Jump on in, Dawg, Happy to have you.
I don't know nothin' about no disparity and would be grateful for more details and all.
I was speaking to the disparity between the RCC and the Protestant churches.
When you have what is more of a HUGE extended family, than the dictatorship we are depicted as being, there is always some weird guy somewhere - or even a bunch of weird guys doing stuff that the rest of us question.
Nice to see that it is much the same across the Tiber as it is among us 'great unwashed'... Please be so kind as to give the Protestant denominations the same understanding.
In the 14+ years that I;ve been worsipping in the RCC the vast predominance of the preacing is what I'd call "Evangelical" in the sense that it is more and more often a proclamation of the Love of God in Jesus than a moral exhortation or an urging for folks to "Pay, Pray and Obey."
Praise the Lord! The Good News is what it's all about... Don't get that 'worsipping' though.. is that where the extra sacramental wine goes? :D
Darn Caught again (but at least you didn't see me worguzzling?Only slighly mo' better is that "Well, let's take that argument and apply it to YOUR side ...."
WE end up using a sledgehammer where tweezers and scalpel are called for. And I think that's because we think if we don't Win one for Jesus, the universe will be in peril.
Works righteousness .... Jesus can take care of Himself.
The presence of error and corruption in all out "Ecclesial assemblies" is better responded to with prayer than with, "Nyah nyah."
Who with a working brain, would deny that many committed Protestants or "Whatever I am it sure isn't in communion with the See of Rome"-ants deeply love Jesus and seek to do His will. And I dare say that there are two or three Catholics who have the same affections and intentions.
We each believe we have something precious. We each believe the other to be wrong in some important (if not ultimately important) ways.
Okay, end of insufferably self-righteous piety. LEt me foller along in yo' discussion, (bearing in mind that I'm leaving in a few minutes to create the appearance of industriousness and productivity).