Posted on 04/18/2002 10:46:10 AM PDT by Rum Tum Tugger
Married couples seek the holiness of daily life (doing small things for love of God, for example, a married lady who cooks and uses that action as a prayer. See "the little way" of St Theresa).
however, some are called to a different holiness, that of seeking God alone. This is why many religions have hermits, or holy men in forests, or groups of holy men who learn to seek God via prayer and silence.
The Biblical verse for this is where Martha is doing all the work and Mary is sitting just listening to Jesus. Martha complained, but was told that Mary sought the better thing and it would not be taken from her. Cathoics interpret this as those who sacrifice family life in order to seek God have a special calling and should not be criticized by more practical people.
Thank G-d for the resources of the Internet to "rebut" these people, and that with authority......
Purgatory was defined by Catholic Tradition... but you won't find anything about it in Scripture.I was right!
The author of this article proves that one does not have to be a non-Catholic to be anti-Catholic.But the whole NCR mob IS in fact non-Catholic, and yes, very much anti-Catholic.
Papal infallibility is exercised every time the Holy Father says it is, which is frequently, with encyclicals, etc.
It is also exercised every time the Holy Father declares someone a saint.
Papal infallibility has been exercised three times...
Papal infallibility is exercised every time the Holy Father says it is, which is frequently, with encyclicals, etc.
It is also exercised every time the Holy Father declares someone a saint.
You and I have been through this before. What you say is simply not true. Invoking papal infallibility has occurred three times. If you wish to pretend that it occurs like the rising of the sun, then you are free to believe that.
Catholics are not required, under pain of sin and loss of their immortal souls, that particular people are saints.
I already proved to you on another thread that the Holy Father declared that only men could be ordained priests infallibly. The fact that you refuse to believe infallible pronouncements have been made outside of your three examples is a problem you have with the faith, not me.
Catholics are not required, under pain of sin and loss of their immortal souls, that particular people are saints.
True, but they are still declared so infallibly, which is without error.
I don't think he questions whether Christ founded his Church on Peter. He is just saying that he does not believe that Christ intended that Peter (or the Pope) become an absolute monarch.
As for attacking the Pope's infallibility, you're right. That makes him a Protestant because the Infallibility of the Pope in matters of religion is an article of faith in the Catholic Church. You can't pick and choose. You have to buy the entire package.
That's one reason I'm a Protestant. Catholic doctrine has changed over the years. That means that either the current Pope is wrong about a matter of religion or a former Pope was -- since I don't believe that God is changing His mind. Therefore, I cannot believe in the infallibility of the Pope. It is a logical impossiblity.
As for the rest, I really don't care if Catholic priests are celibate. There's no scriptural basis for the requirement, but it's your religion. You can do what you want and there is a great deal to be said for tradition.
I will point out that I do not believe that the media attacks are really about allowing priests to marry. That's just phase 1. Next it will be allowing priests to be openly homosexual. That's the real agenda.
NCR has, for years, been the mouthpiece for a number of disaffected Bishops, priests, and laymen who STILL don't understand that the Church is not 'American' in any way, shape, fashion, or form.
Even some respondents on this page seem to ignore the fact that the Church is a SPIRITUAL body whose Head is Christ--and Peter is His representative on earth.
Even though some Peters were not, ah, well-bred, NONE of them has EVER contradicted doctrine or dogma--the REAL business of the Church.
Christ certainly did not establish a secular state--nor did He care much, likely, that the Church became one. Eventually, the Church figured it out and bailed out on most of its territories.
Now the Church has a postage-stamp inside of Rome.
So what?
NONE of us know the bed-time practices of the other Apostles.
What we DO know is that celibacy has been a written rule for Roman Rite priests (often broken, like other rules, by sinners...) since around the year 300 AD, and the WRITTEN rule may have been long preceded by the OBSERVED rule.
Parallel: the Assumption was 'observed' by the Faithful LONG before the proclamation was made in the early 1950's.
Sinky, it is at least a discipline.
One could also argue that insofar as it is a VERY long-standing tradition, affirmed in writing around 300 AD, that it has the force of permanent law.
Seems that many of the posters on this thread have forgotten about Tradition, which is fully ONE-HALF of the 'Scripture and Tradition' foundation of Church teaching and law.
We can always depend on the AmChurch and NCR to pick up where the anti-Catholics bigots leave off. I take this time to thank God for all who have worked to save the Church over the last years of struggle - God bless Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, Mother Angelica, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, Archbishop Chaput, Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR, Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR, Johnette Benkovic, Fr. Ed Sylvia, the staff of Catholic Answers, Bud Macfarlane, Jr., Michael O'Brien, and ...
Law? It's a discipline. If it were a law, there wouldn't be any exceptions to it, would there?
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