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To: Ronaldus Magnus
In reading your posts this morning, I think you may be doing more harm than good. You post good things while at the same time you take swipes at posters questioning their prayer life, and then you say things like this
We have a good Pope. If you have a problem with a particular bishop, write a letter to Rome. Don't just attack the bishop's office.
Yes, you've said the truth i.e., the good Pope, respect for the office of bishop. But the rest has clearly been tried and failed. The sad part is that the Church you love only seems to respond when the money dries up and the press shines a light on the crimes inside. That makes the Catholic Church look really bad. I think the Church in America is in for a rough ride if it follows the course you suggest. Link:Should we prosecute the Catholic Church?
98 posted on 04/19/2002 6:47:45 AM PDT by OxfordMovement
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To: OxfordMovement
Yes, you've said the truth i.e., the good Pope, respect for the office of bishop. But the rest has clearly been tried and failed. The sad part is that the Church you love only seems to respond when the money dries up and the press shines a light on the crimes inside.

Unlike most of the other posters on this thread, I'm not ready to give up on the Church. As a protestant convert myself, I know that the successful schismatic movements were led by the conservatives of the era, not the liberals. Martin Luther and most of the reformers weren't out to destroy the church, they were attempting to save it. They were seeking the same "preservation and re-establishment of the truth of the Church" that the posters here are. The problem is that in so doing, they end up discarding so much of the good with the bad. The movements they start then ultimately attempt to destroy the Church. The Church's greatest enemies have all come from within Her with the intent of ridding Her of those they deem to be corrupt. Regardless of their intent, these posters are following the same path and all attempts should be made to correct them.

It's takes much less faith to fight on our own without God than to lay down our anger and put all our faith in Him. It's so easy to fall into despair when we see what these liberals have done, but it should never allow us to doubt that Christ will defend His Bride (even in the America). Nothing can justify actions which harm our own Church. Christ Himself gave us his sacrifice at Calvary as an example of the faith we should show in the midst of this kind of hopelessness.

105 posted on 04/19/2002 9:33:16 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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