You mean like the way Americans Fought off those people who were destroying the statues? Or the Americans who fought when the first coup was attempted? Or the Americans who went to war when the second coup was successful and took over a country?
I’m a Catholic and the pope can go to hell. But the future of the United States in terms of affecting the world is much greater than the Vatican these days.
Catholics and Americans should be rising up against the Vatican and our now close to dead Republic. But we won’t.
On both accounts, the Vatican and the United States, I don’t know what it will take for the good guys to finally Step Up.
Because that chance came and went in the US. To hell with the Vatican. All I need is the Bible to know how to live my life.
Yes, Scripture as the OT and NT is the only wholly inspired and substantive body of the word of God, and which - as regards the the Hebrew scriptures - provided the doctrinal and prophetic epistemological foundation for the NT church (Lk. 24:27,44,45) which progressively added to that body of writing, but if that is your supreme standard then you are not a Catholic (the many "true Catholics" here will tell you), thank God.
Catholic doctrine, as authoritatively proposed by the Church, should be held as the supreme law;... all interpretation is foolish and false which...is opposed to the doctrine of the Church.(Providentissimus Deus; http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18111893_providentissimus-deus_en.html)