Have they convinced the Roman Catholics? My understanding is that the Roman Catholics hold that the Mormons are heretics.
Good question. Not among the Catholic hierarchy. Unfortunately, at the grassroots level, my experience has been that:
Some FREEPER Catholics have defended Mormonism on FR...despite the reality that Mormonism teaches that the RC church is a completely apostate church with no authority to do anything.
It's really quite interesting that...
...the Mormon church has spent $million of slamming & defaming the worldwide Christian church for generations! Yet when a few online individuals stand up to this extreme disregard & bad-mouthing & intolerance, they become the targets. The very people who claim to not being able to stand intolerance fail to...
...register concerns with the Mormon church over how it brands worldwide Christianity;
...and then fail to see their own intolerance toward those bold enough to critique the Mormon powers who belittle all other churches other than their own.
We've seen an "interesting" mix of FR posters thru the years:
* It's almost like some FReepers have grown up in homes where seemingly any kind of conflict amongst parents was interpreted as "hostility" [maybe their parents WERE hostile to each other before divorcing; yet no need to project that to the point of impugning others' motives, for which they have no special insight]. Therefore, they seem to "read" ALL critiques as problematic.
* Other FReepers have seemed to have been overly propagandized in our "co-exist" culture, where their educations have hand-fed a daily vision of "can't we all get along?". They seemingly live out the left's version of "tolerance" to the point that they can't even see their own intolerance of those who properly critique counterfeit cults.
of course the mormons are heretics, just like the baptists
Have you ever tried convincing a Catholic of anything?
Good luck to you if you do.
I see they have quite a lot in common with Mormons though.
This is a gross oversimplification, but the Orthodox are pretty much regarded as schismatic but not necessarily heretical members of the Church, Protestants as validly baptized but heretical members of the Church, and Mormons as not even members of the Church.
As far as Catholic sacramental theology is concerned, since Mormon baptism is invalid, its recipients are not really in any better position than pagans, notwithstanding its Christian roots.
If Catholics defend Mormonism it's probably just an accident of both being minorities in a mostly Protestant country. But in the big picture we have much less in common with them than with Protestants. Father de Smet compared them to Muslims, and not favorably:
My understanding is that the Roman Catholics hold that the Mormons are heretics.This is a good website: http://comparing-views.com/index.html