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To: A.A. Cunningham

If Catholics don’t need their relationship with God mediated by another institution, why the need for a pope? Or confession to a priest? How would a priest be able to tell you exactly what to do in order to be right with God? Why would you actually need to go to a church building to receive the body and blood of Christ — wafers and wine blessed by an agent of the church? Seems like an awful lot of reliance on a human institution to mediate the spiritual relationship.

If I am ignorant, please set me straight. I’m happy to learn, but am unmoved by simple assertions, without evidence, that I’m ignorant.


214 posted on 12/17/2007 1:07:55 PM PST by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
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To: BackInBlack
If God saves you, why the "need" for a Bible, or a computer or dinner?

For the rest, start here:

218 posted on 12/17/2007 1:14:54 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: BackInBlack
Why would you actually need to go to a church building to receive the body and blood of Christ

There is, of course, no need whatsoever to go to a church building to receive communion. My own parish, when it was first established, had Mass in a community building in our development. The Pope frequently has Mass in large stadiums or out of doors, and this is frequently done in the Church. Holy communion is often received outside of Mass, in Hospitals and nursing homes, and even at the believer's homes, in certain cases, usually of illness.

259 posted on 12/17/2007 7:11:20 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Huckabee asks if Mormons believe Jesus, devil are brothers)
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