Persecutions from Protestants?

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ajpirc said:
I don’t think that different denominations are just different branches of the ONE, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. If the Church is one, then why has she been divided 30,000 times?
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The analogy might not be perfect, but the United States is one nation but is divided into 50 states, not all of which are in agreement on all things.
 
gcnuss said:
The analogy might not be perfect, but the United States is one nation but is divided into 50 states, not all of which are in agreement on all things.
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Of course they don’t but they are all in communion with one another through Congress which represents all the states and all the people as a a one single united nation. The states might represent the Catholic dioceses whose bishops might not always agree with one another but they are all in communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, and is the symbol of the one, single, united Catholic Church. Saying that the divisions of people from Protestantism are members of the One True Church would be like saying Germany or Brazil or India are one of the fifty states and represented by (in communion with) Congress.
 
Stepson said:
I have a serious question about Catholic teachings when it comes to the Holy Father. The more I study the book of Concordia, Martin Luther and Phillip Melanchthon, the more I see how the Lutheran Church (not ELCA) and the Catholic Church have more in common then they do not have in common.

I am tired of the way secular society keeps creeping it’s way into the Church and changing it so the Church can be more “relevant” to society regardless of what the Gospel says. This can be seen clearly with the ELCA and now the Presbyterian ordaining non-celibate homosexuals.

I must admit, I am drawn closer to the CC because of it’s commitment to it’s belief. However, I cannot get my head around papal infallibility. I am having a hard time understanding how a person born of man cannot error when interpreting scripture. Is this a correct understanding? Or have I’ve misunderstood it?
I have an especially hard time understanding since this in a relatively new teaching in the Church’s long history.

I would very much like to understand this.

Dan
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Stepson, there are a lot of threads on papal infalibility. There are other issues that are almost always brought up with this is discussed there is a thread going right now that you might be interested in: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=560705. It is called Are we really that ignorant. Don’t let the name scare you away. There is another one, I will find it for you. It is enlightening.
 
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