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To: RussianConservative
Sorry, but we don't bend our knee to tyranny and turn blind eye in self serving "obedience" to earthly authority. We derive our law from God and we bend our knee to Christ no one else.

I'm sorry you feel that way, since Christ's words through St. Peter are quite specific: we are to submit to all Earthly authority except when such submission would conflict with our duty to God. Since you refuse to obey that command, you are outside of the Will of God. I'll pray for you, though, and ask for your prayers in return.

In the end, every schism boils down to “Nobody's going to tell us what to do” -- in other words, to Pride. Pride was Lucifer's sin; it was Adam's, too. Pride will send us all to hell if we do not conquer it!

Yours in Christian fraternity,

100 posted on 07/01/2003 9:20:03 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: B-Chan
At what point does autocracy in a divine institution become a sin?

When it causes the imprisonment and execution of dissidents?

When it concerns itself more with the acquisition of institutional wealth and power than it does with morality and common decency?

When it acquires vast holdings of money and real estate, and declines to use those blessings to reach out further, to alleviate the needs of the flock or to spiritually train the young?

When one office deems itself the sole arbiter of doctrine on faith and morals, and which decrees that it may never be wrong?

When it foists hopelessly immature men on the laity, plucked from youth before they even know what they want from their own lives?

When it insists that there are two standards of moral conduct - one for the laity and a more relaxed set for the clerics?

When it sets the parish clergy and the hierarchy as being somehow better than the laity?

109 posted on 07/01/2003 10:17:26 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine
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To: B-Chan; MarMema
Pride? Maybe that why, with your attitude, you not take responsability for Catholic Church's enabling of Nazies? Hmmm? So, when Pope was also Ceasar, what was his due?
126 posted on 07/01/2003 11:23:11 AM PDT by RussianConservative (Hristos: the Light of the World)
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