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St. Peter wanted Jesus to call fire down from heaven to burn those who wouldn't respond favorably to the gospel. Jesus would not permit that. That is the bottom line for me.

Just because things were done a certain way in old testament times, does not mean that it should be that way now.

588 posted on 07/09/2003 11:59:01 AM PDT by TexConfederate1861 ("One cannot have God as his father who does not have Holy church as his mother"...St Cyril)

When we Protestants rebelled against Rome, it was always the hierarchy we were after.

Generally speaking, the ordinary village priests and believers were peaceful people, very sincere about seeking God. It was the hierarchy and the fraternal orders (especially Jesuits) and the various royal powerbrokers and financial interests that were the danger and the source of corruption and heresy.

I have no fear of rank-and-file RCs. Far from it. But someone like Hermann, who appears to have been in the hands of the rabid Jesuit element, are a different matter.