Marjorie Taylor Greene: I Was Raised Catholic, but Wicked Bishops Have ‘Driven Me Away’ from the Church

LifeSite News ^ | 5/4/22 | Claire Chretien

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‘Mrs. Greene's statement about leaving the Church is as enlightening as it is saddening,’ commented Michael Hichborn, president of the Lepanto Institute.

(LifeSiteNews) – Following criticism of comments she made about the U.S. Catholic bishops, conservative firebrand U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed that she was raised Catholic but left the Church “with great sorrow” when she had kids because she had concerns about the left-wing hierarchy protecting abusive priests.

“With great sorrow, and unwavering faith in Jesus Christ, I stopped attending Catholic Mass when I became a mother, because I realized that I could not trust the Church’s leadership to protect my children from pedophiles, and that they harbored monsters even in their own ranks,” the now-evangelical said in a lengthy statement.

The Georgia Republican was responding to the Catholic League’s Bill Donahue, who slammed her for suggesting in an interview with Church Militant’s Michael Voris that “Satan is controlling the Church.”

“The Church is not doing its job. And it’s not adhering to the teachings of Christ,” she added.

“It’s the Church leadership I was referring to when I invoked the Devil,” Greene clarified on Twitter. “Just so we’re clear, bishops, when I said ‘controlled by Satan,’ I wasn’t talking about the Catholic Church. I was talking about you.”

“The Catholic Church must throw out these monsters instead of lecturing the people its own bishops have driven away,” she continued, blasting the U.S. Catholic bishops as “some of the worst in the world” and “scheming bureaucrats in miters.” It was the “bishops’ wickedness” that drove her out of the Church, Greene said, and her own refusal to “submit the spiritual and physical livelihood of my children to these monsters.”

Greene, who is sometimes referred to as “MTG” (à la “AOC”), went on to say what many faithful Catholics who.......

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There just HAS to be a pony in there somewhere!

[Elsie]

you have to play defense if you support the 19th century non-Christian philosophy of the pre-tribulation rapture

Do you REALLY want to go down this path?

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1950 AD

Assumption of the body of the Virgin Mary into heaven shortly after her death. (Pope Pius XII)

 

https://www.romancatholicism.com/dates-of-catholic-doctrines

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I guess you do!!

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Too bad your Catholic translators didn’t write MANY then.

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Are you unable to answer that?

Keep trying.

You may yet get someone to traipse down another rabbit hole with you.

[Elsie]

It is just possible that I am just gonna die.

[Elsie]

Look beyond criticizing others and see the plank in your own eye

Isn't that what mirrors are for?

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Double Down Dude!

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I see your logic applies to other fields.

[Elsie]

...you think that Jesus left us a closed book...

Hey!

I ain't the guy that penned:

Revelation 122:18-19

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when it comes to our final judgement from God, we can all use a little help.

[Elsie]

Nah, only you are calling yourself a B|+¢# - is this self-abuse normal for you?

Nah; just the other kind.

[Elsie]

Sola is a non-biblical position that leads to the number of sola views as below

TRADITION is a biblical position that leads to a number of uniquely Catholic doctrines and beliefs.

[Elsie]

I connected salvation with Catholicism because I had been raised being told that it was only through Catholicism one could be saved, or rather stand a chance at being saved.

I've read something like that; too!

I think it came from the big church in ROME!!

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The following quotations from the Church Fathers give the straight story. They show that the early Church held the same position on this as the contemporary Church does—that is, whereas it is normatively necessary to be a Catholic to be saved (see CCC 846; Vatican II, Lumen Gentium 14), it is possible in some circumstances for people to be saved who have not been fully initiated into the Catholic Church (CCC 847).

Notice that the same Fathers who declare the normative necessity of being Catholic also declare the possibility of salvation for some who are not Catholics.

 

https://www.catholic.com/tract/salvation-outside-the-church

 

 

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Yeah, you would say...

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9:19 AM

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I’ve heard this before.

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I’m glad I have an Advocate!