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To: padre35
It is my understanding (and feel free to correct me if I am wrong my fellow RCC Freepers) that in Catholicism, the priest is the intermediary between Man and God, he offers the Eucharist and Baptizes etc. and that praying to the Saints or Mary is the laities access?

I'm sure I'm not worthy to answer. But in the RCC, the priest has all the same roles as a priest had in Israel. It is one of my complaints about RC doctrine but it doesn't bug me as much as Marianism. There is no priest but Christ for a Christian! After that we are all elevated to the roll of priest.

132 posted on 07/24/2007 11:05:34 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.)
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To: DungeonMaster

***I’m sure I’m not worthy to answer. But in the RCC, the priest has all the same roles as a priest had in Israel. It is one of my complaints about RC doctrine but it doesn’t bug me as much as Marianism. There is no priest but Christ for a Christian! After that we are all elevated to the roll of priest.***

What do you think the following verses mean:

“Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:” Matthew 28:20a

“Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.” John 20:22b-23

“And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Mathhew 16:19

How many books on Catholic theology have you read? Have you read the “Catechism of the Catholic Church?” If you haven’t ever read any Catholic books, you are not qualified to answer. This is not about what you THINK the Church teaches, it is about what the Church DOES teach. Truth vs. Falsehood Reality vs. Fiction


145 posted on 07/24/2007 11:36:57 AM PDT by nanetteclaret (Our Lady's Hat Society)
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