Group develops an identity outside Catholic Church

[JKirkLVNV]

bones_IV:

I don’t agree. Burke was just doing his job, let him go. Burke excommunicates a parish and people automatically they call him an inquisitor. I’m sorry you don’t except the word of God word for word.

The poster wasn’t talking about Archbishop Burke. He was talking about the Burke in the article, who’s only excommunicated himself.

 

[tee_eff_em]

Elzee:

I really wish the Pope could patent and control the use of the word ‘Catholic’ when it comes to official names, titles, etc.

I don’t know that it is enforceable (nor ever enforced, but I kind of think it is part of the CA heresy charge recently in the news):

Can. 216 Since they share the Church’s mission, all Christ’s faithful have the right to promote and support apostolic action, by their own initiative, undertaken according to their state and condition. No initiative, however, can lay claim to the title ‘catholic’ without the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority.

tee

 

[Libero]

good riddance! The less cafeteria Catholics we have the better. At least with a name like “American Catholic Church” you can smell them a mile away.

If you took away all those who dislike or disagree with the church on only one issue or more, you would find yourself with a very small church indeed, particularly in Europe and the US.

 

[felra]

Libero:

If you took away all those who dislike or disagree with the church on only one issue or more, you would find yourself with a very small church indeed, particularly in Europe and the US.

The Church is not, at least should not be, about numbers. There will always be the Church visible and the Church invisible, as in the Mystical Body of Christ.

Mystical Body of the Church

The analogy borne by any society of men to an organism is sufficiently manifest. In every society the constituent individuals are united, as are also the members of a body, to effect a common end; while the parts they severally play correspond to the functions of the bodily organs. They form a moral unity. This, of course, is true of the Church, but the Church has also a unity of a higher order; it is not merely a moral but a mystical body. This truth, that the Church is the mystical body of Christ, all its members being guided and directed by Christ the head, is set forth by St. Paul in various passages, more especially in Ephesians 4:4-13 (cf. John 15:5-8).

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10663a.htm

 

[Dandelion_Wine]

Libero:

If you took away all those who dislike or disagree with the church on only one issue or more, you would find yourself with a very small church indeed, particularly in Europe and the US.

This is a group who picked a new name to make a DISTINCTION between Rome and them. That’s hardly one issue.

I have YET to meet a cafeteria catholic who disagrees with the church on one issue.

Give me a small Church where people who receive Holy Communion are in communion with that church.

I might as well call myself a hindu for the amount of stuff that SOME cafeteria catholics believe/disbelieve and still call themselve catholic.

 

[Ahimsa]

Dandelion_Wine:

I might as well call myself a hindu for the amount of stuff that SOME cafeteria catholics believe/disbelieve and still call themselve catholic.

Well, since “Hindu” originally only referred to those people who live across the (H)indus river, it is indeed possible to be a “Hindu” Catholic.

 

[Libero]

The Church is not, at least should not be, about numbers. There will always be the Church visible and the Church invisible, as in the Mystical Body of Christ.

Hey felra, you are back!! Whilst the church should not be about numbers, it inevitabley is

 

[felra]

Libero:

Hey felra, you are back!! Whilst the church should not be about numbers, it inevitabley is

Perhaps in some corners. But, the only numbers that matter are those of souls on the road to salvation (my point being).