it may depend on who all
"we" includes.
And, as I noted somewhat tediously in a colorful post above (#5770--a black only, refined, edited version included below in honor of your preferences and our relationship) . . .
essentially . . . the business about the 100's of "unofficial" websites
. . . at some point . . .
unless and until the Vatican forthrightly cenusres them
It appears to me that our impressions are not remotely as off base, as alledged.
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No, you may have posted from websites that purport to be owned by individual Catholics, but I have yet to see one that is actually sanctioned by the Church or even an individual diocese or parish. Get back to me if you can find one of these.
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WHAT A MANIACAL FARCE of mangled, shredded "logic" and shredded organizational, sociological, member FACTS.
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IF the INSTITUTION of The Vatican and associated congregations REALLY was the least bit interested in FACTUALLY, ACTUALLY, TRULY, REALLY, EFFECTIVELY, . . .
Disciplining folks
toward TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, in such matters, THEN almost every bloke on the planet who could read Would constantly see tons of admonishments from THE VATICAN in print, on the web, preached frequently from every Roman Catholic pulpit:
Stern admonishments against such heresies. There would be demands to clearly display disclaimers of such having anything to do with Roman Catholicism/the Vatican. Failure to CLEARLY DIVORCE SUCH HERESIES from all Vatican related association would routinely involve real or threatened legal action.
We'd see a wholesale PROHIBITION AGAINST and lack of evidence of any such behaviors, actions
ON THE PART OF officials and priests of the Vatican and related congregations.
INSTEAD, We see the opposite. We see every kind of ENCOURAGEMENT TOWARD SUCH IDOLATROUS BEHAVIORS--As one might expect to see were such idolatries in fact, A CENTRAL PART of the foundational dogma of the organization.
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN a tiny fractional minority of the Vatican documents.
PRETENDING That the Vatican prohibits, proscribes a list of idolatrous behaviors based on a tiny fraction of the Vatican documents while, IN FACT, most folks on the planet have abundant opportunity to OBSERVE THE OPPOSITE IS OUTRAGEOUSLY BRAZENLY ABSURD TO THE MAX! However, I'm sure, omniscient, Almighty God In Heaven is FOOLED to the max [/sar to the max].
Disciplining folks
What are you suggest "The Vatican" do? Scour the world-wide web, seek out heresy, go find the folks and scold them? Should an inquisitor find EVERY SINGLE website that disagrees with the Catechism and publicly excoriate them?
How would the Church get any good work done, if it concentrated on policing the blogosphere and the web? The Church will always have those who want to remake her in their own image, who want to injure her, doing their best to damage the message of Christ's Redeeming Love for all mankind.
There are 6 billion people on earth. Please. I just don't think the Church is interested in following your dictates. Or anyone else's in the Protestant cohort. Do you know any person who deliberately seeks to find Catholics in order to tell them how wrong they are, IN REAL LIFE? Either Protestant or Catholic?