“...Fellow Catholics: don’t let your hearts be troubled...”
Thanks for the encouragement. All this hate for Catholics right as they are being beheaded by Muslims is truly troubling and the work of Satan to stir up discord and hatred in people’s hearts.
The attack now, right before lent seems to have a diabolical timing.
The Coptic Christians being beheaded, although not considered in union with the Pope, are Catholic and profess all of the beliefs that are being derided by the hostile and bigoted group here on FR who distort history; the Coptics hold the same belief in the sacraments, the special Love and veneration for the Blessed Mother, etc. as the beliefs being attacked.
The Coptic Church history actually adds more proof to the Catholic position (bishops, tradition, sacraments, veneration of the Blessed Mother), since the Coptics have been there since the beginning and their use of the sacraments and love of Mary has continued in an unbroken manner since St. Mark evangelized them around A.D. 50 or thereabouts.
This makes these spurious claims from catholic haters especially inappropriate and extra vicious. I am surprised the forum allows this. I think they don’t allow jack Chick and this appears to be the same type of ugly spin.
You mean true because Rome has presumed to infallibly declare she is and will be perpetually infallible whenever she speaks in accordance with her infallibly defined (scope and subject-based) formula, which renders her declaration that she is infallible, to be infallible, as well as all else she accordingly declares.
It was the charge of the Reformers that the Catholic doctrines were not primitive, and their pretension was to revert to antiquity. But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity....Primitive and modern are predicates, not of truth, but of ourselves...The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour. . — Most Rev. Dr. Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Lord Archbishop of Westminster, The Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost: Or Reason and Revelation (New York: J.P. Kenedy & Sons, originally written 1865, reprinted with no date), pp. 227-228.
...in all cases the immediate motive in the mind of a Catholic for his reception of them is, not that they are proved to him by Reason or by History, but because Revelation has declared them by means of that high ecclesiastical Magisterium which is their legitimate exponent.” — John Henry Newman, “A Letter Addressed to the Duke of Norfolk on Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulation.” 8. The Vatican Council lhttp://www.newmanreader.org/works/anglicans/volume2/gladstone/section8.html
And which has use of forgeries , while even Catholic and other scholars testify against the propaganda of RC "true history. "
What does that mean ??
Eh, for the most part I ignore them. To me they are like gnats.