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Francis Beckwiths announced return to the Catholic Church has generated an avalanche of invective and revilement from evangelicals. This is throughout the blogosphere.
2 posted on
05/09/2007 10:03:01 AM PDT by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: NYer
I must be in the wrong blogosphere. I never get any of this stuff. I guess I just don’t care that much who is church-jumping. It’s not like he’s going to win them the pennant now, is it?
To: NYer
4 posted on
05/09/2007 10:14:22 AM PDT by
Frank Sheed
(Dead Ráibéad.... Lifelong Irish Papist!)
To: NYer
It’s really a shame, but perhaps in some way good will come of it.
5 posted on
05/09/2007 10:16:17 AM PDT by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: NYer
It just reveals the truth of things. Most evangelicals would let Lucifer’s black army take all the Catholics away to the camps and not think twice about it.
33 posted on
05/09/2007 3:57:42 PM PDT by
Maeve
(Do you have supplies for an extended emergency? Be prepared! Pray!)
To: NYer
I'm not sure what led Beckwith to return to the Catholic Church - or what led him to leave for that matter.
As for me, while I realize that every church has its issues, there are simply some lines that, when crossed, act as a bucket of cold water in the face and can't be ignored. The Vatican's reponse - or more appropriately, lack of response - to the German Catholics who were fundraising to build mosques for immigrants was such a moment for me.
Currently visiting a LCMS congregation and am satisfied with my decision.
47 posted on
05/09/2007 4:41:13 PM PDT by
Old_Mil
(Duncan Hunter in 2008! A Veteran, A Patriot, A Reagan Republican... http://www.gohunter08.com/)
To: NYer
“The Catholic teaching downplays the seriousness of sin”. What a load of nonsense this is. It is my experience having been to numerous different Protestant, Evangelical and Pentecostal Chruches that the Catholic Church is far more serious about sin and it’s effect on us and those around us! To infer that Catholic baptism and the Catholic’s doctrine of justification somehow allows it’s adherence to think less of sin is stupid at best in fact I find the reverse to be true.
Mel
78 posted on
05/10/2007 2:54:14 AM PDT by
melsec
(A Proud Aussie)
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