… Well this is awkward. Here I was endorsing a pro-life organization only to find out they’re staunchly anti-Catholic. Like Jack Chick anti-Catholic, only more cliche. I’m always amazed to learn the reasons some people give to hate the Catholic Church. They are always profoundly stupid. The reasons, not the people. Though if they weren’t, wouldn’t they be Catholic. But I digress.
Yawn.continue at The Crescat
Typical ignorance spouted by someone who knows absolutely nothing about the Church. Idolatry. Mary. Blah blah blah. My favorite is the line “since the RCC does not preach the gospel…”. Stop laughing!
Yeah, I was following the group on Facebook as well. No more, I'm leaving because Satan the supreme head of my church told me to do it.
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The modern interpretation of "ecumenism" sure is working out well!!! (/sarcasm)
Actually Toby has a proper understanding of ecumenism: "You want unity? Then join us."
The Church once proclaimed that, right up to the point where everything went off the rails.
I have more respect for people like Toby that firmly believe their propositions and follow out the consequences without apology, than I do for the wishy-washy "I'm OK, you're OK" crowd that is so prevalent even "in" the Church. The OK/OK crowd must be converted one doctrine at a time by their human faith (bottom up) which is a complete waste of time. Toby could be converted in an instance if he accepted the gift of Faith that the Church is the one true Church of Christ (top down). He'd accept the authority of the Church as a matter of consequence.
Leo XII, borrowing from Aquinas, in one of his encyclicals pointed out that once you reject the authority of one item of doctrine, you lose the supernatural gift of Faith and are reduced to human faith.
Hence my use of the "/sarcasm" tag.
Ecumenism does not exist without accepting that there is ONE, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church built upon the rock of Peter.
HH Pope Pius XI was quite clear on the matter in the Encyclical "Mortalium animos":
"For since they hold it for certain that men destitute of all religious sense are very rarely to be found, they seem to have founded on that belief a hope that the nations, although they differ among themselves in certain religious matters, will without much difficulty come to agree as brethren in professing certain doctrines, which form as it were a common basis of the spiritual life. For which reason conventions, meetings and addresses are frequently arranged by these persons, at which a large number of listeners are present, and at which all without distinction are invited to join in the discussion, both infidels of every kind, and Christians, even those who have unhappily fallen away from Christ or who with obstinacy and pertinacity deny His divine nature and mission. Certainly such attempts can nowise be approved by Catholics, founded as they are on that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule. Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of true religion they reject it, and little by little. turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly follows that one who supports those who hold these theories and attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion."
I didn't misinterpret you Michael inspite of the fact that your misformed tag generated a syntax error:
I just wanted to point out in detail that Toby has it right while Church ecumenists have it wrong.
Ha ha. What a riot. The comment box stripped out the sarcasm tag!! Either it has no sense of humor, or sarcasm is considered bad form on blogs.
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