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Really I see no problem with complaining about evangelizing on one hand and ecumenicalism on the other. That just shows the problem of calling people brothers when there is no common foundation between you and them.

Mostly posted for the fact that the Mormon church is eating away so many Catholics that Catholic Answers is making a special campaign. 150,000 a year is big. Since most Mormons are from the US, I assume that most of that is here.

Just asking.

Oh, and Mormons, please do not resort to the same name calling, such as using the term ANTI-Catholic, that the Catholics do. Playing the victim card is so, well, progressive.

From the Catholic Answers fund drive sheet found in the article:

What Catholics Don’t Know Can Hurt Them

Think the Mormons are just a group of nice folks who uphold family values, clean living, and American patriotism? Think ag ain.[sic]

Think the Mormons are just a slightly eccentric offshoot of traditional Protestant Christianity? Think again.

Think Mormons are actually Christian, accepting the core doctrines of Christianity? Think again!

The truth is that Mormonism is far different from what most people think it is.

Boy, Karl, tell us how the Mormons are not nice folks then...SHEESH! I don't say the same thing about any other religion, and I have been labeled many different "Anti-"this and "Anti-" that.

Again from the CA sheet:

• Mormon doctrines have changed—often.

• Mormons dropped some of their unpopular teachings in order to clean up their public image and appeal to more Americans.

Like the Catholic traditions of forced conversion, inquisition and crusade?

Ecumenicalism is stupid period. Getting caught preaching telling people that Mormons are NOT a group of nice folks who uphold family values, clean living, and American patriotism? Well Karl Keating, I think you owe a bunch of people an apology!

Catholics are targeted by Mormons because many Catholics can be swayed easily by Mormon arguments. That’s because many Catholics don’t know their own faith.”

I can't count the number of times I've had Catholics rag on me or act all indignant because someone posted some information about the LDS Church that points to their abberant doctrines, teachings or strange practices and accuse those people of being "hateful".

RECENT EXAMPLE HERE

What these Catholics don't realize is that they too are targets of the proseletzing wing of the LDS Church and that many of those who post here are motivated to be here in order to turn Catholics and Protestants away from their own faith and lead them into "another gospel".

Mormons by nature are Missionaries and this is their Missionary Field. If you are not a Mormon, then you are, in their minds, A GENTILE. And their goal is to make you one of them.

Now that may be a very noble goal, but nevertheless it is their goal. Their intentions may seem right to them and their motives may be pure, but not every way which seems right to a man leads to life.

Pro 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Inoculate yourselves:

2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

"In the first campaign Protestants are brethren whose opinion is consulted, in the second they are “anti-Catholics” with “slick propaganda” that must be thwarted. I have seen this conflicting attitude many times so it is worth pointing out."

What makes you think the Catholic Church considers the two groups to be synonymous??? There ARE certainly "anti-Catholic Protestants" (there are plenty of them here on this forum). There are others who are not "anti-Catholic"(evidently a small minority). No hypocrisy involved on the part of CA at all.