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You can disagree with Catholic non-essentials and remain Catholic - but you cannot be a Catholic and disagree with doctrinal or dogmatic positions. As for making assumptions about you and your disagreements with the Church - I'm just going fro your posts on several threads.

Ananias and Sapphira were used as a Scriptural example. Otherwise ALL of us would drop dead from not sharing everything we own with the Church.

Ummm, I explained to Stranger that his use of "Roman" was incorrect - whereas, the use of it in the documents he presented WAS correct. As for your posting of the Pope's comments - they didn't pertain to me because I don't see myself as being infallible. I don't have that charism. I simply...

While you're doing that - pray for guidance. You shouldn't belong to a Church if you disagree with it . . .

Yup - those are called dissident Catholics - or Protestants. If you disagree with the teachings of your Church - why do you belong to it?? I would never be a member of a church if I disagreed with it. Why are YOU??

I would LOVE it if you and the rest of your anti-Catholic friends searched the Catechism before posting. The sad fact is that NONE of you do - or you wouldn't post the lies that you do . . .

Context ALWAYS matters. This is why YOU, who claims to be Catholic, don't understand the teachings of the Church.

Yes - but these documents are using the term correctly. YOU don't. "Roman" simply refers to the RITE (Latin/Roman). I go to a "Roman" Catholic Church, which again, refers to the RITE. There are over TWENTY Rites that make up the Catholic Church. Among these are Ruthenian, Alexandrian, Coptic...

Can you show them in context? For example - I never called anybody on this forum a "conspiracy loon". CONTEXT . . .

And I'm not here to convert people. I'm here to squash lies so that others who are reading these exchanges won't be seduced by these lies. As for the term, "Anti-Catholic" - this applies to people, like yourself, who have lied about what the Church teaches to make their argument. People who...

That's silly because we will ALL die one day. John is speaking of spiritual death caused by grave sin - NOT the death of the body. What sins is John talking about that will make you drop phsyically dead, hmmmm?

First of all - the promise to be guided to ALL truth by the Holy Spirit is NOT to the individual - but to the Church. In the NT, when Jesus speaks to the crowds, He speaks to ALL of us. However, when He instructs His Apostles - he is speaking to the leaders of His Church. This promise was made...

First of all - James ia talking about the LAW - the Mosaic Law. Secondly - he is prefacing his discourse on faith and works - and it is in THIS context that he speaks of the Law. 1 John 5:16 makes a clear distinction about the degrees of sin, stating that SOME sins cause spiritual death. If a...

Just a question: What about all of the people who have done just what you described and came out with completely different interpretations of Scripture? Which one of you is right and which one is wrong?

When a non-Catholic poster wants to have a charitable exchange - I engage in charitable conversation. When a poster starts out by spewing lies and falsehoods - I rebuke and correct them. It's usually the anti-Catholic who begins the ad hominem exchange . . .

Can you point to ONE instance of name-calling? Can you point to ONE instance where I called somebody a "Liar"?? Telling somebody that they just told a lie is not "name-calling". If I call them a "Liar" - then that is name-calling. Try being honest, for a change, huh?

And again - I don't "despise" anybody. That's a false accusation of YOURS. I despise LIES. As long as a person debates without resorting to lying - I have no problem with it. Everybody has a right to their opinions.

Yes - and I was responding to Aspen's post #1542 . . .

That's interesting because there is no "Roman Catholic Church." The official name of the Church is, "The Catholic Church". You, Stranger and others haven't done your homework - and that's why you use this false title in ignorance . . .

Infallibility isn't a trait of ANY human being - but a charism of the Holy Spirit (John 16:12-15). The Pope by himself is not infallible. But through the Holy Spirit, he is unable to teach error in matters of faith and morals. Infallibility doesn't mean that he is right about everything...