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"Christ brothers and sisters were his half brothers and sisters. Is that hard for you to understand. The trinity can be established in several ways but I like the scene of all three members of the Godhead being present at the Baptism of Jesus. As to Ecumenical councils, they are an invention of the Catholic church with no basis in scripture. Don't point me to the council at Jerusalem concerning circumcission. That was attended by apostles (Plural). Thought totally in error, the catholic church claims only one successor to the apostles, the Pope and he was not present at ano of the Councils decididing on the contents of the Bible. Incidently the seven extra books contained in the Catholic Bible were not there until placed there by the Catholic Church in 1521."

Wow. There's so much stuff in here that's blatantly wrong I don't have time to address it all. Let's pick out one thing for now and let it serve as representative of how completely ignorant you are of the Church you rail-on against.

"Thought totally in error, the catholic church claims only one successor to the apostles, the Pope"

ALL Catholic bishops are successors to the Apostles. That's what we've said as a Church all along. Nothing could be clearer, even if you don't agree with it.

The rest of this stuff I don't have time for. But the "Christ's brothers issue," the "Trinity," "Ecumenical Councils," and the "Canon of Scripture," are all fully laid out for your edification by Catholic members of this board - myself and many others - in posts just spanning the last few weeks. If you're "really" interested in learning what we *really* believe, and you do not simply want to go by the caricature of our beliefs you seem to consider a primary source, dig into the FR Religion archives and start reading.

Anyone posturing as a great critic of the Catholic Church who doesn't even know that we consider our bishops successors to the apostles has a LOT of reading to do to gain any credibility.