Posted on 12/19/2021 4:48:39 AM PST by Cronos
Show your work instead of throwing out unfounded assertions.
Where?
Every comment I make?
Gonna have to provide proof that isn’t vague accusations. Show me specifically where I’m not rightly dividing the word of truth and prove it.
Come on, if you’re going to make that kind of claim, either back it up or repent.
Yes.
I’m sorry for trying to be cute.
You’re wrong about transubstantiation and I mistakenly put you into another group.
I presumed.
I apologize.
Doesn’t matter what pope or other bad bishops do. This is Jesus’ Church and we follow Jesus!
At mass, I don’t care if the priest is a great orator or he stutters, I don’t care if the ministrant priest has flaws (he WILL - he’s human) - for me the critical part is that we have the HIGH PRIEST - Jesus there, present on the altar as High Priest and sacrifice.
Though the thing about the priests is a discipline - and only in the Latin rite of the Church. The Syro-malabar, the Maronites etc. all have married priests.
In the Western world this was after people looked at the holiness of monks and asked for the same
ABSOLUTELY!
I wouldn’t care if Priests were able to marry.
It does NOT change the Catholic Church one way or the other.
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