Spoken like a true heretic!
Return to the Mother Church and all will be forgiven.
(Nothing in the list seemed to address an arrogant hautiness; did it...)
Hey, Elsie.
Arrogant haughtiness is the general condition of man, sadly. It’s a humanity problem. To say it’s just, or even chiefly, a Catholic problem is to be, well, arrogantly haughty.
It is wonderful that Christ forgives us for that if we believe. Some sins we may not even know we need to confess, and the Holy Spirit is very aware and there is an interesting passage in the scripture that says the Holy Spirit makes intercession FOR us... with groanings deeper than words. We just ask God forgive us of our sins... the Holy Spirit takes care of listing them out for us until the point we are clearly aware then the Lord presses us to confess them from our awareness. No self flagellation offering needed. Jesus took the flagellation.
I’ve gotten flak from both Roman Catholic and Protestant sides for my theological assertions. But I’m just following the ministry of Jesus Christ without bias, “believing all things.” I just get it strongly in my soul that BOTH the Roman Catholics AND the Protestants AND the Orthodox have some things right... and that they have some things wrong... and that Jesus is the very firm cornerstone at every earthly separated (but heavenly joined) segment of His church. The Protestant earthly segment of the church did not form out of thin air. It formed out of the witness of the early church, which had Peter as the formal human cornerstone... so I’m not sweating the Peter issue here. If we Protestants had to have a pope... Peter’s our pope.
Anyhow, blessings to everyone. I’ve had one huge ordeal of a life. God did it for an excellent reason.