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To: AskStPhilomena; sinkspur; GirlShortstop; sandyeggo; Grey Ghost II; seamole; dsc; Salvation; ...

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"But no, says Fr. Mauer, this is not the case at all, since conversion is no longer the primary mission of the missionaries. “John Paul II has told all missionaries going to Russia that we are forbidden to proselytize the Orthodox Christians,” he states complacently.

"This stands in direct opposition to the age-old Catholic teaching where the Church instructed her sons and daughters to fight against “the perfidy of heretics and schismatics.” Until Vatican II, the goal of missions was to convert heretics, schismatics, Jews, and pagans from the errors they professed in order to bring them into the bosom of the Church. After Vatican II, missions came to signify a movement of the Church of openness toward heretics, schismatics, Jews and pagans – without seeking their conversion (4). As Fr. Mauer states, proselytism is banned by the Pope himself. In the spirit of the “new evangelization,” the Church must adapt to others. Fr. Mauer’s words are an alarming indication of just how deeply the new progressivist doctrine has been imbedded in good-willed but misguided missionaries."


32 posted on 09/21/2004 8:23:26 PM PDT by Land of the Irish
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To: Land of the Irish
"This stands in direct opposition to the age-old Catholic teaching where the Church instructed her sons and daughters to fight against “the perfidy of heretics and schismatics.”

Dude, that was all before we had On Eagles Wings.

You need to lighten up. You act like eternal souls are at stake.

39 posted on 09/21/2004 8:38:37 PM PDT by Grey Ghost II
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To: Land of the Irish
You need not ping me LOTI.
Thank you.
42 posted on 09/21/2004 8:41:24 PM PDT by GirlShortstop (« O sublime humility! That the Lord... should humble Himself like this... »)
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