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I have had evangelical friends say to me privately that for the first time in their lives they see the value of a magisterium ...

For Catholics, it is so obvious that our Lord would not abandon His sheep but give us a shepherd to guide the Church through good times and bad. How truly blessed are we.

2 posted on 03/16/2009 1:39:08 PM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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To: NYer

For Protestants, it is not so obvious. Ephesians 4:11-12, “God gave some...as pastor-teachers...”


5 posted on 03/16/2009 1:42:47 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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Don’t worry, a time will come when all the faiths of the world will be united under one Shepard.


6 posted on 03/16/2009 1:44:11 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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I have a lot of dear protestant friends. Some of them have passed on, and I believe some of them have made it to heaven. They now see God and the Holy Virgin as is, as opposed to what they thought, to which I now say to them, “I told you so.”


22 posted on 03/16/2009 4:12:36 PM PDT by m4629
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