I think that the bashing should stop all around and I take the responsibility to admonish fellow Catholics. I do believe that threads such as this may well cause Jesus to weep. He died for our sins, suffering intensely, and yet so many who sincerely follow Him, regardless of denomination, trade bitter words with each other over doctrinal disputes. In the days of the early persecuted Church, pagans observed that you will know the Christians as those who love one another. We need to get back to that if, as I suspect, an age of persecution may soon begin. May God bless you and [protect you in such times to come, my sister in Christ Jesus.
Thank you for your gracious words and wishes.
I miss the debates....we use to learn massively even if we disagreed. Questions could be raised without feeling like you had to believe what the response was. It didn’t fell like sides needed to be taken....rather the search for truth.
Well, not everyone was interested in truth but those who were outnumbered the name callers and those who enjoyed taking their jabs in the midst of their response like they do now.