Good God!
Yeah, this was really needed at this stage in history ...
With Pope Benedict XVI's blessing, the Vatican released a document Tuesday that said the Catholic Church is the one true church and other Christian bodies shouldn't be called churches.
With religious wars and jihads all over the world, what we need is to set Christians against Christians. Christians who don't accept the elected-by-men pope as Christ's one true representative on Earth, successor to Peter, are not real Christians in this guy's mind.
When a person starts declaring who's a real Christian and who's not, it seems to me he's losing sight of what Christ was trying to tell us all. It's nothing new for a man to lose track of the way, the truth and the light -- just a little unusual in someone who's been declared infallible.
An old Protestant pastor friend of mine once told me God trusted his message with the Catholic church for about 1,600 years, so they must be doing something right. John Paul II struck me a someone deserving of respect. Benedict XVI just undid almost 30 years of John Paul's healing efforts.
With Pope Benedict XVI's blessing, the Vatican released a document Tuesday that said the Catholic Church is the one true church and other Christian bodies shouldn't be called churches.
With religious wars and jihads all over the world, what we need is to set Christians against Christians. Christians who don't accept the elected-by-men pope as Christ's one true representative on Earth, successor to Peter, are not real Christians in this guy's mind.
When a person starts declaring who's a real Christian and who's not, it seems to me he's losing sight of what Christ was trying to tell us all. It's nothing new for a man to lose track of the way, the truth and the light -- just a little unusual in someone who's been declared infallible.
An old Protestant pastor friend of mine once told me God trusted his message with the Catholic church for about 1,600 years, so they must be doing something right. John Paul II struck me a someone deserving of respect. Benedict XVI just undid almost 30 years of John Paul's healing efforts.
Labels: Christianity, Pope Benedict
posted by B.W. Richardson at
9:44 AM
1 Comments:
Good morning,
What the Pope stated is nothing new it was in the document Domunus Iesus signed off by John Paul II. It also was in the Vatican II Documents UNITATIS REDINTEGRATIO, 3 and Lumen gentium, 8.
Basically the Church is saying Ecumenical dialogue is important but not at the price of the Truth.
Here’s a link to the Vatican II Document on Ecumenism which can explain the Church's postion better than I can:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html
Thanks,
Don
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