LOL! Have you looked in a clean mirror lately? Are you now identifying as a Protestant since you reject your Pope(s) and Vatican II? You know, Martin Luther was excommunicated and a hit was put out on him for doing far less.
LOL! Have you looked in a clean mirror lately? Are you now identifying as a Protestant since you reject your Pope(s) and Vatican II? You know, Martin Luther was excommunicated and a hit was put out on him for doing far less.
LOL
Martin Luther was a Catholic priest. So was Jorge Bergoglio.
Tell me the difference between the two.
Let me remind you of the joke about Vatican II:
“The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life.”
I think there’s an awful lot to like in the documents of VAT2. But ... well, as someone with aesthetic pretensions, I’ve noted that a lot of Catholics seemed to think that Vat2 required tawdry modern art and music and cast out all that was beautiful.
And I know some older Catholics who seem to think that Vat2 authorized a do your own thing Xtianity without imposing the responsibilities of, you know, prayer, thought, and Scripture study.
Against THAT almost all complaints are and ought to be licit.
The hard core Latin Mass and “it’s been downhill ever since Trent” Catholics DO strike me as vey similar to some Protestants in preferring their notions before the obedience proper to the laity.
The current Pope is ... difficult. So some Catholics are failing the test. Me, I watch and pray.
When the going gets tough, the tough get praying. And when this papcpacy is over, maybe some of the noisiest dissenters will see that there’s a problem with trumpeting docility to JP2 and BenXVI, and then dissing Francis.
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In the meantime, most of us should be working and praying together.