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Do we conclude from this that Mary did or didn’t have other children? Welcome to the forum.

I’m a Jewish monotheist, a retired pastor and a retired adjunct college theology professor. Would anyone on the forum object to me teaching a high school AP course on the Bible to your children and/or to other peoples children?

Shame on their clergy if they have failed to instruct them. I’m anathematized by the Catholic Church (and others) for being a conscientious objector. I believe in a doctrine which is called the wider hope. You’re essentially summarizing it.

That’s consistent with what the Catholic priests, deacons and nuns I’ve spoken with concerning the question over the years have said. I’m not persuaded by the argument. I’m not picking on Catholics. “I’m a Muslim but I don’t believe what Islam requires Muslims to believe.” I wouldn’t be...

I don’t define myself as Catholic: not because I don’t understand what the Catholic Church teaches but because I do understand what the Catholic Church teaches. The issue isn’t understanding. The issue is believing. Try this: “Matthias understands what the Catholic Church teaches but he...

That is my understanding of what Catholicism teaches. No one who understands what Catholicism teaches should have an issue with that. You don’t. I don’t. That leaves asoul. Why are they considered Catholics if they don’t believe what Catholics are required to believe? That’s what I’ve said.

Everything I’ve said I said quoting Catholic sources. The latest example being the article published by the Diocese of Tyler. I stand by what is written in the article. I don’t want to put you to a lot of trouble. A single example (I just used the issue of Catholics being required to believe...

Then you should be able to give an example of something I’ve said that the Catholic Church teaches that the Catholic Church doesn’t teach.

He doesn’t sound well-informed to me. Those whom I’ve spoken with who are have been much more advanced in knowledge than he has exhibited. Whose fault is that?