[RnMomof7]

Just read the Catechism. It's long, and it's at a higher-than-average reading level, but I have confidence in you. Go do it. Then come back and talk, since then you'll have some accurate content to discuss (even if you reject it). Right now, I'm boxing with straw men, every time I chat with you.

One more time..the magisterium did not write the catechism ....The pope did not declare it ex cathedra....It is simply the work of men.. cobbled together and subject to change

It is a fallible document subject to change by an infallible statement by the pope or the magisterium

. It's long, and it's at a higher-than-average reading level, but I have confidence in you

..My question to you might be why would Rome need to write a catechism that the average guy could not understand? ...Is it sorta like the days they forbid Bible reading because Catholics were too dumb to understand ??

re: the hypothetical person whom you'd "help out of the Catholic Church, and into a good Bible Church": if he/she says, "how do I know your interpretation of the Scripture about the good thief isn't just your mere opinion, or the opinion of some pastor?", what would you tell him/her?

I would ask how knows what his priest says about it is true??

Have you read the Bible? If not scoot ....:)

[terycarl]

..Is it sorta like the days they forbid Bible reading because Catholics were too dumb to understand ??

Speaking of too dumb to understand...don't you really know the reason that the Catholics restricted reading the Bible for a short period of time?????????Really????