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HenryPinson13
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My name is Henry Pinson and I am starting to doubt and question if Catholicism is the true religion. I would like some guidance and wisdom about this topic please.
816 "The sole Church of Christ [is that] which our Savior, after his Resurrection, entrusted to Peter’s pastoral care, commissioning him and the other apostles to extend and rule it. . . . This Church, constituted and organized as a society in the present world, subsists in ( subsistit in ) the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him."267
267 Lumen gentium 8 § 2.The Second Vatican Council’s Decree on Ecumenism explains: "For it is through Christ’s Catholic Church alone, which is the universal help toward salvation, that the fullness of the means of salvation can be obtained. It was to the apostolic college alone, of which Peter is the head, that we believe that our Lord entrusted all the blessings of the New Covenant, in order to establish on earth the one Body of Christ into which all those should be fully incorporated who belong in any way to the People of God."268
268 Unitatis Redintegratio 3 § 5.
The teachings of the Catholic religion never change. They are the same today and in 1991 as they were in 1929. But in 1929, there were 9 marriages declared null in the USA, but there were 63,933 annulments in the United States in 1991. If the teaching on marriage annulments has not changed, how do you explain the huge increase in them. Further, you have to get a divorce before the marriage tribunal will hear your case. If you look at the number of divorces in the general US population from 1929 to 1991 you do see an increase, but nothing like going from 9 to 63,933.why do you doubt its the one true religion?
This is true, as evidenced by the posts of atheists on CAF.Atheists are now militant, their hatred easily observed in many cases.
Do not the Catholic Church spokesmen themselves say that the criteria for whether a marriage is valid or not have been changed (since VII) and that this is the reason for the increase in marriage annulments?Obviously there can be many possible reasons other than a change on dogma.