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Many Catholics disagree with the Church on many things. So what?

Does that make 1.2 billion Catholic denominations then?

For crying out loud, that's the very thing Protestants are condemned for and now it's OK because Catholics do it?

FWIW< there's more than enough evidence in the CCC and the canons from the council of Trent to know that disagreement with Catholic doctrine is NOT tolerated. Much of it results in anathemas.

Hey, dan, this is another one Catholics disagree on. Their ability to disagree with the Church.

They do not have the authority to declare binding beliefs on anyone and must answer for their own dissent when the time comes.

No different than Protestants who think that they answer to God for their own personal choices.

"For crying out loud, that's the very thing Protestants are condemned for and now it's OK because Catholics do it?"

The differences is that those Catholics who disagree with the Church do not get to speak for the Church or to form their own versions of the Church and still be called Catholic.

Peace be with you.

No that means that there are 1.2 billion Catholics who are wrong. And to the extent that they reject Church teaching, they are actually Protestant, though they might call themselves Catholic.

For crying out loud, how often have Protestants maintained that Catholics are not allowed to think for themselves?

There are doctrines, intrinsic to the nature of God, Jesus and the believer that are such the Church holds them to be resolute, absolute truth.

But, in opposition to the specious belief that the Church mandates every action and thought of a Catholic, the truth is that the Church offers her followers, followers of Jesus, a sure norm, a lifeboat in the stormy seas by which they can compare their beliefs and understanding of the Bible and know when they are in union with Christ and when they are not.

It is profoundly sad that without that sure norm, that absolute authority, there are those who read Scripture and believe that the Holy Spirit has guided them to proclaim/believe/accept that Jesus would not be opposed to abortion, euthanasia, eugenics and homosexual “marriage”.

FWIW< there's more than enough evidence in the CCC and the canons from the council of Trent to know that disagreement with Catholic doctrine is NOT tolerated. Much of it results in anathemas

Hey, dan, this is another one Catholics disagree on. Their ability to disagree with the Church

Not only, but here there is even interpretive disagreement on whether Trent’s anathemas stand against Protestantism or entail, besides what parts of Trent, etc. are infallible.