To: SteamshipTime
No, just bringing up the issue is not "anti-Catholic", but the author's distortion and outright falsification of history borders on it. For just one instance, papal supremacy and infallibility were accepted as far back as the third century, in available records, and undoubtedly had a long history before that. These were no "late inventions", even if celibacy (a mere regulation, not a doctrine) may have been.
To: foghornleghorn
In reviewing this thread, I think if the Pope were to wake up tomorrow and declare that priests should administer the Sacraments stark naked, it would cause less of a stir.
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