Posted on 10/28/2011 6:59:29 AM PDT by markomalley
Catholics are so "free" they can leave the Church if they aren't willing to follow the demands of the Church. As long as they remember the first thing they were taught: there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church.
"Relax said the nightman, we are programmed to receive. You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.." Hotel Catholicfornia.
Thanks for the laughs. It really is comical when the illiterati pretend to be Canon Lawyers. As my Grandfather used to say its kinda like watching a raccoon trying to hump a greased doorknob.
Perhaps in your zeal to slander the Church you failed to read anything else in the Canon. FYI - Canon 212 is addressing the liturgy. It is to ensure that the Mass is conducted properly.
Your Grandfather really used to say that? Thanksgiving must have been a HOOT at your house;)
A Protestant believes in no infallible authority; he is an authority unto himself, which authority he does not claim to be infallible, if he is sober and sane. He is after truth; and whatever he finds, and wherever he finds it, he subjects it to his own private judgment. He is free to accept or reject, as he pleases. He is not, cannot be, absolutely certain that what he holds is true; he thinks it is. He may discover to-day that yesterday's truths are not truths at all.
He really was a great old guy. Born in a sod hut in 1881 career soldier; joined up and fought in Cuba in the Spanish American War, was with Pershing in Mexico and in WWI. There is not a day goes by that I don't still miss him.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__PU.HTM
Can. 209 §1. The Christian faithful, even in their own manner of acting, are always obliged to maintain communion with the Church.
§2. With great diligence they are to fulfill the duties which they owe to the universal Church and the particular church to which they belong according to the prescripts of the law.
Can. 210 All the Christian faithful must direct their efforts to lead a holy life and to promote the growth of the Church and its continual sanctification, according to their own condition.
Can. 211 All the Christian faithful have the duty and right to work so that the divine message of salvation more and more reaches all people in every age and in every land.
Can. 212 §1. Conscious of their own responsibility, the Christian faithful are bound to follow with Christian obedience those things which the sacred pastors, inasmuch as they represent Christ, declare as teachers of the faith or establish as rulers of the Church.
Can. 222 §1. The Christian faithful are obliged to assist with the needs of the Church so that the Church has what is necessary for divine worship, for the works of the apostolate and of charity, and for the decent support of ministers.
§2. They are also obliged to promote social justice and, mindful of the precept of the Lord, to assist the poor from their own resources.
If these are onerous to you, Christ’s ministry must really gall.
"One of the things the Catholic Church fears least in this country is Protestantism. She considers it harmless, moribund, in the throes of disintegration. It never has, cannot and never will thrive long where it has to depend on something other than wealth and political power. It has unchurched millions, is still unchurching at a tremendous rate, and will end by unchurching itself."
- Rev. John H. Stapleton, "Explanation of Catholic Morals - A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals"
and will end by unchurching itself."
As is seen here on this thread: "I am the Church."
Christ’s ministry was NOT one of control. Control is a tactic of satan.
I got that quote from catholicfaithdefenders.com as I showed in that post. I’ll make a note that you consider that a dumpster site. I’m including some others in the ping so they know not to use catholicfaithdefenders.com because it’s a dumpster site.
We see the words in these threads which express a hatred of Catholicism accompanied by lies about the Church and Catholics by those who claim a monopoly on the intent of God.
With trembling fingers and spittle flecked lips they produce curses about those they find guilty only of imperfectly loving God by their standards while ignoring the 2/3 of the world mired in atheism and false worship. They cite verses of Scripture like magical incantations to try to change the truth, hide Scripture, and deceive God and man about their sins and motives. Pray for them.
"If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen." 1 John 4:20
You got me. I just learned that catholicfaithdefenders.com is considered a “dumpster site”.
You have to have lawyers to interpret what the RCC teaches?
Some would rather be out of control, but this is not freedom, but slavery.
I think any site the exposes the Catholic Church to what the Catholic Church teaches that is contrary to truly infallible scripture is deemed a “dumpster site”. Even if those sites are Catholic sites that list what is true about the Catholic Church.
Any one ‘in Christ’ is not out of control.
Those in bondage to control tactics are slaves to their master.
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