[metmom]

Despite this, The Church has never promulgated a false dogma, giving evidence of the protection of the Holy Spirit.

Talk is cheap.

Let them back up their words with actions and they might gain back a little credibility.

Y'all Catholics who refuse to acknowledge the decay and corruption within and make excuses for it all, are like the band on the Titanic, playing the whole time the ship is going down.

There were people on that ship as well who didn't believe the facts they were told.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I for one, will not and have nor ignored the decay and corruption within the Catholic Church; nor will, I think, most Catholic FReepers. In fact, a significant percentage of them are making a kind of cottage industry over daily maximizing the public impact of the corruption (witness the almost no-popery publicity focus of some of the sedes here.)

There is, indeed, a lot of damage being done by hierarchs with low motives in high places. Very grieving to me and, I'm pretty sure, to the Holy Spirit.

However, when Catholics puts this into a realistic perspective by saying that this is not the formal promulgation of error in an official and authoritative form, they're saying they believe the backstop promise of Christ. The last link on the chain won't break and the last fiber on the frayed rope won't give.

Nevertheless, bad discipline negates sound doctrine; and confusion is mightier than the catechism. Perversions are being mainstreamed and souls are being lost. That is a mighty big problem, not entirely resolved by references to Matthew 16:18.