11 yr. old Pentecostal friend is inviting my 11 yr old Catholic- Christian to his church

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Thank you. I went into this Catholic forum to get advice from my fellow Catholic- Christians. I never meant for any debates. Its my first time on here, and I was wrong to assume only Catholics were on this forum.
 
Understandable. Some of the Protestants (and LDS and JW) are friendly.
 
Don’t do it. Pentecostal churches have some serious ignorance and animosity towards Catholicism and your kid doesn’t need that.
 
Yeah, your question is the same as mine. I don’t know how this ended up becoming a Catholic vs Protestant debate.
 
I came from a pentecostal background.

My advice for your son is: don’t! Just don’t!

For many reasons i refuse to tell it here.
 
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I have a son has attended for over 5 years an educational Co-op hosted by a Baptist church. The Co-op is about 60% Protestant and 40% Catholic. As a result of this my son has some close Protestant friends. He also has played for over 4 years on a soccer team that is all Jewish except for my another boy and my son. We have taught him the theological differences between the different faiths and he has learned a lot of apologetics. So this is familiar territory. I would be ok with him playing basketball or a rehearsal of the friends band. If the band does just a concert; then at least one parent should accompany; in case of an altar call. The child attending a Protestant service by himself I would not approve of.
 
Thank them for the kind offer, but you should decline both the basketball and the ‘church’ service.

It is always sound advice to avoid the religious services and buildings of non-Christian religions, such as Protestantism, unless you are of mind to convert them like a missionary visits a foreign village.
 
"He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you, rejects me, and he who rejects me, rejects him who sent me (Lk 10:16).”

“If any man preaches any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed” (Gal 1: 9).

“And we charge you, brethren, in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the Tradition which they have received of us” (2 Thess 3:6).

“If any man come to you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house or welcome him” (2 Jo 1:10)”

“To be Christian one must be Roman. One must recognize the oneness of Christ’s Church that is governed by one successor of the Prince of the Apostles who is the Bishop of Rome, Christ’s Vicar on earth” - Pope Pius XII

"“So long as the member was on the body, it lived; separated, it lost its life. Thus the man, so long as he lives on the body of the [Catholic] Church, he is a Christian; separated from her, he becomes a heretic” - Leo XIII

“Whoever leaves her [the Catholic Church] departs from the will and command of Our Lord Jesus Christ; leaving the path of salvation, he enters that of perdition. Whoever is separated from the Church is united to an adulteress” - Leo XIII

“He who abandons the Chair of Peter on which the Church is founded, is falsely persuaded that he is in the Church of Christ” - Pius IX
 
All Catholics are Roman in the sense that even Eastern Catholics belong to the Roman Rite.

If you read the papal quotes above, you would see magisterial teaching against the concept of Protestants being called Christian.
 
That’s what I mean, they all belong to the Roman Church. To be Christian one must be Roman.

Protestants are not.

Moreover, the opinion that teaching develops is called modernism.
 
Non-Catholics according to Pius XII are not Christian.
So you can take my word for it, or do some reading on this.
 
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