[xone]

Btw, #135 has not nothing to do with the #132, but I do enjoy that Bible passage.

#132 was dealing with your posting of Luther's anti-semitism. Are you troubled or at least enlightened by the link I posted? Considering the content of it, perhaps Luther's view re: the Jews is something that Catholics should avoid; glass houses and all.

Those views while historical, avoid the fact that in his last sermon, he prayed for the conversion of the Jews to Christ. None of the 'anti-Jewish' mindset survived into the Book of Concord., whereas the Catholic church continued to issue Bulls concerning Jews for almost 300 yrs after the reformation.

[cloudmountain]

Isn't is AMAZING that the Catholic Church is STILL the largest and oldest institution on earth in human history?
How can they do it with all those terrible things they did and do? A-mazing.

According to several on-line sites, from 2011, there are approximately 6.7 billion people on earth and a full one-third, about 2.2 billion of them are Catholics.

The VATICAN, what does IT know, says that there are approximately 1.18 billion Catholics in the world.

How can SO many folks be so wrong? The largest bump is coming out of Africa.