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Good point. It boils down to authority. True authority is always given, not taken. And Christ clearly gave His authority to govern and sanctify to Peter and his successors, the Popes, and in a general way to the Apostles and their successors. Jesus didn't give authority to anyoe to found a...

No one gave anyone the authority to found another Church apart from the one Christ founded and with which He identifies as one. Either we are obedient to Christ or we want to be our own Pope, appointed by ourselves. Recall in Gen. 3:5, when the serpent (Satan) told Eve, "God knows well that...

Well, if you're not in commuinion with the Catholic Church, you are, by definition, excommunicado, i.e., not in communion with the Catholic Church. I would keep in mind that when Saul (St. Paul by his Hebrew name) was going around persecuting Christians, Jesus knocked him off his horse and...

I am not judging your soul. That's God's job. We are to be fruit inspectors, however, discerning right from wrong, good from evil. We are to admonish our brothers and sisters who stray from the truth given us by Christ, for their own sake. Love is willing the good of the other, as other...

The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ. The name "Catholic" was given this same Church very early on. St. Ignatius of Antioch, the bishop of Antioch taught by St. John, the Apostle, and ordained by St. Peter, was captured by the Romans. While they were transporting him to be martyred...

You sound like Judas Iscariot when the woman poured the expensive oil on Jesus and Judas Iscariot complained (John 12:4-5) Then Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said, “Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages* and given to the poor?” The...

But the Catholic Church is the only Church with the fullness of Christ's truths. Other religions and denominations have various degrees of Christ's truth, i.e., those truths that agree with Catholic doctrine. However, wherever they vary, they are in error. Error is a serious thing. See Gal...

Marxists will stop at absolutely nothing to gain and maintain power. This is played over, and over, and over again. Yet, the majority never seem to notice until it's too late.

You're almost there. You're lacking a little documented history, however... St. Ignatius of Antioch, the bishop of Antioch ordained by St. Peter, was captured by the Romans. While they were transporting him to be martyred for the faith, he wrote a letter to the Smyrnaeans around 107-110 A.D...

Well, Democrats are a lot of things, but far right isn't one of them. Democrats are liberal, at best, and Marxist at worse. Currently, I think they're leaning towards the latter. That aside, the Truth admits to neither left nor right. It just "is." Either we are in the truth, or we are...

Seems like you are just following someone else's personal interpretation of Scripture, upon which all Protestantism is based upon, and that Scripture condemnts in 2 Peter 1:20-21. That aside, "belief" is not mere intellectual assent. That has been condemned. Even Satan believes in Christ from...

Interestingly, I don't think allowing priests to get married would change anything. The Orthodox allow married priests and they are having the same problem with vocations, from what I've heard. I think it's more of a spiritual problem. I've noticed that those dioceses that are more faithful...

Hey, God's Grace... Just a slight aside. The celibate priesthood is not a doctrine. It is a discipline. It could change at any time the Church decided, although I think it's far better they remain celibate and totally commited to their vocation as priests. And, as St. Paul said in 1 Cor...

Well put.

I sometimes wonder if the bitterness is caused by knowing, inside, that they made a mistake? And now, they have to rationalize their actions. The most anti-Catholics I've found are Catholics who have abandoned their faith. And almost without exception, they were ignorant of what the Catholic...

God loves everyone. But not everyone accepts His love.

Have you noticed a general trend (of course there are exceptions to the rule), that Protestants who convert to Catholicism are usually grateful and happy, and do so through deeper intellectual study, etc.? And Catholics who leave the faith to become Protestant or atheists are usually bitter...

Matt. 16:19 "I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Jesus to Peter) Luke 10:16 "Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever...

Hmmmm. Without oral tradition, you don't have a New Testament. The New Testament wasn't written while Jesus walked the earth, but some time after. (Not immediately.) All teaching as done orally. Some of what was taught was eventually written down, and some of what was written down was...

Well, think about the perspective of the early Christians for a moment. They weren't like us who have literacy in our blood. Everything we do today is recorded somehow, either by video, in writing, or some other method. Back then, the vast majority of people could neither read nor write. And...