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To: Theo
We both know that your church finds its home in Rome.

False.

347 posted on 12/08/2009 9:31:48 PM PST 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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To: Petronski; narses
I just visited the Vatican's website. Didn't take long to find that they themselves highly esteem Rome, even labeling the Catholic Church as "the Roman Church":

"In exercising supreme, full, and immediate power in the universal Church, the Roman pontiff makes use of the departments of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority for the good of the churches and in the service of the sacred pastors."

The description of your "Holy Father":

"The Roman Pontiff, as the successor of Peter, is the perpetual and visible principle and foundation of unity of both the bishops and of the faithful."

I see the phrase "Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae" all over the Vatican's site. That's Latin for "Holy ROMAN Church."

It really is tiring trying to have a conversation with Roman Catholics, who keep trying to squirm away from the truths about their denomination. You speak of "come home to Rome" and publish books like "The Path to Rome" and "Home Sweet Rome," and then claim that there's nothing Roman about your church. Why not embrace the truth that your church finds its home in Rome, when it's so evident that its leaders consider its home to be in Rome?

537 posted on 12/09/2009 9:14:24 AM PST by Theo (May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
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