Here is the whole quote...
“It follows that these separated churches and Communities, though we believe they suffer from defects, are deprived neither of significance nor importance in the mystery of salvation. In fact the Spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as instruments of salvation, whose value derives from that fullness of grace and of truth which has been entrusted to the Catholic Church”
So you don’t think that the Catholic church should think that your way of thinking is defective? Don’t you think the ways of the Catholic Church are defective?
The Vatican didn’t say Protestants but Protestant churches are defective. If they were just like the Catholics, they would be Catholic. If we were like the Protestants, we would be Protestant. You are not defective in the eyes of the Catholic church.
And thank you everyone who responded!!!!!
Thats like saying Americans aren’t defective but America is or I support the troops but not their mission.
Pure sophistry.
I would never be so self-righteous as to say any Christian church is “defective” like a three-legged dog or a blind cat.I may disagree with doctrines,but I don’t state that I,or WE believe that they are “defective.” Wrong,misguided,even unChristian perhaps,but “defective?”thats the word of a patronizing supremacist.
B-16s statement was subtle bigotry and unholy hubris pure and simple.He has yet to withdraw it though Catholics of all stripes have rationalized,to their own satisfaction at any rate,his “meant no harm.”