Posted on 07/08/2015 6:24:59 AM PDT by Gamecock
It's not about hate, it's about exposing the truth.
Another absurdity is nuns being a bride of Christ. There is more than one nun, so wouldn’t that be polygamy? No one on earth has the power to declare someone a bride of Christ.
Sorry, but what I read on the religion threads on FR? That’s hate.
The Church is the bride of Christ, the nuns are part of the Church.
I am a practicing Catholic. I attend Mass every week and watch it almost every night on EWTN. I agree with many of your points. So do many other Catholics, I can even add a few of my own:
1) Compulsory clerical celibacy is a Church rule, not a Biblical requirement for service in the priesthood.
2) You are right about Mary. A true saint. But not a perpetual virgin. She was married to Joseph and Jesus had brothers and sisters. This is mentioned in the Bible and I first learned in it a Bible study class taught by a CATHOLIC priest in a CATHOLIC church.
3) You are right about confession. We are taught in the Bible to confess our sins, but no requirement is there which says you must confess them to a priest.
4) An the concept of papal infallibility is a complete crock, a dogma developed in the late 19th century by a rather authoritarian Pope who didn’t want any of his other ideas, doctrines, or dogmas questioned.
I could go on and on. I love my Church and respect its history and traditions. But like all other churches it is a man made institution and is far from perfect. It makes mistakes and commits sins just like everyone else.
**You might be eternally grateful.**
But more than likely not.
Please do not equate this foolish Pope with the Church. Christendom is in deadly peril from without and within. At least we’re not performing Garriage in our churches. I fear that if a final confrontation with I-slam happens our only hope will be Russian Orthodox.
How much of all of this is in that spirit?
Don't you just hate that?
Huh? Explain that last one.
Why not? Does he not occupy the throne of Saint Peter? Unbroken for 2000 years?
If we are not to trust him why are any of his predecessors to be trusted? And who decides? You? One of the other FRoman Catholics?
I’ll elaborate.
Most Catholics voted for Obama overwhelmingly. Catholics, and either their complicit or silent priests, using the issue of “health care” as leverage, were a HUGE voting block that provided the impetus to push him over the finish line. Obama appointed the compromised dykes Kagan and Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, and appointed numerous other radical leftists to other federal courts, many of whom obliterated the definition of marriage for the sodomite agenda. These made the crucial difference between freedom and bondage.
I will continue to condemn the Roman Church for its unforgivable complicity in our cultural rot.
See my post #33.
Have you called out FRoman Catholic when they bash Protestants?
Sure, for the fat lot of good it does - because Christians are so busy cannibalizing themselves, they can’t fight the real enemy.
Yet if I am not mistaken, the late Pope John Paul II when he was Pope directed both clergy and religious not to run for political office.
I will also continue to state that it is the Christian churches in general, not just the RCC in the USA that has allowed for things to slipped. Judgement has come to all the Christian faith community.
I think there are quite a few good lessons in Paul’s story regarding reconciling with believers one has previously persecuted :)
Most Christian denominations (and here I am excluding the dead corpses of the majority of mainstream denominations - who are just pagan clubs) did not vote overwhelmingly for Obama. That’s my point.
Sure, for the fat lot of good it does -
I guess I'll have to take your word on that.
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