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To: smokingfrog; Arthur McGowan
One man’s opinion...

There are 1.3 billion Catholics on Earth now and UNTOLD billions who have lived over the years that share that opinion...

37 posted on 02/23/2015 7:49:49 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails overall!)
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To: terycarl

Numbers do NOT make right.


42 posted on 02/23/2015 8:03:55 PM PST by sigzero
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To: terycarl

The Church is the body of Christ - those that believe he is the son of God and died for their sins. The Church is not institution set up by mankind.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.


44 posted on 02/23/2015 8:13:17 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: terycarl
One man’s opinion... There are 1.3 billion Catholics on Earth now and UNTOLD billions who have lived over the years that share that opinion...

"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
Matthew 7:13
46 posted on 02/23/2015 8:50:56 PM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: terycarl

Well right now nearly two billion people are Muslims, so “sharing an opinion” is hardly proof of believing the TRUTH!


58 posted on 02/23/2015 11:55:05 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: terycarl
Ya beat me to it!

To compensate; I'll post your FAVORITE stuff!



Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

65 posted on 02/24/2015 3:01:45 AM PST by Elsie
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To: terycarl

Which goes to show the depth of deception that so many people can be under.

It’s no wonder the Catholic church tried so hard to keep the word out of the hands of the unwashed.


80 posted on 02/24/2015 4:48:45 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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