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To: smvoice
"What is happening here,"

What is happening here is that the anti-Catholic control freaks are insisting that Catholics abandon our lexicon and adopt their secular interpretations and word usage in the communication of our faith. It drives them nuts that we do not allow them to define our dogma, doctrines and language nor alter our standards to accept their heresies into full communication with the Church. They are like wet dogs scratching at the back door howling to be let in and given free reign to mark the place with the muddy prints and manners of the Reformation.

2,042 posted on 09/08/2011 2:32:04 PM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Natural Law
Your dogma cannot be interpreted, as is proven from RC to RC. Everyone has a different interpretation of what they think your Church teaches. And they are the MEMBERS!

Here is a good example.

Christ's presence in the Eucharist. A person can say He is truly, really, wholly, and continuously present. But you can't say He is physically present. That would be incorrect to a RC. Because to say that Christ is "physically" present would be to imply that He is "locally" present, which He is not.- "A Manual of Dogmatic Theology {New York: Desclee Company, 1959}, vol. II, p. 262.

That is why the Churxch says He is "substantially" present. That is why though Christ is present, He doesn't appear to be present. He is there in a unique way. So unique, says the Church, that there is no parallel in nature. This, of course, makes it difficult (or impossible) for anyone to understand the Eucharist. Or more importantly, TO CRITICIZE IT. _ The Gospel According to Rome. James G. McCarthy.

And that doesn't even scratch the surface. There is the "unbloody sacrifice" of the Mass, where the wine is wholly and completely turned into THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. The unbloody sacrifice? That's the most ridiculous double-speak that has ever been foisted on a pawn. And yet millions, no sorry, BILLIONS swallow it.

There is so much more, as I'm certain you may know. Abandon your lexicon? Bwhahahaha! We should be so lucky that you would have a lexicon with words that actually mean what they say. Of course you can't be wrong when you're on both sides of the issues and words, now can you?

2,048 posted on 09/08/2011 2:49:21 PM PDT by smvoice (The Cross was NOT God's Plan B.)
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