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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: Full Court

"Many are called, but few are chosen." Matthew 22:14

I don't doubt for a second that many, many so-called Catholics are headed down the "broad way" rather than the "narrow way" these days. We orthodox Catholics see evidence of this weekly in endlessly long communion lines and virtually non-existent confession lines. Unless this remarkable set of circumstances derives from the notion that we are all, in fact, pillars of sanctity with no need to confess our sins, St. Paul tells us that such many Catholics stand in peril (1Corinthians 11:23-30). So, on those grounds alone, I don't doubt what you imply.

But you arrive there falsely, for you suppose that the Catholic Faith is itself the "broad way," and inherently evil. We would BOTH do well to avoid playing the "numbers game," these days! All of Christianity suffers from terminal mediocrity and lack of true conviction, especially in the West. That the institutional Catholic Church here is not, in many cases, teaching the fullness of its own doctrine, does not militate against that doctrine. It only says that there are many unworthy leaders and teachers in the Church today. Yet, even here, there is evidence that the next generation of Catholic priests (within which is contained the next generation of bishops!) is much more solid in its understanding and transmission of the Faith. If, in fact, the long prayed-for "restoration" occurs because of such men, to what extent will your citation of Matthew 7:13 apply then?


251 posted on 02/15/2006 1:25:49 PM PST by magisterium
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To: Full Court

You ignorant fool.

Open yourself up to more than the sewage spewing from whatever "minister" you have at whatever "church" you claim to attend.


280 posted on 02/15/2006 4:02:33 PM PST by AlaninSA (It's one nation under God -- brought to you by the Knights of Columbus)
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To: Full Court

A great many non-Catholic Christians were born into their "faith". However there is this mentality in a number of them that they are interchangeable. Just shop for what is convenient to your lifestyle.


288 posted on 02/15/2006 4:30:06 PM PST by Jaded (The truth shall set you free, but lying to yourself turns you French.)
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