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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
"We are not all marching mindlessly in lockstep with every whim that comes from the Vatican."

This is one of the most interesting posts I have come across from a Catholic. You are, of course, aware that nearly everything you have just said is contrary to Rome's demands? It has been clear from their get-go (300AD) that they hold the "keys to the kingdom" and only their versions of doctrines are correct. You are dangerously (or shall I say "safely" close) to being a reformer. Keep reading, my FRiend, because that Bible will lead you to the truth...God willing (that is in the Bible to which you refer).

22 posted on 04/07/2015 12:19:51 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: Dutchboy88

Look no further than the Argentine Socialist who now occupies the throne of St. Peter. Most of what he says goes in one ear and out the other as far as I am concerned. I truly wish we would avoid topics such as politics and economics. Not looking forward to his upcoming encyclical on global warming which I am certain will be pile of crap.

Now...one the other hand...the current Pope has said some things about compulsory clerical celibacy which I do strongly agree with. Pope Francis has stated:

1) The policy is considered a discipline, not a dogma or a doctrine of the Church. True.

2) The policy is always subject to change. True.

3) The policy was enacted many centuries after the founding of the Church. True.

Funny, though, when I say exactly the same things I am branded a heretic or worse -—a Protestant! Horrors! by some in my Church.


26 posted on 04/07/2015 12:28:54 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Dutchboy88
or shall I say "safely" close) to being a reformer.

Revolutionary...."reformers" reform from within...revolutionaries set up their own erroneous concepts of what they consider the truth.....nonsense.

84 posted on 04/07/2015 3:15:51 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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