Catholics Should Care...

[CindiAnna]

Not sure I’m posting in the right place, but I’d like opinions on this article please:

catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=34311

Personally, I believe Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us to “care for each other” & He never designated any “denomination” to be exclusive… In fact, it was not Our Lord who “created” denominations, but rather we, the commoners.

Anyone care to offer their opinions and/or insight on this?

 

[Roman_Catholic_1]

We should care enough to pray and strive for unity. I don’t like the separation of Christ’s Church and I pray for its unification daily.

God bless you

 

[jpaul1953]

Not sure I’m posting in the right place, but I’d like opinions on this article please:

catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=34311

Personally, I believe Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us to “care for each other” & He never designated any “denomination” to be exclusive… In fact, it was not Our Lord who “created” denominations, but rather we, the commoners.

Anyone care to offer their opinions and/or insight on this?

*CindiAnna,

We are not a denomination. We are the Church. Many make the claim, but none can trace their non-Catholic denomination back to Jesus. The Church can and does. Please read Matthew 16: 15-20, (I believe they are the verses - it’s when Jesus changes Simon’s name to Peter and passes the torch to Peter to grow Jesus’ Church.

Take care and may God bles you.

jpaul1953*

 

[simple_soul]

Dear CindiAnna,

Thank you for sharing this article.
I thought it was a good read and made some good points.
I really liked the part that called other Christians our brothers and sisters. I believe it sounds so much more humble, charitable and compassionate than “seperated brethren” and I thought the reasons that were made for looking at other christians this way were valid.

If I may, I would sudgest reading this that I found at the Holy See web site. Actually you may have already read it but just in case you did not…
vatican.va/jubilee_2000/magazine/documents/ju_mag_01021998_p-40_en.html

With my prayers

 

[Alvarillo]

Dear CindiAnna,

Thank you for sharing this article.
I thought it was a good read and made some good points.
I really liked the part that called other Christians our brothers and sisters. I believe it sounds so much more humble, charitable and compassionate than “seperated brethren” and I thought the reasons that were made for looking at other christians this way were valid.

If I may, I would sudgest reading this that I found at the Holy See web site. Actually you may have already read it but just in case you did not…
vatican.va/jubilee_2000/magazine/documents/ju_mag_01021998_p-40_en.html

With my prayers

I find “seperated brethren” to be quite charitable and compassionate. What greater compassion than feeling sorrow for you’r brother’s lack of communion with Christ’s Church? What greater charity than the implied hope for a future unity?

 

[AngloCatholic1]

CindiAnna,

That’s a wonderful article. I left the Anglican church years ago when the communion began to fall apart over basic moral teachings. I drifted through a variety of protestant churches, but found that each of them was missing something. They each seemed to focus on one important aspect of Christian life and worship, but at the expense of ignoring all the rest.

Now, as a confirmed Roman Catholic, I can see the other churches for what they are… each is a PARTIAL picture of Christian truth. When we see other Christian churches breaking apart and subdividing over and over again, we have to realize that this is the result of ever narrower and narrower understandings of what it means to be a member of Christ’s church. It’s a process of disintegration that had its roots in the beginning of the Reformation. Even the original reformers - such as Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and Knox - could not agree with each other on some basic teachings. So much for “Sola Scriptura”!

In contrast, Catholicism represents Christianity in all its FULLNESS and richness - in doctrines, traditions and ceremonial worship. We must pray for our brothers and sisters who have become trapped in these isolated islands of partial witness to the truth… pray that they realize that the cure to all this schism is to carefully reconsider the traditional teachings of Holy Mother Church. And all of us, Catholics and non-catholics alike, must give serious attention to what our Lord prayed in John 17:21

"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."

For we CANNOT be a true witness to the world as long as we remain at odds with each other.