Beyond the US, the Top Five countries for beefs with the Pope

Crux ^ | September 15, 2019 | John L. Allen, Jr.

[Salvation]

But a false Pope does not make you a false Catholic. You are still a baptized Catholic.

[Salvation]

Awesome Analysis.

[bgill]

Just had a thought. Wait until the libs realize all those babies were baptized without their consent.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Indeed each and every baby was brought into existence without their consent. That's everybody, all of us.

[bgill]

Ack, the abortion crowd will latch onto that.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I read about some woman on a university philosophy faculty, who argued something like that: that bringing a child into existence and giving birth is an aggression against the child, who is being forced into existence, and into relationships (child of a particular mother and father, brother or sister of particular siblings) without consent.

A consequence, partly, of having a "gender identity" "forced" on them on the basis of their *body*.

This philosopher thinks people are "naked wills," without living as embodied, bodily beings, without possessing a normal, physically-based, relational, nature.

They say there is no "human nature."p> Hard to say on what they base "natural rights."

Oops --- there are no natural rights. Just "The Triumph of the Will." That has a familiar ring, somehow

[caww]

The Body of believers IS the ‘visable’ church regardless of where they gather together.

Jesus said.....”For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”.....matt. 18:20

Every day two or three, or many more, may be assembled in every city or village in the US, in England, in Greenland, in Africa, in Ceylon, in the Sandwich Islands, in Russia, and in Judea in almost every part of the world, and in the midst of them all is Jesus our Saviour. Millions even at the same time, in every quarter of the globe, worship in his name, and experience the truth of the promise that he is present with them. This ‘IS’ the Body of Christ..the Church.

[Mrs. Don-o]

True that. There's nothing to disagree with there!

And structurally, all these people are gathered around their bishops, just as in the NT. There is a living chain of transmission going back to the Eleven ordaining Matthias as the replacement for Judas the traitor; and Paul laying hands on Timothy and Titus.

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[caww]

I can’t agree “all these are gathered around their Bishops”.....there’s plenty who gather in the name of Jesus apart from mainline institutional churches today and without Bishops or the catholic church. Rather they are gathered to worship, pray and learn with the centrality of Christ their focus...

[caww]

I can’t agree “all these are gathered around their Bishops”.....there’s plenty who gather in the name of Jesus apart from mainline institutional churches today and without Bishops or the catholic church. Rather they are gathered to worship, pray and learn with the centrality of Christ their focus...