speaking of worst doctrines of all we have
maryology
Rooted in both Testaments. The current anti-Mary animus infecting many circles of non-Catholics contradicts the reformers. They are man made traditions conjured up by Protestant liberals and atheists and are less than 200 years old. This sparked a reaction with concerned Protestants and the Fundamentalist Movement was formed to counter the growing threat of Modernism, what Pope Pius called "the synthesis of all heresies".
The scandal of a decapitated earthly body is evident by looking in the yellow pages under "churches". Most "Bible Alone" churches can't even agree whether or not Baptism is an essential doctrine due to the
multitude of sole authority, an oxymoron.
Thoroughly biblical.
- The pious use of indulgences dates back into the early days of the Church, and the principles underlying indulgences extend back into the Bible itself.
- The principles behind indulgences are as clear in Scripture as those behind more familiar doctrines, such as the Trinity. Primer on Indulgences
Luther mistakenly blamed the
doctrine for what he saw was
corruption which was formally condemned by the Church a few short years later. Psychologists have determined Luther had bouts of manic-depressive psychosis based on the analysis of his writings. The historic Church is in a perpetual state of renewal; that's why we have councils. If Luther had shown up 10 years later, a great wound to unity may have been avoided. Non-Catholics have been bellyaching over a no-longer-existing issue for 500 years.
Originated in Judaism. Your roots are severed.
FOR the dead, not TO the dead. There is no such thing as dead people in heaven. Contrary to the opinions of frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Catholics, saints in heaven can't do a single thing on earth without God. They merely intervein. They have no power in themselves to answer anything. That's God's job, not the saints. Why this simple concept is so difficult to understand is anybody's guess.
The Communion of Saints was a universally accepted tradition that predates the canon of Scripture that no one objected to for 15 centuries. The evidence is there for anyone who wishes to see it. You divorce yourself from the authentic beliefs and practices of the early Church that clearly existed before all the books blossomed into the Bible. This fact compels anti-Catholics to re-write history of their own making, and dismiss the written testimonies of the same men who proved inspiration of Scripture. It's contradictory, self defeating and absurd.
They are declared
already in heaven, they are
not elevated to heaven. SAINTS Peter and Paul were never formally canonized, because they were universally acclaimed SAINTS by all the SAINTS on earth.
It would be as dumb as the church infallibly declaring that water is wet.
and last but not least a false gospel condemned in Galatians 1.
I challenge you to make a brief summary of your version of the true gospel, and I will show you where it is proclaimed at every Mass. I'll try to
show you, not punch you in the face. Please retract your claws.
EVANGELIUM VITAE to all People of Good Will
on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life
The incomparable worth of the human person
2. Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God. The loftiness of this supernatural vocation reveals the greatness and the inestimable value of human life even in its temporal phase. Life in time, in fact, is the fundamental condition, the initial stage and an integral part of the entire unified process of human existence. It is a process which, unexpectedly and undeservedly, is enlightened by the promise and renewed by the gift of divine life, which will reach its full realization in eternity (cf. 1 Jn 3:1-2). At the same time, it is precisely this supernatural calling which highlights the relative character of each individual's earthly life. After all, life on earth is not an "ultimate" but a "penultimate" reality; even so, it remains a sacred reality entrusted to us, to be preserved with a sense of responsibility
and brought to perfection in love and in the gift of ourselves to God and to our brothers and sisters.
The Church knows that this Gospel of life, which she has received from her Lord,
1 has a profound and persuasive echo in the heart of every person-believer and non-believer alike-because it marvelously fulfils all the heart's expectations while infinitely surpassing them. Even in the midst of difficulties and uncertainties,
every person sincerely open to truth and goodness can, by the light of reason and the hidden action of grace, come to recognize in the natural law written in the heart (cf. Rom 2:14-15) the sacred value of human life from its very beginning until its end, and can affirm the right of every human being to have this primary good respected to the highest degree. Upon the recognition of this right, every human community and the political community itself are founded.
In a special way, believers in Christ must defend and promote this right, aware as they are of the wonderful truth recalled by the Second Vatican Council:
"By his incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every human being".
2 This saving event reveals to humanity not only the boundless love of God who
"so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (John 3:16), but also the incomparable value of every human person.
The Church, faithfully contemplating the mystery of the Redemption, acknowledges this value with ever new wonder.
3 She feels called to proclaim to the people of all times this "Gospel", the source of invincible hope and true joy for every period of history.
The Gospel of God's love for man, the Gospel of the dignity of the person and the Gospel of life are a single and indivisible Gospel.
For this reason, man-living man-represents the primary and fundamental way for the Church.
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3. "...Today this proclamation is especially pressing because of the extraordinary increase and gravity of threats to the life of individuals and peoples, especially where life is weak and defenseless. In addition to the ancient scourges of poverty, hunger, endemic diseases, violence and war, new threats are emerging on an alarmingly vast scale.
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This is a reflection of The Gospel that Christophany thinks is false.