OK, I'm glad we're getting somewhere. I will take your TOTAL repudiation of the Catechism as simply your own personal opinion. :)
Shakespeare wrote a body of works that everyone and his dog have attempted to understand. Therefore we have many thousands of understandings of his works, all or nearly all of which differ from what the author originally intended to convey. If Shakespeare had left a teaching institution specifically dedicated to teaching what he actually wrote, I submit that that body would be a lot closer than Joe Sixpack or Arnold Artsie coming up with his own understanding based upon whatever whim, mood or substance was in effect at the time.
Irrelevant. Shakespeare would have no power to control what happened after he was gone. While your claim of knowledge of Shakespeare's original intent is unique, I do not see any substantiation. There is no comparison here. You appear to deny that God is an active Being in our lives, yet you claim what you claim with the Eucharist. I observe a disconnect.
If what you are saying is true it leaves the church of Rome on the outside looking in. You never had an ecumenical council that was binding on all member churches that declared the canon. Scripture was written by Apostles, or those that were closely associated with the Apostles.
During the Apostolic Era in which these people lived they called themselves Christians. The Roman hierarchy that came to dominate Christianity until the Reformation only emerged later.
***I will take your TOTAL repudiation of the Catechism as simply your own personal opinion. :)***
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***You appear to deny that God is an active Being in our lives, yet you claim what you claim with the Eucharist. I observe a disconnect.***
Time to clean the glasses or possibly get a new prescription. Man has free will, or else God is the author of all evil.