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And the fact is that the the history of the RCC is also filled with numerous corrupt immoral episodes and popes who were greedy and anything but Christian. While Christ is the head of the church, man-created organizations like the RCC run by falable men and no one church has a monopoly on the truth.

Those are the facts.


38 posted on 06/27/2009 10:36:28 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: SeaHawkFan
While Christ is the head of the church...

Yes! The Catholic Church.

...man-created organizations like the RCC run by falable men...

Perhaps the RCC is, but the head of the Catholic Church is Christ.

...and no one church has a monopoly on the truth.

Christ promised differently.

169 posted on 06/27/2009 2:00:40 PM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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And the fact is that the the history of the RCC is also filled with numerous corrupt immoral episodes and popes who were greedy and anything but Christian. While Christ is the head of the church, man-created organizations like the RCC run by falable men and no one church has a monopoly on the truth. Those are the facts.

almost the facts, but not quite...the corrupt (and there were) members of the church in no way diminishes her role as the true church of Jesus Christ. While Christ did not protect the church from being inhabited by idiots...He did promise that He would protect His church from any error in her teaching of faith and morals. Were there greedy and fallible popes...yes, but they were only fallible in their own humanity. People are just people...some better than others, but there is only one true Christian religion and that is Roman Catholicism. The Orthodox groups which split off are indeed true Catholic groups, but they lack full compliance in that they deny the primacy of the Pope....and yes, only one church (Catholic) has a monopoly on the COMPLETE truth.

686 posted on 01/15/2012 8:22:12 PM PST by terycarl (lurking, but well informed)
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