See the 2nd post. He refers to himself as “Roman Catholic.”
You Roman Catholics are all playing word games. We all know that you are ROMAN Catholic. Your documents prove this.
My point was he says grew up as a Catholic in a Catholic home and his parents and relatives were all practicing Catholics. If that were true he would have referred to himself as a Catholic not a “Roman Catholic”.
That means his story is probably fake.
He also talked about “Mary Worship” a weird term no one familiar with being a Catholic would use.
He also said that after attending the funeral of his aunt his main concern was not his love for her or his memories of her but criticizing her because she remained in the Catholic faith. This also struck me as weird.
There are many people who convert from Catholicism to other religions. That is their personal choice.
I just don't think this story is authentic.
As to poster #2, he was refuting the argument. It sounded like he was just throwing his own words back at him.
I have no idea what you are talking about when you say Catholics play word games but I do not wish to argue about about religion.
My faith is very important to me. Please respect that. Please let us love each other as our savior taught.
Actually, NYer is a Maronite Catholic. She hears Aramaic in her liturgies, not Latin. (Of course, they have some liturgies in the vernacular, but their origin is still from Aramaic)
I bet if you took a poll, you might find a Melkite or two around here and maybe even the occasional Syro-Malabar, as well and maybe even a Chaldean or two. If you were actually interested, I would imagine that NYer could give you a fairly decent breakout (she maintains the Eastern Catholic ping list, after all)
Just because you're Catholic doesn't, 100%, mean that you are ROMAN Catholic. In this country, it's a pretty good bet, but it's hardly a 100% likelihood.