Seems to me, that considering the doctrine of apostolic succession and the years gone by - that the Roman Catholic Church is both structured and large. Where is the disrespect?
Where is the difficulty in simply calling it the Roman Catholic Church or RCC?
PRAISE GOD FOR SANITY IN READING. THANKS ENORMOUSLY.
I really did search long and hard for a term I could live with but that was accurate and not particularly offensive.
I can’t imagine anyone being at/in St Peter’s as I’ve been . . . and thinking any other word would be MORE fitting.
Now, I suspect some may be TAKING OFFENSE quite eagerly BECAUSE of various uses I’ve made of the term. But that’s a different issue, story. I make creative uses of lots of words. Does that rob them of others’ use? Does that rob them of other, more conventional meanings? What a construction on reality that would be!
The disrespect is in the context in which it has been used on this forum.
In this case, context is the key to the persception of disrespect.