Posted on 12/06/2020 5:52:05 PM PST by ebb tide
The Vatican’s Handbook on Ecumenism (December 4) admits breaking with Catholic tradition.
Number 17 claims that Catholics “not only can but indeed must” seek out opportunities to pray with other Christians, yet they should understand that some Christian communities don't practise joint prayer, ”as was once the case for the Catholic Church.” The handbook recommends praying together the psalms and scriptural canticles.
It is easy to show that the demands contained in the handbook oppose Catholic doctrine:
• Synod of Laodicea (363): “No one shall pray in common with heretics and schismatics.”
• Council of Carthage (397): “No one must either pray or sing psalms with heretics.”
• Canon Law (1917): “It is not licit for Catholics to attend or take part in an active way in non-Catholic ceremonies.”
• Congregation of the Holy Office (1949): “Any communication whatsoever in worship must be avoided.”
Handbook 20 recommends that Catholic and other Christian “ministers” preach during each other’s non-Eucharistic services.
Handbook 36 claims that the Faith and a “proper disposition” are sufficient for non-Catholics to receive Communion. The Council of Trent condemns this position and defines that Faith alone is NOT a sufficient basis for receiving Communion because Confession is also needed.
The Handbook manipulates the language by introducing words like “interconfessional” and “interchurch.” It uses the term "Churches" for non-catholic communities without distinction, capitalised for Orthodox communities and in the lowercase for Protestant sects.
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Vatican Admits Breaking Away From “What The Church Once Did”
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That’s putting it very mildly.
Vatican Admits Breaking Away From “What The Church Once Did”...
Like focus on saving souls :)
Stalin has overrun The Church...
You misspelled Satan.
Douay-Rheims Bible, Matthew 18:20:
“For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
P4L
“What The Church Once Did”
Like be Godly and respected by people?
The Vatican has been breaking away from “what the Church once did” since at least Nicea.
THIS ASSHAT WILL GET HIS IN THE END. If he is truly a believer, he wouldn’t be hijacking his own religion.
Yet another "New Normal."
Like being Christ to a lost and dying world?
That ship sailed a long time ago.
It’s whatever you would like it to be, right?
Martin Luther?
John Calvin?
John Knox?
Thomas Cranmer?
Go ahead; pick your poison.
Satan runs the Vatican now, and his son is Pope Francis.
Well, Stalin and Satan were the dynamic duo of sin.
Catholicism stopped being that centuries before any of them came on the scene.
That’s why the Catholic religion persecuted men who wanted to get the word of God into the language of the people.
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