Posted on 04/20/2002 5:56:22 AM PDT by heyheyhey
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Posted on 4/20/02 5:56 AM Pacific by heyheyhey
A few weeks ago I tried, in my feeble way, to express why I fell in love with the Catholic Church. I received many gracious and grateful responses from others who felt the same way, some of them converts like me.
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Posted on 4/20/02 5:56 AM Pacific by heyheyhey
A few weeks ago I tried, in my feeble way, to express why I fell in love with the Catholic Church. I received many gracious and grateful responses from others who felt the same way, some of them converts like me.
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. (Matthew 16:18)The church will not fall. We must perservere and have faith that Jesus spoke the truth. Jesus also said that not all members of his church would go to Heaven. One of His own disciples betrayed Him. Eleven of his disciples rejected Him in His passion. He loves us very much, and He loves His church. We will get through this crisis, and we will be stronger for it.
God bless.
Many investigations have been done on homosexuals and priests, and the highest numbers I have heard from a respected scientist is 5% ... and this is total homosexuals, not the total ACTIVE homosexuals which is estimated at between .02 and 2%.
Yes, there is a problem with some seminaries recruiting effeminate men and keeping out masculine men. But the problems do not for one minute prove that the Catholic faith and beliefs are wrong.
We must solve this problem. It is a real tragedy and something that needs to be fixed, ended, the victims cared for. But the Church is still standing, and will stand. We might not think so today, but the Church has been through many other scandals over the past 2,000 years and survived. We can and will get through this one.
Because the Catholic faith is focused on one thing: God. All prayers, all petitions, all devotions, are finally directed to God through Jesus Christ, His Son. Our faith, our doctrines, our love has not changed, even though some in the Church have failed to uphold the commandments, the morality, or the doctrines.
God bless.
Well said. God bless.
Precisely. Spot on, Howlingly.
After all, it was Rome which changed the Creed in contravention of the decrees of the Ecumenical Councils at the time of the schism. In the last century, the Orthodox Church offered more Holy Martyrs for Christ than the Church did in all the centuries previous, only to rise again from the Bolshevik persecution. The Evil One is obliged to attack the Holy Orthodox Church from without--the Jihad, the Crusades, the Turkish and Bolshevik Yokes. The Latin Church under the Roman Pope seems to sprout evils from within. All of the horrors laid against Christians by modern freethinkers--the Crusades, the Inquisition, the abuses which sparked the "Reformation" (note the scornful quotation marks), the wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries, forcible conversion of American Indians, and now the sex scandals most notably in North America, but also if one is attentive in Austria and (with a heterosexual twist) in Africa--were brewed within the Papal Church.
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