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To: Full Court
Actually, you're wrong again by saying

No they don't. Rome doesn't have the marks of the Body of Christ.

There are more Catholics than there are members of any other individual sect of Christianity.

184 posted on 02/15/2006 11:45:56 AM PST by AlaninSA (It's one nation under God -- brought to you by the Knights of Columbus)
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To: AlaninSA
There are more Catholics than there are members of any other individual sect of Christianity.

Yes, very telling isn't it? Especially in light of the fact that most catholics didn't chose Rome, they were born into catholic families.

Matthew 7:13  E
nter ye in at the strait gate:
for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat:

14  Because strait is the gate,
and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life,
and few there be that find it.

194 posted on 02/15/2006 11:52:36 AM PST by Full Court (Keepers at home, do you think it's optional?)
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To: AlaninSA

And there are a comparable number of Moslems and Pagans.
The cross was a lonely place- the Truth is not manifested by a headcount.


215 posted on 02/15/2006 12:12:09 PM PST by Bainbridge
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To: AlaninSA; Flavius Josephus
There are more Catholics than there are members of any other individual sect of Christianity.

Let me fix it for you- "there are more self identified Catholics than there are members of any other individual sect of Christianity".

The point being, obviously, is that a person who denies essential Catholic dogma or teachings is not Catholic. Consider the following:

"...fewer and fewer people who call themselves Catholic actually follow Church rules or accept Church doctrine. For example, a 1999 poll by the National Catholic Reporter shows that 77 percent believe a person can be a good Catholic without going to Mass every Sunday, 65 percent believe good Catholics can divorce and remarry, and 53 percent believe Catholics can have abortions and remain in good standing. Only 10 percent of lay religion teachers accept Church teaching on artificial birth control, according to a 2000 University of Notre Dame poll. And a New York Times poll revealed that 70 percent of Catholics age 18-44 believe the Eucharist is merely a "symbolic reminder" of Jesus."

http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20031208.html

Now, criticize the source if you wish, but there is no denying that there are huge numbers (? majority) of self-identified Catholics who do not believe in one or more Catholic teachings, at least in the U.S. I suspect it is the same or worse in Europe. They are not Catholics.
220 posted on 02/15/2006 12:22:53 PM PST by armydoc
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