I have been in such a quandry over whether the Catholic Church = the Vatican. That is, should I consider all the failings of the Pope and the Vatican as a reason to reject the Catholic church due to its imperfect leadership? Similarly, I come to the same question about my country: America = America’s Govt. All the failings, improprieties and illegalities perpetrated by my Govt. means my country sucks, too??? What do we do to bring it back to where it’s supposed to be? Walk away like you did because there is no way to change the Church from within? Walk away from my country because of the same reason?
When you have Catholics openly voting for pro abortion politicians/presidents etc, Catholics etc openly saying they support gay marriage abortion etc
When you have other so called Christian denominations, marrying homosexuals, ordaining Homosexuals etc
We have to choose at some point, are you with The Lord or not, people will have to ask themselves these questions, especially when they start to talk of moderation because of the times we live in etc.
There are many many Christian Churches, non denominational,many Pentecostal Churches the list is long, one does not have to continue with Churches that are not 150% Bible based.
If you walk in to a truly Christian Church,you will find ZERO pro choice members, you will find ZERO members that support any type of anti Christian non Biblical views.
You will find zero members that would even consider to vote Democrat
People will need to shake the dust off their boots and say...I AM WITH THE LORD JESUS
The selection for the next Pope will be the same as a political party picking a leader, no different
You are confusing impeccability with infallibility. Popes are humans and can sin — they are not impeccable.
But when they decree a dogma/or the magesterium does in matters of faith and morals — the decisions are always guided by the Holy Spiriit and become infalliable.
Revelation 18:4 "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
Revelation 18:4 "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;