If you admit to a need for reform, what steps have the RCC taken to address the cause of the rebellion, and the ongoing disparity?
I don't know nothin' about no disparity and would be grateful for more details and all. But as for Reform. Oh my goodness!
Following in the steps of St. Peter, the oaf, we frequently get a hold of the wrong end of the stick, but Pope St. Pius V kind of kicked some ecclesiastical butt (and allegedly tried to clean up Rome a little, too). While there are always setbacks and there is always corruption, my impression is that the level of scholarship and piety among Popes has, in the main, been on the rise since Pius V.
When you have what is more of a HUGE extended family, than the dictatorship we are depicted as being, there is always some weird guy somewhere - or even a bunch of weird guys doing stuff that the rest of us question. It blows my mind that the expectation (whether justified or not I do not know) among the migrant workers I have encountered is that the church is gong to charge fees for things like Baptism and Marriage. That suggests to me that there may be some bad stuff going on in Central America.
I hear the Philippine dioceses can be kind of rugged. But the Filipinos I met and work with in Church are fun and good folks.
In the 14+ years that I;ve been worsipping in the RCC the vast predominance of the preacing is what I'd call "Evangelical" in the sense that it is more and more often a proclamation of the Love of God in Jesus than a moral exhortation or an urging for folks to "Pay, Pray and Obey."
If my answer is totally irrelevant, please excuse me.
Jump on in, Dawg, Happy to have you.
I don't know nothin' about no disparity and would be grateful for more details and all.
I was speaking to the disparity between the RCC and the Protestant churches.
When you have what is more of a HUGE extended family, than the dictatorship we are depicted as being, there is always some weird guy somewhere - or even a bunch of weird guys doing stuff that the rest of us question.
Nice to see that it is much the same across the Tiber as it is among us 'great unwashed'... Please be so kind as to give the Protestant denominations the same understanding.
In the 14+ years that I;ve been worsipping in the RCC the vast predominance of the preacing is what I'd call "Evangelical" in the sense that it is more and more often a proclamation of the Love of God in Jesus than a moral exhortation or an urging for folks to "Pay, Pray and Obey."
Praise the Lord! The Good News is what it's all about... Don't get that 'worsipping' though.. is that where the extra sacramental wine goes? :D