I support truth and honesty. The Catholic Church has always been the "real" church to most of us, the Protestant churches just small pimples on the hind end of the proverbial elephant. I think Christianity is toast because the Catholic Church has let everyone down. Go here for a disgusting piece about known child molesters who are STILL running loose. Not only that, but men who have been promoted by church leaders to new hideaways.
The files, released Tuesday, show that Auxiliary Bishop Michael P. Driscoll and Msgr. John Urell knew of repeated allegations of sexual misconduct against Orange County priests yet did little to protect parishioners or prevent future abuse.Nice bunch to lead us to morality and good citizenship, huh?
Driscoll is now the bishop of the Diocese of Boise, Idaho. Urell, who was a top diocesan official at the time, is now pastor of St. Norbert Church in Orange.
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In his Thursday column Lileks links to a worldnetdaily new columist Rev. Jim Rutz. The reverend is in the evangelical movement and contends that it is the western churches (including RC)that are failing but the worldwide evangelical churches are growing at 8% each year.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44309
I stopped going to mass some years ago when I realized I's already heared those homilies on NPR. Also realized that I didn't think many of the priests truly believed in the doctrine of the church...that it was just a platform for their liberal political opinions. I don't think many of the church leaders believe that the pedophile priests are all that wrong.
If the evangelicals weren't so much into hugging, I'd probably be sitting in their pews.
On the Jews and Their Lies (1543)
by Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
Translated by Martin H. Bertram
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Similarly among us Christians the papists can no longer pass for the church. For they will not let God be their God, because they refuse to listen to his word, but rather persecute it most terribly, then come along with their empty husks, chaff, and refuse, as they hold mass and practice their ceremonies. And God is supposed to recognize them and look upon them as his true church, ignoring the fact that they do not acknowledge him as the true God, that is, they do not want him to speak to them through his preachers. His word must be accounted heresy, the devil, and every evil. This he will indeed do, as they surely will experience, far worse than did the Jews.
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The Turks follow the same pattern with their worship, as do all fanatics. Jews, Turks, papists, radicals abound everywhere. All of them claim to be the church and God's people in accord with their conceit and boast, regardless of the one true faith and the obedience to God's commandments through which alone people become and remain God's children. Even if they do not all pursue the same course, but one chooses this way, another that way, resulting in a variety of forms, they nonetheless all have the same intent and ultimate goal, namely, by means of their own deeds they want to manage to become God's people. And thus they boast and brag that they are the ones whom God will esteem. They are the foxes of Samson which are tied together tail to tail but whose heads turn away in different directions [cf. Judg. 15:4].
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-- david.advenport.1@netzero.com
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