Open invitations from various prelates of Protestant "churches" to Catholics to leave the RCC. IOW, conversion wars, as if need more drama!
Will the world hate us more? That's not possible
The word doesn't just hate the Catholic Church.
Will the Anglicans ordain more homosexuals and women to spite us?
Catholics ordain homosexuals; they just don't allow them to practice it openly.
As for women, you can thank Apostle Paul for mentioning "Junia" as an apostle.
That will simply hasten the already accelerating disintegration of their Church.
Heretical "churches" have been in existence since the 1st century and show no signs of disintegrating...last time I checked, the numbers of Roman Catholic clergy and nuns suggest the Catholic Church has been nose diving for the past 40 or so years.
The "healthiest" growth is recorded with Islam which approaches if not equals the Catholic Church in membership, and cults such as Mormonism. The only thing that's keeping the Catholic Church numbers in America is a vast influx of (legala nd illegal) Latinos.
Will the Anglo-Catholics refuse to cross the Tiber and remain where they are in a sinking ship? That's their loss.
I don't care, my pay is the same. My point was, which you obviously missed, why was an invitation needed except as a publicity stunt?!
The Catholic Church gets "fallout" every day. It's in the fallout business
Oh, the poor suffering Catholic Church!
Uh.......you mean Protestants don't already proselytize?
Stop it..........you're killing me!!
I hope they do issue invitations. There's a bunch who do need to leave.
Like, yesterday.
Heretical "churches" have been in existence since the 1st century and show no signs of disintegrating...
Check again.
No "heretical" offshoot of Catholicism has been in existence since the first century. Heretical churches continue to arise (get it right) but they eventually sink.
You're watching one do just that right now. The Pope has launched a few lifeboats for those who'd like to survive.
last time I checked, the numbers of Roman Catholic clergy and nuns suggest the Catholic Church has been nose diving for the past 40 or so years.
The "numbers of Catholic clergy and nuns" have been rising and falling for 2,000 years. Heresy, persecution and apostasy have all played their part. It will be that way until the end of time.
Still waiting for you to tell us about this terrible fallout for the Catholic Church.
“Catholics ordain homosexuals; they just don’t allow them to practice it openly.As for women, you can thank Apostle Paul for mentioning “Junia” as an apostle” Although it is true that many closet homosexuals turn up as RC priests, the Church itself does not “knowingly” ordain them to the pastorate. The Roman Catholic stance on homosexuality is pretty much the same as most Christian denominations, and that is it is incompatible with the tenets of the faith. As for Junia ,the text of Romans 16:7 says that Junia along with Andronicus are outstanding among the apostles, meaning in the opinion of the apostles, these two had a great reputation. It does not mean that Andronicus or Junia were the apostles themselves. The chapter is citing all of those , men and women, who had worked hard for the church.
>>My point was, which you obviously missed, why was an invitation needed except as a publicity stunt?!<<
The point is, they are being given their own rite.
Like the Chaldeans. They can keep their married priests (although not the Bishops).
Just becoming Latin Catholic wouldn’t do it.
You may think of it as a publicity stunt. The Latin Catholics and Traditional Anglicans think of it as a solution.