That is just plain horse hockey! How can you even pretend to know what the Catholic teaches on Mary or any other subject if you have never read AND studied the complete Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Canon Laws, and the Ecumenicals? When you attempt shout down learned Catholics and claiming that we believe something other than we profess you are practicing buffoonery. By substitute excepts from Google mining expeditions and blasphemous testimony received from the Rev. Billy-Bob Rolex for the actual words of the Catechism or the teachings of the Church Fathers you only result in moving others closer to the Church and yourself further from God.
“How can you even pretend to know what the Catholic teaches on Mary or any other subject if you have never read AND studied the complete Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Canon Laws, and the Ecumenicals?”
LOL. I was too busy watching people on FR post idolatrous worship to the being they call “Mary”. Not to mention seeing people inside RC churches bowing to, kneeling to, praying in front of, lighting candles to, placing flowers on, idols of Mary. OK, that’s not entirely true: I have also read all the info, gone through CCD, and I was even once a member of the Roman edifice. But instead of reading all that nonsense, why not simply read the Bible and follow and obey it? Christ’s yolk is much much much lighter than Rome’s.
“When you attempt shout down learned...”
Who’s shouting down whom here? All I’ve done is point to the Word and say “here’s what’s in it...’. And lo and behold just about everything the Vatican is doing is exactly opposite of what God says to do in the Bible. Then you come along and say ‘how dare you!!’ So, just who again is shouting down whom?
“...claiming that we believe something other than we profess...”
I haven’t made any claims about individual FReeper’s beliefs. I was talking about what the Vatican is doing. How should I know what you believe?
“...Google mining expeditions...”
“...blasphemous testimony...”
“...Rev. Billy-Bob Rolex...”
I have used none of these sources. Are you sure you are posting to the right person?
“...actual words of the Catechism...”
Why would I post doctrines of man and demon as my sources? I post Scripture to back my claims.
“...teachings of the Church Fathers...”
Would these be the men whom the Vatican sometimes thinks are heretics and other times say are authority, coincidently dependent on whether he is agreeing with Rome or not? Also, these men were around 100 years before the first pope donned his hat and so have nothing to do with Rome.
“..others closer to the Church and yourself further from God.”
By “Church” do you mean the Vatican? Or do you mean the Body of Christ?