Actually, the discussion began with you telling me I should read the book first. I had, as well as several others that help understand the background of Mother Teresa, her namesake etc. monastics, which you then took off on.
You then went off on celibacy, took a while for you to find the scripture on that one. Then Jesus on poverty, you never bothered on that one.
Instead, as predicted by others, your posts quickly jump to “pederast priests.”
I’ve read Mother Teresa and those she read, monastics like her namesake. This is the context we began with. Your understanding of Mother Teresa’s writing. Which, to remind, I said was clueless without knowledge and background...
Anyway, my question remains: what accounts for your lack of knowledge of the contributions of monastics to the development and spread of Christianity? Did you skip this time frame in the history of Christianity?
Have you studied this at all? How about around the time of St. Augustine and his life? Any study or knowledge about monastics and their contribution around this time frame? Anything at all prior to the 15th Century?
lol. Says you. RCs are so fond of patting themselves on the back for their own baseless victories. Just because I don't agree with your incorrect interpretation of a verse is not evidence I don't know that verse.
Again, your repeating a question does not mean I haven't answered it. It means I haven't answered it enough to please you.
Sorry. If I tried to please you, I'd throw away the Scriptures, as Rome has done, and I would follow the doctrines of men who make up the magisterium.
"Not gonna happen. Uh-uh. Nooo way." -- Dana Carvey as Papa Bush.
You appear comfortable in your medieval longing of the monastic life. Thank God, Christ did not teach the benefits of that lonely, empty life. He taught pity and understanding for that life. However, He did teach joy in marriage when a man takes a wife, just as Christ has taken His church as His bride.