Do you really think that Jesus cares if we use capitol letters or not?
As long as what we write is grounded in LOVE and TRUTH is what really matters.
Dear friend, What is in our HEARTS is what our Lord sees.
I wish you a Blessed evening!
Sometimes, people see Catholic with a big C and stop looking, when catholic with a little c can signify something ...well...more universal. I think that's sort of the point about our banter, which was fully good-natured.
"Do you really think that Jesus cares if we use capitol letters or not?
As long as what we write is grounded in LOVE and TRUTH is what really matters."
Oh, I'm quite sure it makes absolutely no difference to Christ, save perhaps to the extent that encouraging the fiction that the One Church of, say, the year 100 is the very same Church the reformers rebelled against in the 16th century or that +Ignatius as bishop of Antioch was the franchisee of a wholly owned Roman franchise keeps many people from reading The Fathers or coming to even a limited understanding of the first 1000 years of Church history.
The Church of the year 100 was not the Roman Catholic Church we see today, nor was The Church a creation of Constantine (neither was the Roman Catholic Church for that matter). It is a source of amazement to me, as an Orthodox Christian, that so many Protestants have such a visceral distaste and contempt for the Roman Church. To them, "Catholic" means "Roman Catholic", in their mythology a creation of the Emperor Constantine. They see that word and they either run away or attack. So I wonder, SFA, why do you Latins persist in creating an impression which only drives the heterodox away? Call statements "Catholic" or "Roman Catholic" all you want after the Reformation, but before the Great Schism it wasn't the "Roman Catholic Church", though there was the Church of Rome, and there wasn't a "Catholic Church", it was the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic church", or simply, the "catholic church", as the Fathers called it.