AnalogReigns WROTE:
It is also a fact that all kinds of people—including important theologians—with all kinds of contradictory beliefs call themselves Roman Catholic—and have not been formally, publicly removed from the Roman Church .
It is the exception of our times. They are not the rule of all times. A blip in time. Those dissenting theologinas have no authority. The popes have not declared any new doctrines from those theologinas. During the Arian heresy it is said that there were practically no Catholic bishops that had not gone Arian, it last a few decades and the Church cam out clensed of the heresy.
AnalogReigns WROTE;
If you take officially stated doctrines,
Doctrines must be adhered to under under penalty of excommunication. there are no new doctrines. You don’t know what doctrines are.
AnalogReigns WRTE:
plus all the varied opinions of baptized Roman Catholics (Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy come to mind....)(not to mention, variations in Tradition), you have as many or more variations of belief and practice as you find amidst Protestants.
verdadjusticia ANSWERS:
those individuals have no authority, they are not authorities. They are nobodies. The Protestant church authorities have changed all their doctrines over time. The pope has not changed any dogmas (defined infallible doctrines)
AnalogReigns WROTE:
The Roman Church itself—since it originally consisted of only one of the 5 original principalities of the Church—broke away from the Eastern Church in AD 1054.
verdadjusticia ANSWERS:
No credible historian aggrees with your outlandish memory of history. Read your Brittania Encyclopedia and see for yourself who broke away from who. Your comment is not even worthy of a response.
AnalogReigns WROTE: From the Eastern point of view it is the Latin church which was schismatic...
verdadjusticia ANSWERED:
If you really believe that, then you should become an Eastern Orthodox, for it is the true Church.
verdadjusticia RESPONDS:
It is the exception of our times. They are not the rule of all times. A blip in time. Those dissenting theologians have no authority. The popes have not declared any new doctrines from those theologians. During the Arian heresy it is said that there were practically no Catholic bishops that had not gone Arian, it lasted a few decades and the Church came out of it cleansed of the heresy.
AnalogReigns WROTE;
If you take officially stated doctrines,
verdadjusticia RESPONDS:
Doctrines must be adhered to under under penalty of excommunication. there are no new doctrines. You don’t know what doctrines are.
AnalogReigns WROTE:
plus all the varied opinions of baptized Roman Catholics (Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy come to mind....)(not to mention, variations in Tradition), you have as many or more variations of belief and practice as you find amidst Protestants.
verdadjusticia ANSWERS:
those individuals have no authority, they are not authorities. They are nobodies. The Protestant church authorities have changed all their doctrines over time. The pope has not changed any dogmas (defined infallible doctrines)
AnalogReigns WROTE:
The Roman Church itself—since it originally consisted of only one of the 5 original principalities of the Church—broke away from the Eastern Church in AD 1054.
verdadjusticia ANSWERS:
No credible historian agrees with your outlandish memory of history. Read your Brittania Encyclopedia and see for yourself who broke away from who. Your comment is not even worthy of a response.
AnalogReigns WROTE: From the Eastern point of view it is the Latin church which was schismatic...
verdadjusticia ANSWERED:
If you really believe that, then you should become an Eastern Orthodox, for it is the true Church.