I don't want protestant influences or friends in my life, is this ok?

[guanophore]

Cloisters usually do more good than the laity.

In helping one to avoid contact with non-Catholics?

Only for the few that have a definite calling to the cloistered life. The rest of us are called to go and make disciples of all men.

Well, that won’t work very well if one wishes to avoid everyone who is not already Catholic!

I guess its okay to avoid people. Its much easier to advance in holiness when you when you are alone with God.

I don’t see how! I am just left with the worst sort of human.

I feel like most of this is an excuse to socialize with others in a somewhat vain way.

Surely no vanity is permitted within the cloister! (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)

 

[Dlee]

Ouch! Every Catholic has been all of these?

toxic, elitists, judgmental, anti-gospel, and straight up lazy attitude

I’ve been on both sides. Believe me when I say we Baptists didn’t want to associate with Catholics. It’s easy to criticize what we don’t know.

 

[OsculeturMeOsculo]

The way you switch between sarcasm and seriousness makes it hard to know what you are trying to imply.

 

[redbetta]

Since when did this become a discussion about Catholic schools?

 

[ShowersofRoses]

You know, there are plenty of non-Catholics who also act like this.

 

[margaret42]

Are you afraid that they will hurt your faith?

 

[Mtatum1958]

No different than your experience here in fly over county. It’s the individuals, not the area.

 

[margaret42]

My understanding is that there is no other framework for salvation than what is taught in the Catholic church. People every where are saved this way.

 

[guanophore]

I’ve believed it for years that “there is no salvation outside of the catholic church”.
Why would the moderator say otherwise?

It is a Catholic site, and supports Catholic teaching, which does not exclude others who are not visibly Catholics from salvation.

 

[margaret42]

All people can be saved.

 

[Mtatum1958]

I’ve believed it for years that “there is no salvation outside of the catholic church”.

Not to side the OP. There are many good articles from the early church fathers to current apologists explaining the understanding of this statement. A search of the main catholic.com will show these.

 

[HolySpirit]

I guess evangelism isn’t a priority in your life.

 

[guanophore]

Yes they are heretics.

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“However, one cannot charge with the sin of the separation those who at present are born into these communities [that resulted from such separation] and in them are brought up in the faith of Christ, and the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers. . . . All who have been justified by faith in Baptism are incorporated into Christ; they therefore have a right to be called Christians, and with good reason are accepted as brothers in the Lord by the children of the Catholic Church.”

The Second Vatican Council may have used different language but that is just modernism.

Perhaps you are a sedavacantist?

And unfortunately the modern Church makes with its political correct rhetoric makes it seem it doesn’t matter what church you belong too.

Actually this is the opposite of what the Church teaches.

Bad catechisis as well is to blame.

You certainly seem to be a representative example!

 

[OsculeturMeOsculo]

I think you can say that about a lot of people here.

 

[margaret42]

All people can be saved; God is in Protestants as well.

 

[guanophore]

All people can be saved; God is in Protestants as well.

Indeed, but all who are saved will be saved through his One Body, the Church, whether they know it or not, since everyone in heaven is Catholic!