[terycarl]

DUDE: these are all religious orders, they are ALL within the teachings of the Catholic church....they do not teach anything that is outside Catholic teachings. Some of them follow a particularily thin path within the church, none are schismatic nor heretical.

[terycarl]

by the way, any of those groups which you mentioned, who fail to toe the line and follow Catholic teachings (those who might favor female priests for example) anr denied the backing of the church and soon die on the vine.

[Colofornian]

DUDE: these are all religious orders, they are ALL within the teachings of the Catholic church....

DUDE: the Protestant denominations you cite...they are MOSTLY ALL within the teachings of the church as espoused within the Bible...

So...if you are critiquing the diversity of the Protestant church, you're going to have to try again explaining why the diversity of Catholic splinter religious orders is somehow distinct...

[Colofornian]

Some of them follow a particularily thin path within the church, none are schismatic nor heretical.

DUDE: Some of the religious orders were "break-offs" of previous ones...which is in and of itself "schismatic" ... even whenever it was done in a less-than-defiant tone