Posted on 06/25/2013 2:24:03 PM PDT by NYer
Catholics know that as members of a parish, they have been committed to a priest’s spiritual care, thus they have great filial affection for priests and call them "father." Priests, in turn, follow the apostles’ biblical example by referring to members of their flock as "my son" or "my child" (cf. Gal. 4:19; 1 Tim. 1:18; 2 Tim. 2:1; Philem. 10; 1 Pet. 5:13; 1 John 2:1; 3 John 4).All of these passages were written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and they express the infallibly recorded truth that Christ’s ministers do have a role as spiritual fathers. Jesus is not against acknowledging that. It is he who gave these men their role as spiritual fathers, and it is his Holy Spirit who recorded this role for us in the pages of Scripture. To acknowledge spiritual fatherhood is to acknowledge the truth, and no amount of anti-Catholic grumbling will change that fact.
Carter was president. Why didn’t he crack down on such an evil cult when he had the chance?
Carter was president. Why didn’t he crack down on such an evil cult when he had the chance?
Well the answer is simple, stay the F*C* out out other peoples religion if you don’t like it. Isn’t that SUPPOSED to be one of the founding principles of our country, freedom of religion? Why , oh why, couldn’t the Founding Fathers have put a Freedom From Clymers clause in the Constitution! It would have saved us from people like Carter, Gore, Pelosi, Reid and so many,many others!
MYOB Jimmy.
Sez in peanuts biography that james earl carter be a baptist.
So yimmy. Deal with your own faith And let the RCs deal with theirs
Do the Baptists even want him?
He was particularly incensed over the SBC's refusal to ordain women, and it's insistence that homosexual behaviour is unacceptable.
La plus ca change ...
I can’t wait not to watch this dork’s funeral.
The second worst President of the United States, the self-proclaimed Southern Baptist, the known anti-Semite and anti-Catholic now has the audacity to tell the Catholic Church that the Church should allow the ordination of women. Next, he will be telling Jews to move their Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.
Ahh, I thought so. So he’s kind sorta ‘Baptist lite’.
He should stop sullying their good name. I hear the episcopalians are hiring. He could be bishop Jimmuh.
What about Friday! I’m sure he has plenty to say. ;)
See #9 he is not a Southern Baptist anymore because we, as our Catholic Brothers/Sister, do not ordain women.
Uh, the Scriptures beg to differ. It was the Prophet John.
Read carefully. It says that no greater *man* was born of woman than John. The BVM is not a man.
She's not a "god" either.
Seriously, "man" is used in the generic sense for all of humankind in the verse about John being the greatest. Just as the Lord said, "no man can come to the Father except by me" didn't exclude women.
???
Did you intend to write: Plus ca change, plus c'est la mem chose?
Thank you for the informative post.
He renounced the Southern Baptist denomination and left it.
""In October 2000, Carter again made headlines with his widely-publicized decision to leave the Southern Baptist Convention. Carter sent out over 75,000 letters to Southern Baptist churches nationwide explaining his decision.""
In April 2006, Carter, former-President Bill Clinton and Mercer University President Bill Underwood formed the New Baptist Covenant.
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