“Why do you post comments on a FR article on the relics of Catholic saints? What is your background?”
Because I care that falsehood and perversion is not promulgated as truth.
“Your talking points are indistinguishable from that of a freemason.”
If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
“Besides laying claim that the Catholic Church is totally corrupt, what is it that you believe?”
Scripture and Him.
“Our parish priest mentioned just the other day that the Church actually makes us holy ... we are made holy by the beliefs, the prayers, the fastings, the liturgy, the Sacraments, “
Christ alone makes us holy and nothing else.
“We get a bad Pope, and bad bishops and cardinals. But should we walk away and abandon the Church when she needs us the most? ”
Rather, come to Christ and walk away from perversity and beads and relics and the false sacraments.
It seems from your posts that you may not even recognize the depravity that has been Rome for more than a thousand years.
Is the priest/leadership of Rome worse than selling the papacy? Selling indulgences? Gays in the Vatican? The slaughter of believers?
No. It continues to brinf forth evil works. It is a sad situation that has been around forever.
Yet Christ alone offers salvation, eternal life with Him, and forgiveness from all sin.
You cannot put words in my mouth by selectively cutting and pasting my comments. Everything good thing we receive from the Catholic Church, all of the Grace comes from Christ. We are the original Christians, but we don’t generally use that term anymore because it has been co-opted by man-made sects in much the same way as the word “gay” has been ruined by the fudge packers.
Your Word is our gift to you. It was Catholics who carefully transmitted the Sacred Scriptures down through the centuries using monks, ink, and sheep velum. When the printing press was invented, it was a Catholic who invented it.
But if you want to believe that “true” christianity somehow appeared on the planet Earth 1500 years after Christ walked it, I’ve got an Avenatti sexual assault allegation I would like to sell you.
True Christianity has weathered many storms. Often it was up to just a few to stay the course (e.g. Athanasius). But she sailed on. Because the Catholic Church is not the work of man, it is the work of the Holy Spirit. In fact, it is a miracle of Grace that it has persisted. It is the city seated on the hill that cannot be hid.