With some exceptions, the Catholic church does not kick out sinners. Yes, some priests are removed from ministry.
The Catholic Church is clear on its teachings. Yes some stray and they are not always corrected. They should be. Again sinners and their actions do not represent the teachings of the Church, even if they are priests.
The Church is full of saints and sinners and in spite of all it’s human weaknesses the Catholic Church is Holy. It is a long journey to Heaven and we need to help all understand the Truth. You are always welcome to come back to the Mass and the Sacraments.
The problem though is it seems that Rome isn't kicking anyone out in leadership.
If the leadership is in error the rest will be in error.
The Church is full of saints and sinners and in spite of all it’s human weaknesses the Catholic Church is Holy. It is a long journey to Heaven and we need to help all understand the Truth. You are always welcome to come back to the Mass and the Sacraments.
The Roman Catholic Church is not Holy. God is Holy, but not a denomination.
When a person is in error/sin in an Evangelical church we invite the person to return to Jesus.
The Catholic church is not living holy nor does it represent holiness when it hosts cocaine fueled homosexual orgies.
You can appeal all you want to the hypothetical and theoretical, but the reality of the situation is that it’s wrong and in no way holy, and in no way indicative of Christ protecting the church.
And the *Church is full of sinners, too.* meme is just excuse making.
Yes, there are people who sin who adhere to any congregation, but when the leadership not only refuses to apply church discipline, but rather engages in the most heinous sin itself and then covers up for it, there’s no way that it has the right to bear the name of Christ.
The letters to the seven churches in Revelation show how serious Christ is about the churches being kept pure.
Church leadership is expected to apply church discipline. That’s one of their jobs.
And the total irony is Catholics then rag on others about cheap grace and feeling like we san sin with impunity and live as we please and still make it to heaven, and yet in practice, that’s EXACTLY what Roman Catholicism advocates.
The "Church", however, is NOT the Roman Catholic church but the universal one, sanctified body of Jesus Christ, His Bride - where all genuine believers in Christ are like living stones, being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Any time you try to assert that "your" denomination is "THE" church outside of which NO ONE can be saved, you are practicing elitist, erroneous, religious snobbery that has no support from God. His holy word tells us this. The journey to heaven is through faith in Jesus Christ - who died for our sins and was raised for our justification.