Posted on 07/17/2007 8:39:01 PM PDT by Victory111
Pope Benedict XVI has drawn fire from Protestants worldwide for saying in early July of 2007, that they are not part of the true church. Protestants have weighed in and the response has included everything from disappointment to anger.
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Great article.
-A8
Agreed.
That is not what the pop said!
Make that Pope, not pop.
And to think, I just sat down with a bowl of popcorn. Really.
What did he say?
Other than what he said?
He said that somehow the Church must be present in faithful non-Catholic assemblies but that the Church “subsists” in the Roman Church.
Everyone seems to be taking this statement as an attack. It isn’t. It’s a statement of the Catholic Church’s self -understanding as the Church that Christ founded.
It is what Rome has said all along.
The document tries to find language that includes others while being true to itself.
All of the hollering was mostly generated by non-Catholic Christians responding to the complaints of secularist journalists and liberal Protestants.
By the way, I am NOT Roman Catholic and do not agree with the claim that the Roman Catholic Church is the one church. I just admire their honesty and charity.
Other than this very last paragraph, the article is garbage.
Quote from the article:
“Protestants have weighed in and the response has included everything from disappointment to anger.”
Who cares? Does it matter what they think?
No, but it does matter that we Protestants be allowed to think it -and, yes, say it.
By the way, I do not expect the Pope to think otherwise. If he did he should become a Protestant like me. I am also delighted he says it - that does come, after all, under his job description.
And I, for one, will not shrink from expiating the contrary.
Shouldn't that be popecorn?
You might want to proofread better (or check your dictionary!) -- I think you're saying something you didn't mean to! ;-)
Pardon my Malaprop.
Pope Benedict XVI has drawn fire from Protestants worldwide for saying in early July of 2007, that they are not part of the true church.
What the statement actually says - drawing on Dominus Iesus of which this staqtement is a clarification, is that their assemblies are not truoly churches. But they, if Baptized ARE part of the true church.
Protestants have weighed in and the response has included everything from disappointment to anger.
And some -- as posted on FR -- have said they quite understand, and, understanding, disagree. Why should the writer reduce everything, in the mode of the lame stream media, to emotion? Is it perhaps because thought, reason, truth, and things of that kind don't matter to him as much as feelings? I didn't read click the link to the article because if somebody starts so poorly, the odds that things will get better are poor. My personal FEELINGS about the Catholic church are a roller-coaster. I joined because of what I THINK of it.
“But they, if Baptized ARE part of the true church.”
Minor correction. ...if PROPERLY baptized.... There are religious institutions who purport to “baptize”, but whose baptisms are not recognized as valid (Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, for instance).
http://www.archdiocesesantafe.org/Offices/Worship/RCIA/RCIAInformation/Baptisms.pdf
If Dr Steve had been elected Pope we woudln’t be having this discussion right now.
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