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To: BlackElk
Also, Jimmy Swaggert, James Bakker and Vicki Gene Robinson

You are actually starting to get it.  Swaggert et al are a disgrace and have been removed from fellowship by their churches.  They are certainly welcomed back if they repent and confess their sins before their brothers and sisters.  They will never be permitted in a leadership position again.  Swaggert and Bakker did great damage to the Church and so does the the sexual morass that the RC church continues to let fester.  Week after week seeing news stories about predatory priests and the bishops that protect them affects the entire Church not just the RC Church.  Sorry you are too myopic to see that.

122 posted on 12/27/2005 4:04:42 PM PST by gscc
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To: gscc; ninenot; sittnick; Salvation; Petronski
gscc: I am a Roman Catholic. You are not. Therefore, I may well "get it." AND you most certainly do NOT "get it." The Roman Catholic Church's internal governance is none of your insolent anti-Catholic business.

You don't actually suppose that any well-catechized Catholic is going to be affected in the slightest by the "Scriptural" errors that are the very definition of the deformed versions of "Christianity", do you? If you want to follow Jesus Christ, belong to and obey HIS Church (for those of you in Rio Linda, that would be the Roman Catholic Church as it is for everyone). If not, not. He gave free will to everyone. You may use free will in His service or abuse it as you do.

You cannot speak for the Rev. Mr. Swaggert or the Rev. Mr. Bakker or soi disant "Bishop" Vicki Gene either since you claim not to belong to their respective churches either or any church, for that matter, other than the church of you.

In the last analysis, you belong to the "church" of self-worshipping folks like you who think that a purported bible (however pathetic the "translation" as in the New, New, Absolutely New Interplanetary and Totally Dumbed Down Version, carefully "translated" by twisting language to fit into deformation niches) and a few reading lessons makes them theological experts. What on earth makes you think that any Catholic who has any business calling him/herself Catholic would waste a moment's time making believe that your personal opinions dressed up as "Scripture" for Halloween are remotely related to Christianity?

St. Thomas Aquinas vs. gscc? St. Thomas Aquinas! St. Charles Borromeo vs. gscc? St. Charles Borromeo! St. Ignatius Loyola vs. gscc? St. Ignatius Loyola! Etc.

The Roman Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ Himself vs. the tens of thousands of sects and multiple individuals too idiosyncratic to submit to any of them constituting collectively the church founded by Martin Luther nearly 1500 years after the sacrifice of Jesus Christ upon the cross. Ummmm, I am going with the Roman Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ Himself. Call me eccentric. Just the kind of elk I am.

I can tell you that whatever damage Swaggert and Bakker may have done, they did no damage whatsoever to the Roman Catholic Church to which neither has ever belonged. Likewise, whatever damage may have been done by all too many leftist, pro-homosexual AmChurch bishops and priests was done to the Roman Catholic Church and not to those who are quite certainly outside it such as you. The ecclesiastical remedy for the Bishop Protection Artists who coddled Fr. Faggot times a thousand or more lies excusively within the Roman Catholic Church as to the religious aspects. There is utterly nothing that you, as a committed heretic and non-member of the Roman Catholic Church can do or ought to be able to do. This is just as it is with Vicki Gene who is strictly Episcopalian/Anglican business and Swaggert and Bakker who are strictly Assembly of God business. No Catholic has anything relevant to say about any of the three of them. They are simply none of the business of Roman Catholics.

To the extent that you may be tempted to say that child molesting is a crime and is your business as a member of society, you would be right. Throw the Fr. Geoghans and the NAMBLA priest (Slattery????) in the slam for life at least as Mr. Geoghan and Mr. Slattery and whomever else. That is your business. If you can cause the jailing of Roger Cardinal Mahoney as Mr. Mahoney, you will find Catholic enthusiasm in support of your effort. It will probably also save us his pension expectations. List of additional "Mahoneys", "Geoghans" and "Slatterys" available on request.

The ecclesiastical side is the sole business of the Roman Catholic Church. Neither you nor any other non-Catholic has any standing whatsoever. We often don't listen to us. Why should we listen to you????? In fact, the First Amendment to our Constitution guarantees exactly that. Worry about your own problems and take that beam out of your eye.

129 posted on 12/28/2005 8:24:36 AM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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