This should be a fun thread. Incoming!
Yeah well, let us know how the whole Pope-thing goes for you guys.
And Protestant leaders don’t consider Catholics Christian. Ho hum.
Whatever.
I don’t recall Christ being picky as to what denomination his followers were...............
The roman catholic church has no room to talk, pedophiles amongst them, worshipping of one man ‘the pope’ being called ‘holy father’ is absurd. Anyone who knows the content of the Bible knows, that the ONLY Holy Father resides in heaven. Jesus taught not to worship idols. The catholic church has distorted many verses in the Bible to fit their own agenda. Besides, in the endtime, their cult, and hypocracy will be exposed.
When he stands before the Lord on the last day and sees multitudes of “non-Roman Catholic” believers headed into Paradise, he will realize that he is not infallible.
I was born and raised Methodist. Not too long ago I realized how liberal they are. The Pope can list that denomination as defective as well.
APf
Before the flame wars start, remember this is AP, hardly a very credible source. Read the actual documents yourself before flaming away at each other.
That was a jerky thing to say.
Perhaps a Catholic scholar would help this Protestant understand. There is a passage in the Catechism of the Catholic Church that does state that other non-Catholic Christians can be received into heaven; if prodded I could produce the citation. How is that to be reconciled with today’s statement? Is the Pope changing the Catechism?
As a non-Catholic, I’m glad he says this. It is more honest and will lead to less confusion.
Everyone’s smarter than the Pope, that’s the most important thing!
Shouldn’t this be in the Religion forum?
I guess Benedict hopes that sounding like the Muzzies will get him some attention. Just what we need now as we face Jihadis on the move - another round of Christian infighting. Of course, those who know history are perfectly aware that the only reason the Moslem conquests were successful to begin with was that the various Christian princes and bishops and rites were fighting among themselves and did not unite against Islam, rather all sorts of byzantine (well, that’s where the word comes from) twists and turns of pitting one group against another and allying with the muzzies made the Christian East and then the West vulnerable to the Arabs. Bah!
Martin Luther proved otherwise, in case he missed it.
Hardly a surprise since the Catholics were the ones who originally gave Martin Luther and the rest of us Protestants the name Protestant. “One who protests” is certainly fitting. The Catholic Church has been protestable over the centuries.
yeah, well as long as "Basically reiterates ..." means "Says nothing at all like ...".
There's an important distinction between saying this or that is the sho' 'nuff Church (or is "fully" the Church), and saying what will happen to the members of this or that group.
This thread should be interesting indeed. I wonder if the Pro-Jack Chick/Alberto Rivera crowd will come out of hiding for this one.