[GeronL]

Why can't they just start their own churches instead of taking over others'??

[muawiyah]

You're being entirely too sarcastic for anybody here to understand what you said.

St. Thomas was already busy Christianizing India while Joseph of Arimathea was Christianizing Wales in the FIRST CENTURY ~ so they had at least a thousand years to work this out before Rome sought supremacy over all the more ancient Christian congregations in the far East and far West.

I would guess the rationale here is that the Roman Catholics in Tranta see an opportunity to pick off the Christians from St. Thomas mission as they get off the Boeing.

That's what you meant, right?

[livius]

"They," unfortunately, would be heterodox RC clergy.

My bishop (Galeone) just excommunicated a priest here in FL for participating in a heterodox group; maybe they can clone his spine and send it out to other bishops throughout the US.

[B-Chan]

Why can't they just start their own churches instead of taking over others'? Because the Devil always knows the right address. We wouldn't be under this kind of attack if the Caholic Church wasn't the true Church on Earth.

Well, he can bring it on. The battle was over two thousand years ago and Jesus Christ won for all of us.

Christ has cast out the spirits that have possessed this world. What we are seeing now is merely the kicking and screaming of the last few swine as they go over the cliff.