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Notice...nearly all of the Catholic claims to authority reside in quotations from a catechism, a writer, a “priest”, a magazine, or a speech. Few, if any, reference the Bible. This bizarre thread needs a great deal of input from the Bible, but I doubt that interests the writer.

Their catechism is their bible...

This is foolish statement. The Books in the Bible did not fall from the skies. They were assembled by the Catholic Church in the Synod of Rome in 382AD It helps to understand theological history before you rush in where angels fear to tread.

Until the curse of the Reformation, eleven centuries later, we had (and continue to have ) ONE Church proclaiming, as it did when the books in the Bible were assembled infallibly, ONE truth.

That infallibility did not evaporate into ether because of the nonsense of Luther’s writings, contradicted by Calvin, and remade by Wesley. Who next? Another Jim Jones or Benny Hinn?

We do not need the multiple and conflicting “truths” of every brand and sub-brand of Protestantism (from Billy Graham to David Koresh and Jeremiah Wright) that are now collapsing and drying up like wild mushrooms when even preeminent Protestant theologians are decamping and converting to Catholicism.

Catholics have a single Truth as reflected in the Credo and the Catholic Catechism.