To: OLD REGGIE
What if one were baptized as a Catholic, and was for a period of time a practicing Catholic, and his reading of Scripture caused him to abandon Catholicism, to deny the Real Presence, Immaculate Conception. Bodily Assumption, Papal Infallibility, etc. Would this person be a "Catholic" in your estimation? Everybody who is baptised Catholic is irrevocably marked as a Catholic. But such a person, to say the least, would not be a member in good standing. A first generation protester against the faith is the most culpable of those caught up in the Protestant revolt.
SD
To: SoothingDave
Everybody who is baptised Catholic is irrevocably marked as a Catholic. But such a person, to say the least, would not be a member in good standing. A first generation protester against the faith is the most culpable of those caught up in the Protestant revolt.
Or - those who become so disgusted they just quit the RCC and become agnostics or athiests. Are they part of the "Protestant" revolt?
122 posted on
04/01/2004 2:43:28 PM PST by
OLD REGGIE
((I am a cult of one! UNITARJEWMIAN) Maybe a Biblical Unitarian?)
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