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To: churchillbuff

Catholics excluded from the list?


11 posted on 08/03/2005 1:55:13 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right
Catholics excluded from the list?

"They are not Christian" :)

14 posted on 08/03/2005 2:05:48 PM PDT by A. Pole (" There is no other god but Free Market, and Adam Smith is his prophet ! ")
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To: Always Right; A. Pole
Catholics excluded from the list?"""

Well, by its very nature the list isn't very compatible with Catholicism. Could you name "the most influential" Catholic parishes? The Catholic church isn't set up that way -- parishes don't have the same kind independent personality and emphasis that Protestant congregations often do. Protestantism is, after all, basically a congregational form of christianity; even when the congregations are ostensibly linked in a denomination, they often go their own way. Catholic parishes, in contrast, are cogs in a larger organization, and their pastors don't do an entrepreneurial thing that would distinguish one parish from another in terms of mission, ministry message, the way protestant pastors often do.

23 posted on 08/03/2005 2:34:31 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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