A reflection on Protestant Papacy

[fbl9]

Maybe we have different understandings of “thinking for oneself.” I think maybe we all have to weigh what the church has taught over time and how we think about that today?

There’s teaching/disiplines and doctrine of these only teachings/disciplines can be weighed doctrines can not be weighed or changed.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

huh??

There’s teaching/disiplines and doctrine of these only teachings/disciplines can be weighed doctrines can not be weighed or changed.

 

[Nicea325]

Is it the failure of the RCC to hold it together? I would ask a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. What excuse do we have for blowing it even bigger? We don’t share the same goals, and what we do is consistent with our goals but not yours. How many thousands of denominations? 30 plus or something like that.

This is the kind of response that makes me a little

Here’s why. There’s a couple of implications here. It’s almost as if you, as a Catholic, have completely given up on the idea that the Reformation was an example of terrible disunity in the West and you need to try and rectify this by bringing the West back under the control of the papacy. From a certain point of view, it’s almost as if the CC tried to do this, failed, and has conceded that it won’t happen.

Instead, the implication I’m getting is that a good deal of the West is always going to be under Protestant control and you’re ok with this at some level, but as long as we’re doing that, you’d be more ok with it if we start having a little more unity.

Kind of like you guys. Because at some point, the Protestant Reformation stopped being an example of disunity for the Catholic Church in the West…and then the CC became perfectly united again, but without undoing the dis-unifying event. (Btw, that does not make sense to me at all). And now, this whole situation in the West isn’t your problem anymore. It’s all ours.

I hear you and understand.However,let us not forget that the Reformation was more than just a ‘disunity’ issue at the time. Did the Catholic Church need reform? Indeed and long over due. The Church like all living organisms needed reform,but unfortunately history does not always paint pretty picture.