[Notwithstanding]

Manhattan may diappear, the US may fade away, and we will all surely die, yet the Church will be here in the year 3000 teaching the same infallible doctrines she always has.

[jimmyray]

(NIV) 1 Timothhy 4:1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

3. They forbid people to marry...

Either the Scripture is infallible or RC church doctrine is.

[roachie]

Aye. She'll still be here in 3000, and past that. This problem we have with priests causing strife now is just a ripple, but nothing will ever bring down the Church. Our Lord founded His Church and He said that things will come to try to bring it down but will not be successful.

[skr]

Yet celibacy for priests wasn't always required by the Catholic Church, so by 3000 that may change. Because the only infallible doctrine is about Jesus bringing us salvation, not whether or not the clergy can be married and still serve their parishioners. Not that celibacy has much to do with the immoral and criminal pedophilia that some of the priests are committing.

I'm wondering why we're only hearing about American priests. It seems highly unlikely that priests in other countries aren't having similar problems. Ot is the screening process over here less strict?