I suppose it will do me no good to point out the irony of FR Catholics (notorious for their support of evolution and higher criticism) defending the supernatural phenomena associated with the "anti-modern, medieval" Padre Pio. Do any of you suppose that Padre Pio believed in JEPD, or that Noah's Flood was a myth adapted from the Enuma Elish or that Adam and Eve were were not real people? Yet here you are, Biblical skeptics that you are, defending the miracles of a man who died forty years ago.
Do you think you do your cause any good refusing to answer questions but responding instead with childish insults? If you're going to complain about a thread being anti-Catholic, then respond to the charges; don't just show up to call the posters childish names. And making fun of King James English (the religious language of the traditional American Heartland culture) sounds like something Christopher Hitchens or Al Sharpton would do. If you aren't going to respond, then please ignore "anti-Catholic" threads. Your childish name-calling and attempts at ridicule simply make Catholics seem like another urban liberal immigrant "minority group" that screams "bigot" everytime it gets a splinter.
And finally, as for the fact that Protestants continue to splinter, that is because they regard truth to be more important than mere political unity. Your own Church is in a mess because it has exalted political unity above all other considerations.
“And finally, as for the fact that Protestants continue to splinter, that is because they regard truth to be more important than mere political unity.Protesting too much here...the article was written some time ago and the motivation is obvious to all seeking truth. If you want to launch attacks unimpeded, try another forum.
The Church has withstood the Ages and still stands as Christ stated.
No, I don't suppose he did. Yet I don't either. I suspect that quite a number of Catholics (and certainly a greater proportion on FR than in general) don't believe those things either. (A side point: Denial of Adam and Eve was explicitly denounced by Pius XII in his encyclical letter "Humani Generis.")
Denial of miracles (both ancient and modern) is a trait of the modernists.
whatever...yawn