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Thank you for this information, Church Militant! I am going to print it and use it. How kind and generous of you!!
 
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Unfortunately, there is a hyper-conservative view going around that excludes non-Catholics from being Christians. The only schismatics were…The schismatics. The Reformers. Even they didn’t mean to split the Body into different churches, but it happened.
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Be careful with labeling people. Someone might think you’re a liberal. 😉 Who exactly are these “hyper-conservatives” you talk of? Augustine? Aquinas? Anyone that doesn’t interpret EENS the way you wish it was? The “reformers” were NOT schismatics. They were formal heretics. Whether it was their intention or not to break away is irrelevant. They crossed the line into heresy and they were excommunicated for perverting the Gospel, as they should have been. They were even invited to the 2nd session of the Council of Trent, but they refused because their minds were already made up so it’s not like the Church didn’t try to convince them otherwise.
Some people are born into Protestant Christianity and its all they know. Some people leave the Catholic Church because they are POORLY CATECHISED or have had unsatisfactory experiences at a local parish. The circumstances are endless. Those who are guilty of deliberately causing schism, and forming heresies as conspiracies are at fault. This is NOT a black and white issue.
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You’re right, people that are born into the heresy of Protestantism are not held as responsible as the founders of that heresy. They are considered material heretics. This does not mean that their salvation is not at risk! We must work to convert the world, period. It’s more black and white than you’d like to think.
 
I like it too and I think I’ll work it up and use it. It’s in simple terms that non-Catholics can understand…besides, I wouldn’t be giving out such a tract if I didn’t want them to convert. :rolleyes:
 
I just emailed in to Contender Ministries, who claim Catholicism is a cult. Thanks!
 
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USMC:
Not so JKirk. God’s grace can certainly change the heart of anyone - even your grandfather. Have confidence in God and do your best: that’s what God asks from you. God will reward you efforts and just maybe give your grandfather the grace he needs.

I look forward to hearing the story of the “miraculous conversion” of your grandfather. I will put him on my prayer list as well. But you have to promise to include my mother on yours.

If my mother was a Catholic she should most certainly be a saint. She is extremely good on the natural level. The only problem is that she is too indifferent in her religious thinking, but she is showing signs of coming around very gradually. Keep my mother in your prayers and I will keep your grandfather in mine.

God Bless
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By “do your best,” USMC, the best I can do is 1) try to live my faith in such a way that it “attracts” him, 2) answer his questions honestly (which I do), and 3) pray for him. I have not been able to tell him anything along the lines of “you’re in danger” or “you’re going to hell if you don’t enter the Church.” For one thing, I’ve lived far too long in reverence and respect for him (for example, we, his family, thinks he really shouldn’t be driving, but I can’t bring myself to tell him that). For another, my grandmother, his wife, died firm in the same faith. That would lead to the question “so do you think your grandmother is in hell?”, which I do not (though I certainly know that only God knows). The best I could do (and it would have to be in the face of a direct question) would be to say, “In the end, Jesus will save who He will save,” which I think the Church would affirm. Beyond that, I’m helpless, unless God changes something.

My mother is a different situation altogether. She’s a “seeker,” (“yes, Mother, I do need to go to Mass, the Church teaches that it is a mortal sin to skip Mass for any light reason,” “yes, Mother, I do mean that your Catholic friends who believe in a woman’s right to choose and in physician assisted suicide have departed from the Church and ceased to be Catholic, even though they think they’re Catholic and YOU think they’re Catholic” (my Dutch sister-in-law’s great aunt had herself put down with pancreatic cancer, so the topic came up)," “yes, Mother, I do believe that there is, but one true Church”). She doesn’t like my answers sometimes, but she accepted a rosary from me and a book by Marcus Grodi and she likes to watch EWTN (she watched the other night when the African American Pentecostal minister who converted and brought his congregation with him was on). She bounces around. He’s bedrock. But I still won’t despair of his salvation, since I’m sure, barring something unforeseen, my grandfather will die sorry for his sins and commending his soul to Jesus. That is at least implicit desire. And if his ignorance of the Church (and he is ignorant of Her, of Her truth and Her beauty and Her sweet solace) is truly invincible, then I can only commend him to the Mercy of God, which really is all I can do with my own soul. I do appreciate you prayers, however, for him and for my grandfather and I shall most surely pray for your mother.

This is my last post until Easter Sunday…a good and holy Lent to all.
 
In it’s current form, I’d use it. Already have in fact by sending it to some people I know.
Pax vobiscum,
 
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