You may believe in Jesus, as well as you are able to do so with your limited understanding and education. However, you are not Catholic, and you don’t seem to understand what the Catholic Church teaches. It might be more useful to start with your own shortcomings and faults, before you move on to correct the pope.
lavazza, Mary and Joseph were not “stupid” compared to Jesus. The are human, and did not have His omniscience, or omnipotence, so they could not understand everything He said and did, perhaps. However, unlike yourself, they recognized that He was the Son of theMost High, and were honored to be part of His glorious mission on earth. Mary and Joseph were faithful people who dedicated their whole lives to bringing up Our Lord and meeting His earthly needs.
No where. Agreement with the belief in the communion of saints and Marian docrines is required, one may persist in ignorance and inhibit the power of one’s prayers by refusing to make use of their intercession.
Each one has their own gift, surely. Paul would not be able to give birth to the Son of God, so fortunately he was able to effect his calling in other ways. One way was to remind us that Jesus came to fulfill the law, and that obedience to the commandments of God is expected of Christians, including the command to honor your father and mother. Jesus honored His, as He was the perfect fulfillment of the law, as Paul writes.
Never mind paarsurrey, he is not even a Christian, and is preaching some sort of strange Islamic hybrid faith.
I am glad to hear that you do not want to idolize anyone, because even though you are not Catholic, it is not recommended that you violate the first commandment.
Actually, I thought Jesus founded the one faith that was the pillar and ground of truth. Then the RCC went into schism from that (after some innvovative doctrines) and then from the RCC schism came Protestant schisms. As Bishop Kallistos Ware notes a 19th Century Russian Theologians said “The Pope was the first Protestant” and that RCC/Protestant were just two sides of the same coin. Therefore the church founded by Jesus Christ still exists in its fullness and that is the Eastern Orthodox faith. Come home brother!
but that does appear to be the EO perspective as I have read it.Don’t try to derail the thread. This is anti-Catholic garbage you’re spouting which has been explained over and over and has absolutely nothing to do with the topic being discussed here.
No, lavazza, I think it is you that is missing the point. The reason I think you are not Catholic or not educated is because you seem to deny even the most basic elements of the Catholic faith. One of those elements is the incarnation.
If it is a “man made idea” then it is probably yours. I can assure you that the Catholic church does not teach that one has to pray to Mary to get to heaven. I can equally assure you that no Pope has said this. On the other hand, many of the Popes have affirmed the dignity and value of Mary in the the Salvation mystery.
Glad you are not teaching the catechism classes!
Yes! And, because we are aware of how imperfect our love is, it is also one of the main supports for purgatory.
Both of these passages are about the lost, and the persons Jesus is talking about are not going to heaven. So, that makes your previous question irrelevant.
No. This forum is for people who have questions about the Catholic faith, or want to have authentic discussion about Catholic doctrine. We are not very good at putting up with anti-catholic drivel around here.
There are so many errors and tall tales in your posts, it is not clear how much of what you have said is true. However, there is sufficient information in your posts to make it clear that you are not Catholic.
If that is the case, why are you on the forum?
Sorry, lavazza. You can’t have it both ways. Either you believe what the Church teaches, or you don’t. Your statement that you do not makes you a Protestant. You may have been baptized CAtholic, but at some point, you abandoned the faith that was handed on to us by the Apostles.
I should hope not!
No, it is not your questioning that is bad. I never said you were “bad”. I said you are Protestant. Maybe you are a very good Protestant, I don’ t know. It seems to me that you have been very rude here about Catholic beliefs, and I don’t consider your attitude toward Jesus’ mother very Christlike (I believe he honored His mother).
The Church is the body of christ. Christ only has one body. He did not build “churches”, but a Church. He did not create “bodies” but One Body.
Yeah, I know. After 25years of being away from the church and coming back on fire for Christ, I never knew that people dislike Catholics that much. It hurts when you have other people say your not a christian, the pope is wrong on what he said, but their guilty of what they accuse him of. And it was nothing new on what the pope said. I heard the other day “The people in the church aren’t perfect but his church is.”
Correct me if I’m wrong but the Cardinals elect the pope and the Holy Spirt guides them. I know the liberals wanted someone else and not B16. The Libs want the church to change with the times.
While I cannot judge whether or not you are going to Heaven. Surely, I can judge what is right from what is wrong. Each unique situation has a correct path to take in response. This is the value of discernment.