You can speak all you want, but if you aren’t Catholic you have no sway on the Catholic church.
And why should you?
Do the Protestants listen to the Catholics on doctrine?
For the record I am a Baptist.
So what happens to the Great Commandment of Christ?
“Love one another as I have loved you.”
Just because my name might have the word, Catholic after it or your name might have the word, Baptist after it — does that cancel out Christ’s commandment to love one another?
Don’t we both love God above all things?
Don’t we both try to love our neighbor as ourselves?
I am too a member of the Southern Baptist church. I know I have no input in the Catholic religion, but I do pray the new Pope is a Godly man who stands by conservative doctrine, and serves our Lord Jesus Christ to the very best of his abilities.
Sure, protestants can have all the opinions they want about him. It won’t do any more good than it does us Catholics, though. He’s there for the duration, and we have nothing to say about how he guides the Church.
sure, we all have opinions on a whole bunch of different christian leaders.
from my experience here nobody is very shy offering opinions about christian leaders, in or out of their denomination.
don’t worry, lay catholics don’t have any sway over anything important in their dioceses either. they’re for the most part happy about that.
There are true Christians in the Catholic Church. There may even be some true Christians among the Mennonites. There are some among the Baptists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, and yes even some who claim no roots in any of the religions of men. The Catholic Church is a ‘lightning rod’ because of its size and because of its prominence. The attacks are indeed attacks on Christianity in general. Many leading the attacks on the Catholic Church claim to be Christians. By their fruits….?
The Lord has indicated to us that the systems of men are collapsing…economical, political, religious…it has begun. He has also told us not to fear the coming collapse. He is in charge! To that, we say, Amen!
I wrote the above for another, more private response to a question. It is appropriate to repeat it here. It is irresponsible for Christians, of what ever lineage, not to pray for other Christians. If you aren’t a Christian, I am not speaking to or for you. You have your own problems. If you are a Christian, I care not what your ‘Church’ affiliation is...you are my brother. I will pray for you. I will pray for God’s influence in your life and in the life of ‘your church’...and especially if ‘your church’ just elected a new ‘Papa Francisco’.