“’They leave here in love with Jesus, and come home in love with the Church.’”
I was excoriated here a couple days ago when I wrote that a friend of mine, an ex priest, said that when there’s a conflict between the Bible and the Catholic church, they always, always, ALWAYS opt for the church’s side. The Bible is not all that important.
I really hope that the RF can move beyond the vitriol that pretty much ruined it for me long ago. I hope that mutual respect would be the expected standard.
How can a priest say that? That is if he ever understood that the Bible is the expression of the Church in the New Testament and the People of God in the Old Testament?
The Church was rather well formed long before the Church gave us the Holy Bible, eventually in print for all, but not without contest as heresies certainly existed, as Sacred Scriptures gives account.
There is nothing in the Bible that is a threat to the Church. This priest was discounting both the Church and the Holy Bible, by attempting to pit one against the other.