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To: Alex Murphy
I think Fr. Neuhaus and George Weikel are wonderful.
Dr. Weaver makes the point several times about a 'breach in ecumenical good will between Roman Catholics and Protestants'. He says at one point in the article not one cent has been spent to make any changes in the Catholic Church. Personally, I think the Catholic Church has made the most changes since Vatican II to be more ecumenical. As Fr. McCloskey says in the article ‘The definition of a person who disagrees with what the Catholic Church is teaching is called a Protestant.’ I converted to Catholicism seven years ago and think it is the best thing I have done in my entire life.
7 posted on 08/14/2006 10:50:07 AM PDT by kentuckycatholiceye
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To: kentuckycatholiceye; Gamecock
As Fr. McCloskey says in the article "The definition of a person who disagrees with what the Catholic Church is teaching is called a Protestant."

Fr. McCloskey doesn't know what he's talking about - either that, or he's intentionally misusing the term, ignoring it's historic usage and connotations, redefining it towards some unspoken end.

Case in point: many (if not all) Baptists do not consider themselves Protestants, nor do Restorationists, nor Mormons. Yet Fr. McCloskey is erroneously teaching Catholics that all these groups are Protestants.

9 posted on 08/14/2006 11:04:20 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Colossians 2:6)
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