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But it also has well-publicized moral and ethical failings that preclude it from being perfection on Earth.

Oh, we aren't -- however, God keeps His Church on the right track. We have had bad priests and Pope before, but each time, God comes to His Church to clean i tup -- from the inside. You think we didn't have reformers IN the Church? We did -- St. Francis for one, St. Ignatius Loyola for another.

Where the Church does extend above the Protestant groups is that we are not man-made, with doctrine being created and preached by only one man, one pastor -- our teachings are from Christ, our Church doctors are those from the past 2000 years.

1,046 posted on 05/31/2008 6:01:37 AM PDT by Cronos ("Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, CAIR)

You think we didn't have reformers IN the Church? We did -- St. Francis for one, St. Ignatius Loyola for another.

The, ahem, Dominican (but who's counting ...) Pope Saint Pius V ...

1,063 posted on 05/31/2008 6:57:03 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)