[SoothingDave]

BTW dave, it is not an attack to expose the Truth of papist perversions and atrocities, although I realize that you like to think they are attacks, motivated by a blindness to the evils committed, and a sense of "political correctness"---the Truth is always "felt" like an attack by the guilty. It's not healthy to have such an unbalanced view of things whereby you ignore and sweep under the rug(just like the EX papist said in her letter) the evil committed by the papist church. I certainly didn't try to sweep the evils committed by the likes of Jimmy Swaggart or Jim Baker under the rug----myself and responsible Christians spoke out against their evils and called for repentance, as we do with others---why don't you do the same with evils within Romanism?

You don't know me very well. I am not defending these men or these bishops who engaged in these practices and covered it up.

So I don't know why you go on pontificating as if I were defending these actions. Kind of takes the wind out of your sails, don't it?

What your main problem is is that you are taking these events and trying to say something about the Church and how She has acted throughout history. This just isn't possible to do if one wants to be taken seriously. I don't take the actions of the last 40 years to judge America's character, why would you do that for the Church?

I did find this amusing:

Rome was and is the ultimate authority, and the bishops--such as Cardinal Bernard Law in Boston--follow with blind obedience.

LOL. Ha Ha Ha. We all know how the American bishops just follow in lockstep with everything Rome says. The writer of this thought, and apparently you for aproving of it, reveals a total lack of understanding of the political turmoil going on inside the Church since at least the post-conciliar period.

Dave, don't you know that the Physician cannot heal that which doesn't know it's sick? Don't you know, that the righteous, have no need of the Savior? Keep trying to sweep those evils under the rug and having an unhealthy, unbalanced view of the evils and atrocities of the papist church, and yule find that you are only fooling yourself.

Merry Christmas to you as well. God bless.

SD

[Isaiah_66_2]

What your main problem is is that you are taking thse events and trying to say something about the church and how she has acted throughout history.

Oh no, dave, the events speak for themselves, about how the papist church has acted consistently throughout history.
Now, you can continue to deny the consistent pattern of actions throughout history by the papist church, but the history stands for itself.