re: I know Serbian peasants who are far better Catholics and who show it every day than what you are handing out.
I know Protestants that are better Catholics than Catholics, yet that does not make them Catholic. They are outside of the Church, where their is no salvation. Hopefully, they will convert before they die.
As for the rest that you wrote it’s just character assasination. If god outs people in front of you that know more than you, He is giving you a nudge to elearn your faith better. To advance in knowledge. Detractions and character assasinations are the stuff of children who do not want to be bothered.
No little band of morons gets to second guess the Church. The Church includes the congregants of the five Sees. When a splinter group walks away and loudly brays that it alone contains the wit and wisdom of all of Christendom, how does that separate it from anything that the Reformation has spawned?
As for the rest that you wrote it’s just character assasination. If god outs people in front of you that know more than you, He is giving you a nudge to elearn your faith better. To advance in knowledge. Detractions and character assasinations are the stuff of children who do not want to be bothered.
The Church says what the Church says; it is not beholden to a splinter group. Splitters and quitters do not make the rules either in the 1500s or in the 1900s. You either accept the Church or you don't. If you don't and consider your own group's doctrines and pronouncements to supersede Church doctrines and pronoucements, then you have removed yourself from the Church.
Sneering at the congregants of four of the five original Sees as non Catholic removes you from Catholic consideration and those who have asked to have you removed from any FR Catholic Caucus are absolutely correct and I back them completely. Come on back when you declare your Christianity.