How about war. when is killing justified? That’s just for starters. Every protestant church is its own Pope, like it or not. Just take the temperature of the baptist and methodist churches next door to each other in every town USA. P
As is every Catholic Parish and diocese.
I had inlaws in town, and we went to the local Catholic church on Sunday. The priest there
-Does not believe in the Incarnation (calls it a false teaching)
-Preaches at the local Unitarian church. (If my LCMS pastor did that, he would be bounced out rather quickly).
-Says that he would be happy to marry gays, but none have approached him yet.
2 out of 3 are not what the Catholic Catechism teaches (I will give him a pass on the Unitarians, as I am not sure what he was doing there) The first one means by definition he is NOT a Christian. Yet the local bishop keeps him on the pay roll as an active preacher.
And that is my problem with this. I have read what many of the Catholics here say the Catholic church believes, and go see what the local parishes believe and practice. To be short, they are not the same church. Either there is an undeclared schism or the claim to authority is not working.
Or as someone once said, “Every man has a Pope in his belly”.
Just war is a rather interesting doctrine. One that no one seems to be able to quantify (Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Calvinist, etc). The ones screaming about Just War are often the ones not currently in a war. Once that changes, they seem to forget the prior concerns.
I don’t even see FRoman Catholics agreeing on everything.
I see most of them sitting in judgment on the pope himself about what kind of job he’s doing and whether he’s even a Catholic or not.
No Catholic is in any position to point fingers and chant the *Every man his own pope* meme. They all set themselves up as their own pope when they express their own opinion about where the church is, where it’s going, what kind of job it’s doing, how close to*real* Catholicism it really is, yada, yada, yada.