[small voice in the wilderness]

I am not applying anything. It's YOUR teachings of the Catholic Church that states she alone hold the keys of the kingdom and has the power to retain or remit sins. It's the Gospel of the Kingdom that YOUR Church believes and teaches.

Are you denying this? Because I don't understand your point if you are confused on which Gospel your Church believes.

[r9etb]

It's the Gospel of the Kingdom that YOUR Church believes and teaches. Are you denying this? Because I don't understand your point if you are confused on which Gospel your Church believes.

Let me answer this way: I'm not a Catholic.

A bit of initial humility on your part might have spared you the humiliation of such a loudly proclaimed bit of presumptuousness.

And as to your assertions about what the Catholic Church teaches.... I'm pretty sure you're wrong about that, too.

[Mad Dawg]

Have you read "Dominus Iesus?" I don't suggest it with the expectation that you would be persuaded, but it might be useful in understanding the details of our claim to be 'the Church'.

On another thread I put up a little passage from St. Augustine which might also help nuance the understanding of the claim.