Is it okay to go to a christian church and a catholic church?

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Tis_Bearself said:
OK. Post 47 says:
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In fact, the Catholic Church is the only Christian church.
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This is incorrect. It is the only Christian church founded by Christ, and the only Christian church with the fullness of truth. It is NOT “the only Christian church” in the sense of there not being any others.
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What do you mean by “in the sense of there not being any others”? The “others” here sounds like “other christian churches”. Would you please clarify?
 
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What I wrote is clear, and I don’t feel it needs any more explanation. You are also going off topic of the thread.

If you would like to debate this topic, I would suggest you make another thread in Apologetics and perhaps people will discuss it with you there.
 
I’m not going off topic. We are talking about Christian Church (singular or plural) and trying to understand what you meant by “others”.

So. What is it?
 
Sounds good.

I guess that’s where my confusion comes from. I read on here that non-Catholic churches are too open to interpretation and will cause mixed messages and confusion but then I read on here many different interpretations of what this means or what that means - are non-Catholics Christian? some say yes, some say no. Can non-Catholics go to heaven? some say yes, some say no…and so forth, so sometimes it can get a little confusing.
 
Don’t get me started on Catholic sermons/homlies.

I can count on my fingers the number of meaty homilies I have heard in my 20+ years as a Catholic.
 
The Catechism teaches that non-Catholic Christians are indeed Christian. Think it’s safe to say that belief is correct.
 
Catholic homilies are very, very disappointing. Thankfully Catholic doctrine isn’t. Mass is only for Christ, not for learning (in my experience).
 
OK, that was the confusing part. Since there wasn’t supposed to be much (if any) interpretation in Catholicism I was getting confused on how/why we’re getting two very polarized opinions on what is believed/taught. Not the only subject I’ve seen this on here either.
 
I’ve known some pretty fantastic homilists. I’ve known others who were…less so. 😊

The chaplain and another priest at my college Newman center were both great homilists. I would learn things through their homilies that I never learned in 12 years of Catholic school (or perhaps had just forgotten 😝). It really encouraged me to learn all I could about the faith.
 
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Because we’re a missionary parish our priests are all shipped in from overseas. I think their homilies tend to be like they are because of language barriers. 🙂
 
Totally. I think people tend to interpret Catechism wrong and/or are given bad instruction from fringe priests or whatever. The confusion and contradictions come from a TON of places. But it’s all pretty clearly laid out in the Catechism.
 
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it is the only Christian Church.
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mrearly said:
The non-Christians (non-Catholics)
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Wait…wut? I was told up thread that you don’t have to be Catholic to be Christian and that non-Catholics are viewed as brothers and sisters in Christ by the church. Is this not true? This link to the catechism that Tis_Bearself posted up thread disagrees with what you wrote. Is the current Catechism incorrect?
 
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