attempt to end a furball of a family disturbance of the peace; when he arrives the quarreling members suddenly FORGET that THEY were fighting each OTHER and they turn, en masse, and LEAP on the officer!
Now THIS is downright vicious!
Not at this point in history.
What my point was is that the mindset is alive and well, and I am grateful to God that there are mechanisms in place that prevent those desires from being able to be fulfilled.
Problem is, with that kind of thinking still being more widespread within Catholicism that I would have imagined, it goes to show that nothing has really changed within it. Only that external sources prevent them from acting on it and that given the chance, I don't doubt that we'd see action, if it were possible.
Please. Let me know when some limp-wristed, evolutionist, Democrat bishop starts building pyres.
They wouldn't. They'd just look the other way while someone else did.
Atta boy!!
Take the high road!!
Sometimes those partaking in an improv routine have to stop the jokes and deal with an audience heckler.
LOts of folks 'believe' that a lot of things that Catholics do are not Christian.
Ah...
Like narses; seems sometimes that YOU are rather wrong; too.
And so selective; too!
Oh! to have the forgiveness shown THESE folks have received:
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
It's GOOD to be the King!!
Unless you’re an SSPXer, I doubt you fully grasp the subject of this discussion, so your comment is neither helpful nor appropriate.
'Poorly Catechized' covers a multitude of sins...
They DO??
Ha ha ha!
(Cue Mr.T's favorite response here.)
There's yer problem; as I see it.
I, for one, could NEVER read over a thread and THEN decide to join in.
I usually start at reply #1, an then let the chips fall where they may...
Wow, I think your last comment would apply across the board today with the majority of church leaders. They are more afraid of losing their C3 status than facing the Judgement.
Let’s remove our own planks before trying to focus on their stye. Niemoller and his supporters were a definite minority.
HMMMmmm...
...not yet.
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