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Impossible, as the church of Rome is largely invisible in the NT. For the NT church manifestly did not teach perpetual ensured magisterial infallibility, which is unseen and unnecessary in the life of the church, as is her separate class of believers distinctively titled "priests ," offering up "real" human flesh and blood as a sacrifice for sin, and literally consuming this to obtain spiritual life, around which act all else revolves, and looking to Peter as the first of a line of exalted infallible popes reigning over the church from Rome (which even Catholic scholarship provides testimony against), and a separate class of believers distinctively titled "saints," and praying to created beings in Heaven, and being formally justified by ones own sanctification/holiness, and thus enduring postmortem purifying torments in order to become good enough to enter Heaven, and saying rote prayers to obtain early release from it, and requiring clerical celibacy as the norm, among other things.

I think that is the longest sentence that I have ever seen!!!

I think that is the longest sentence that I have ever seen!!!

Yes, it is long, but only one, and not complex, which could easily be split up (next time maybe). And as you might know, i usually write with many short paragraphs.

But as a RC you should be used to long sentences. Just one of the many examples of the plethora of papal prolixity, is an encyclical (QUADRAGESIMO ANNO, POPE PIUS Xl ,MAY 15, 1931) of over 20,000 words, with more than one paragraph of over 400 words, and at least one sentence of over 90 words!

Still, WP says, "Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club appears to hold the record at 13,955 words."