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To: Salvation

The dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

The only way forward is to purge all the communists and punish all the pedophiles that populate the clergy.


3 posted on 09/03/2019 9:32:28 AM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: JPJones

The dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

The only way forward is to purge all the communists and punish all the pedophiles that populate the clergy.


Agreed. I’d love to be able to come back to the church. But those at the helm refuse to admit the root cause of the pedophilia issue, let alone address it, and are moving ever-left in their petitions of the faithful.

Leftist ruin all they touch. Catholic church, boy scouts, NFL, the military, and on and on and on...


13 posted on 09/03/2019 9:49:22 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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Only one recourse exists: invalidate Vatican II.........


16 posted on 09/03/2019 10:16:04 AM PDT by chopperk
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We do not lose heart …. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God (2 Cor 4:1-2).


20 posted on 09/03/2019 10:35:10 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: JPJones

My way forward is going to be joining a Missouri Synod church very soon.

It’s taken a lifetime but I’ve finally at peace with the idea that we are justified by faith alone. And what value does an elaborate hierarchy provide to ordinary Christians?

Terrible thing to have to break with the faith you were raised in, but that’s where I find myself.


26 posted on 09/03/2019 10:50:08 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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The only way forward is to purge all the communists and punish all the pedophiles that populate the clergy.

Being more faithfully Catholic would do that.

28 posted on 09/03/2019 11:48:57 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: JPJones

As a mathematician would say: Necessary, but not sufficient.


31 posted on 09/03/2019 12:37:18 PM PDT by Campion ((marine dad))
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To: JPJones

The dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

The only way forward is to purge all the communists and punish all the pedophiles that populate the clergy.

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Ok. You go start a council, and see how many Bishops you know attend.

Simply saying, “purge all communists and punish all the pedophiles” is like saying, “Get rid of all liberals in America then we can be patriotic citizens.”

Hand-wringing and fist-waving isn’t going to do anything.


39 posted on 09/03/2019 2:37:43 PM PDT by Bayard
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