Comments on: Top 10 Misconceptions About The Catholic Church

By: Leo

Leo — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:05:58 +0000

Well isn’t it a bit redundant given that Jesus already told them via the Lord prayer “for give us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”? Furthermore based on the context of the verses, your interpretation is problematic. Why would Christ interject such teaching while speaking of the power of the Church? Why would Christ speak of such redundancy before He ascend to heaven? All these add up does not make any sense.

By: Leo

Leo — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:01:48 +0000

In Scripture, Paul declares that he was made Father of his community by the Gospel. James call those of his community children. The term Father itself was used multiple time, by Christians long before the Bible was ever canonized. It is this kind of literalism and short sighted interpretation that causes the Reformation and myriad of other problems needs not to exist between Protestants and Catholics. Moreover, like someone here has said, what do you call your biological male parent?

By: ssspks

ssspks — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:07:22 +0000

catholics read Hebrews chapter 9 to 12, there is only one priest Jesus. and anyone can directly contact Jesus. He is our heavenly father brother friend etc. He is not a monster to see from far away or need a dead saint or the mother of his human life to communicate with Him.

By: MR

MR — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:46:08 +0000

one word for everybody, RESPECT, that at least maybe one moral value that we can all share

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:37:45 +0000

Basically, the point was that he died the death we deserved by our sin. While he could have just snapped his fingers, he seems to be more into action than that. I don’t know for sure, ask someone on Catholic.com; they’re better at this than I am. To sum up: The point was sacrificial love.

And he doesn’t need the worship. But it’s absolutely vital to a relationship between him and us. To worship a creature, knowing that God is true, is likened in the Bible to cheating on one’s spouse. I suppose it’s about our choosing him.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:31:51 +0000

It’s worship only in the sense of giving honor, which is what the word meant long ago. Immaculate Conception refers to having been concieved without sin, not having been born of a virgin. The Bible never says Infants cannot be Baptized, and the Catholic belief of Baptism is about more than just recieving Jesus into your heart. The power to forgive sins is already mentioned in the Bible, it was nothing new.
Here, read this. If you just skim it, go down to “7 marks of a true church.”

As for the other issue, I’ll have to look into the history. As is the case with Galileo, often people blame us for things that didn’t actually go down the way they think it did.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:56:35 +0000

If there were a “Gay gene”, as you seem to be reffering to, than anyone with a homo*****ual identical twin would also have those inclinations. Therefore, we have to assume that there is no one factor that causes homo*****ual feeling, but there are most likely different genes that make it more likely to happen.

And also, we differentiate between homo*****ual acts and inclinations. For us it’s the difference between sin and temptation. No one was ever guilty for being tempted.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:37:31 +0000

Right. Most of the priest who commited the acts were in fact commiting it towards their own gender, if I recall correctly.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:22:13 +0000

The reason it’s reffered to as worship is that it’s from a time where worship and honour meant the same thing, the reason that royalty would be addressed to as “Your Worship”, and the same way that a judge is refferered to as “Your Honor.”

By: Samurai Skot

Samurai Skot — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:18:34 +0000

I actually went to High School with a Roman Catholic Priest’s daughters and he taught at the school as well. In fact even though it was a Catholic School there was also a Rabbi who taught there and his daughter was ALSO in my class. I know that it sounds as if there’s got to be a joke in there somewhere but it’s true. I can hear the joke now; the daughters of a Priest, a Rabbi and Protestant walk into a bar…