Annie
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Bonnie said:Right, the host in the Catholic church once blessed is Christ's body
Yup saints are not to be prayed to including Mary, no rosaries....
Penance.... your right as far as I know
Also the way in which the end times are believed to come about... Christians believe in the Rapture and the Anti Christ, Catholics believe in a last ditch mass enlightenment by God to allow everyone to see their sins followed by signs of Christs coming such as the sun dancing in the sky, and time for everyone to repent, if enough people do heaven on earth happens, no disease, no death, we get beautiful bodies and youth for 1000 thousand years, at which point we ascend to heaven, the earth is finally destroyed, and Mary squishes Lucifers head once and for all. If we dont' repent, apocolapyse, fire, chastisement, then 1000 years of eutopian earth to his believers, followed by heaven.
That's my Readers Digest version..LOL
I don't think Protestants evil, wish they did the same with Catholics:
http://www.catholicleague.org/04press_releases/quarter1/040303_700club.htm
March 3, 2004
PAT ROBERTSON LECTURES CATHOLIC CHURCH
On The 700 Club today, TV evangelist Pat Robertson ran a segment on celibacy in the Catholic Church. Invited to appear with Robertson was therapist A.W. Richard Sipe. Sipe used the occasion of the latest report on sexual abuse by priests to challenge the wisdom of celibacy. Responding to what was said is Catholic League president William Donohue:
With great delight did the embittered ex-priest, Richard Sipe, inform his new friend Pat Robertson that the Catholic Church was more corrupt today than at any time since the Reformation. Enthralled by the figure of 4 percent of priests accused of molesting minors since 1950, Sipe failed to mention the results of national surveys taken by Christian Ministry Resources in 2002. The Christian Science Monitor summed up the surveys conclusion as follows: Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant . But dont look for the founder of the Christian Coalition to do a show on these findings.
According to Sipe, only 10 percent of priests are celibate. How did he arrive at this figure? Sipe, who calls his work guerrilla research (meaning he uses anecdotes given to him in his role as shrink), defines violations of celibacy to include sexual thoughts and desires. The wonder is why there are as many as 10 percent of priests who have never experienced such desires. And what is going to happen to the 90 percent who are guilty? Theyre going straight to Hell: You see, Sipe says, one thing about the Catholic teaching is that every sexual thought, or desire, or action, is mortally sinful. Every action, no matter how small, no matter how nuanced, will send a person directly to Hell. This suggests either profound ignorance of Catholicism or calculated malice. By the way, Robertsons gullibility on this matter is truly revealing.
Robertson closes with, Were not trying to point any fingers, obviously, but its something that wed like our Catholic brothers and sisters to do something about for their own good. For his own good, Robertson ought to stop with the lectures and start fixing the problems in his own house. Not that were trying to point any fingers. Obviously!
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...ertson+Catholic+Church&hl=en&client=firefox-a
On some Protestants that see Robertson as too 'pro-Catholic'
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...ertson+Catholic+Church&hl=en&client=firefox-a
Billy Graham was the original 'anti-Catholic' Protestant preacher, Robertson is following in his footsteps, going over to the enemy/money:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...billy+graham+catholics&hl=en&client=firefox-a