[melsec]

I would like to think that it is because Catholicism has stuck to it’s core values and beliefs where most other churches seems to have left their’s. Members of the Catholic Church may not have always done right by others in the Church but that is rather inspite of it’s teachings rather than because of them. The truth does not change and with many Protestant Churches being blown about by every whid and change of doctrine people need a safe harbor!

Mel

[NYer]

Thank you, Mel, for sharing your sagesse. Indeed, over the course of its history, there have been members of the Catholic Church who have, as you say, "not done right by others in the Church". The Church cannot err. Individual clergy may commit sins, even popes commit sins because in the Church there are both "weeds and wheat" (Matthew 13:30).

The truth does not change and with many Protestant Churches being blown about by every whid and change of doctrine people need a safe harbor!

Your words immediately brought me back to the Pro-Eligendo homily given by then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger who presided over the Mass before the Cardinals entered the conclave. In his homily, he said:

How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.
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How many people have replaced Church with television, a pastor with a reporter, sacraments with sports?! What a great gift we have been given by Christ!