"This is lunacy!" MD, you have to remember that the objective standard of truth to the anti-Catholics is anything that substantiates their contempt for Catholicism, anything.....from any source. After all, if they found it on the internet it MUST be true.
Besides, with a new Decalogue given us by Jesus (the Two Greatest Comandments plus the Eight Beatitudes) does the discussion even pass the "so what" test?
What would you guys have us go to for an understanding of your beliefs? You tell us to go the early Church Father's writings, CB goes there, and POSTS to you their writing concerning the Scripture. As far as I can see, not one of you has commented on those, yet. You tell us to go the CCC, we go, and give you paragraphs that are inconsistent with Scripture. You tell us we just don't get it, it doesn't mean what it clearly states. You tell us to go to the history of the Church and read what actual Catholics have to say. We find Catholics who have left the Church, all for the same reasons, and have testimonies to what they were taught to believe. They are all the same testimonies. Have they all gotten together and devised an evil scheme to make Catholicism look bad? You say they were poorly catechized or were never REALLY Catholics or demented or whatever you need to say to dismiss their stories.
The only place you don't refer us to is God's Word. It's always GOd's Word PLUS something. You are the ones who will go to any source to substantiate your claims. Unless it is proven NOT to substantiate your claims at all. Then the goal post is once again moved.
If there is a place, other that the Written Word of God to find the absolute, unchanging truth, then please, show us. Everything you've shown so far has been met with one proof after another that it is indeed NOT truth.