Rome had said, God’s grace is great, for through Christ’s cross and his Church salvation is possible for all who will work and suffer for it; so come to church, and toil!
INDEED.
My 87 year old step-dad was telling me at the birthday lunch yesterday . . . about his childhood in the Southern part of NM.
He said the little town was virtually totally RC. And that the church ran the place with an iron rod.
When someone died, the RCC extracted what money the family had left to pray the soul out of purgatory.
What a CORRUPT RACKET!
“When someone died, the RCC extracted what money the family had left to pray the soul out of purgatory.”
Right. Delusional rantings of an old Catholic hater and you credit them as if they are the Gospel. How very sad.
Can you substantiate this? Or did you just make it up, as I'm inclined to believe?