[Centurion2000]

I am going to respectfully, but vehemently disagree with the Pope on this one.

I have a Bible, a brain and prayer. NO ONE aside from Jesus Christ himself needs to come between me and God.

[markomalley]

I am going to respectfully, but vehemently disagree with the Pope on this one.

I have a Bible, a brain and prayer. NO ONE aside from Jesus Christ himself needs to come between me and God.

I don't think that this is what the article is saying.

[Cronos]

No one mortal will come between you and God. The article says that WE (not “I”) have the Bible, a collective brain and collective prayer. To come together as a family and understand the vastness of the divinity together is what the article says we need to do — to understand it IN the Church, not to listen to some priest without bothering to understand it on our own. Even the priest is just a mortal and would welcome our joy in learning together.

[marshmallow]

I have a Bible, a brain and prayer. NO ONE aside from Jesus Christ himself needs to come between me and God.

Nobody is trying to come between you and God.

This idea holds water only if you view the Church as an obstacle on the road to heaven, rather than an assistance. The Church exists, not to deprive of us of the truth or to hide it from us, but rather to safeguard it and transmit it untainted to our children.

The Church is not the government which wants to take your money and curtail your freedoms. The Church is a father.......a mother........someone wiser than you who wants to preserve you from danger and guide you along the safe path rather than allow you to wander down blind alleys which unguided and left to our own devices, we often do.

[annalex]

Error of individual interpretation of scripture is what comes between you and God.