In other news, millions of disaffected Catholics try to get forgiveness in an unbiblical manner. Headquarters, in desparate need of the money, power, and new bathrobes, decides not to mention this grave error.
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You ever cross the Tiber? I once did, on a bus.
The Tiber is a muddy, turbulent cesspoll of a river.
Ever been to Lake Geneva? I’ve been there.
Cool, calm and refreshing.
Fitting, isn’t it?
Abandoning Jesus for the 700 Saints Club seems a bit of an overkill.
Not seeing the problem with the Catholic sacrament of reconciliation here. Christ gives His Church the authority to forgive sins.
How do you get your sins forgiven? Do you shyly admit Divine sinlessness? I hope not.
Do you boldly declare that Christ will forgive your sins whether you repent of them or not? I hope not!
Rather: I hope and trust that when you have sinned you go to Christ - as best you can - and repent.
So it is with the Church, which is Christ's body. We go to His body, where He is truly present. We confess our sins and repent of them, and we resolve not to sin again. And Christ forgives us. This is a simply tremendous thing!
Trust in Christ! Trust in the Divine Mercy! Don't be a stranger!
You (collective you) just can’t help yourself can you? Truly it is good that you believe in forensic justification.
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The fact is that for every one Protestant who converts to Rome, four Roman Catholics flee the papacy and become Protestant.
Funny you should mention money.
My daughter takes music lessons at a PCA church. My wife brought home one of their weekly bulletins. I was shocked to see that the monthly budget for this PCA church was something like twenty times the monthly budget for my bedraggled, old, velveteen bunny Catholic parish.
TWENTY times?!? (No, they don't have twenty times the membership; maybe 5 times if that.) Twenty times, and we're all about the money?
The sacrament of confession, BTW, does not involve a fee.