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To: Theo
Didn’t you get the Pope’s memo, Theo?

As a non-Catholic, evangelist, you aren’t Christian: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288841,00.html

Yes, [Evangelists] tend to be nice people with good values. But their doctrine is not compatible with [Catholic doctrine.]

Perhaps you might want to chew on that for a while before mounting your anti-Mormon soapbox.

461 posted on 09/19/2007 11:12:47 PM PDT by ComeUpHigher
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To: ComeUpHigher
Didn’t you get the Pope’s memo, Theo? As a non-Catholic, evangelist, you aren’t Christian

You are quite wrong. The Pope said no such thing, in fact has never said such a thing. The Catholic Church does not nor has She ever taught that non-Catholic evangelical Christians aren't Christian. And the very article you posted in support of your assertion doesn't even make the claim . Heck, the teaching of the Catholic Church is that anyone outside of the Catholic faith who is validly baptized is a member of the Church, albeit imperfectly.

From the article you linked:
The other communities "cannot be called 'churches' in the proper sense" because they do not have apostolic succession -- the ability to trace their bishops back to Christ's original apostles -- and therefore their priestly ordinations are not valid, it said.

That unchanging teaching of the Church was somehow widely misinterpreted into meaning that the Catholic Church was claiming that Christians outside of the Church were somehow not Christian. That could not be further from the truth.

480 posted on 09/19/2007 11:58:47 PM PDT by AHerald ("Be faithful to God ... do not bother about the ridicule of the foolish." - St. Pio of Pietrelcina)
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