IknowJvette. It’s always some excuse isn’t it? Truth seeps out from that sewer and it’s attacked as “poorly catechized, not really a Catholic, demented, a heretic, a “self-described devout Catholic”, someone with a grudge against the church...whatever it takes to kill the messenger and hopefully water down the message. Is it just a coincidence that every ex-priest, ex-nun, ex-Catholic Church regular member who comes out of it and tells their stories are ALL saying the same things? How about it is simply “the search for truth” that led them out? And the inability to keep the church secrets secret any longer? No, I’m sure that’s not a possibility. I will tell you this. God knows. And God is not mocked. His truth WILL out.
When a protestant posts a defamatory quote which cannot be authenticated and a Catholic challenges it, that challenge is not an excuse, it is a justifiable defense.
I took the time to try to find the quote and the circumstances about which or around which it might have been said. Finding no other credible or unbiased source for it, I did comment on what I found out about the supposed author of the quote.
If defending a specious lie or clarifying something that on the surface may be confusing is making excuses, then I am guilty as charged.
I fell head first into the yawning trap you set when you posted an unsubstantiated quote by responding as if honest debate or inquiry was your intent. The fact that you did not defend your post or offer a less biased source for it is revealing.
Enjoy the glee you must be feeling from your cheap shot, you got me, smvoice.
And yet that same search for the truth led me to the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church. (From the Protestant side!)