Zone1 I just figured out why Protestants are so obstinate against the Catholic Church

[Zincwarrior]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2024/10/16/archdiocese-los-angeles-settlement/

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to settle more than 1,300 claims of childhood sexual abuse. The sprawling agreement is believed to be the largest single child sexual abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese and comes after a state law provided a three-year window to revive past civil claims of sexual abuse involving minors.


Some of the claims date to the 1940s, and the acts are alleged to have been perpetrated by archdiocesan clergy, lay people and religious order priests and clergy from other dioceses who were serving in Los Angeles, a letter from Archbishop José H. Gomez said. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is the largest Catholic diocese in the United States.
“I am sorry for every one of these incidents, from the bottom of my heart,” Gomez wrote in the letter. “My hope is that this settlement will provide some measure of healing for what these men and women have suffered.”

 

[The Irish Ram]

i still say the main reason protestants are against the Catholic faith is that

well, 1) they don't even understand it (but think they do)

2) they just assume Luther had valid reasons for dividing Christendom (so they don't investigate the history)

3) they are prideful.. refuse to admit they could be wrong about at least a few things

How about Jews? Why haven't they converted? And shouldn't Jews that believe in Christ be Messianic Catholics?
If Christ started the Catholic Church, surely when He returns it will be to the Vatican, right? Did the Bible get His return wrong?
When did Jesus shed His Rabbinical prayer shawl for a rosary? Why did Christ fail to mention the church that you think He started and focus on the churches that Paul started?

Could Luther have seen in the Catholic Church in his day the same thing you see in it now? That it is not Christian? You are the modern day Luther.
What you fail to understand is that no matter what era of the Catholic Church you want to go back to, there was corruption.

Christ is a Jewish Rabbi, then, now and in the future. Denominations mean nothing to Him. He loves us, not our churches. We are His Church.

 

[Mashmont]

The Catholic church has been a corrupt cesspool for centuries.

You're saying one of two things:
1) Jesus Christ is corrupt and his teachings are corrupt
or
2) Fallible human beings within the RCC have done corrupt deeds.

Since #1 is impossible, you have to be saying #2. To which I would ask you: Which organization in history has ever had human beings who did not commit corrupt deeds?

My point is, your beef is not with Jesus or His Church; it is with fallible human beings and their bad actions. So let's please always separate the two.

 

[hobelim]

Look who is at the helm in the Vatican?!

Need i say more? That guy is not Catholic,

Of course he is catholic. What I find even more offensive than anything you said is that they were trying to peddle him off as the first Latino pope even though he is 100% Italian, the child of immigrants who fled to Argentina.

 

[hobelim]

How about Jews? Why haven't they converted?

Because they know a crock of shit when they smell it. God became an edible Jewish man....

 

[ding]

 

[kjw47]

It's a big revelation to me, although I kind of had the pieces of the puzzle for the last 10 years or more.

I used to think they were obstinate because it's been 500 LONG years since the Catholic Church was THE Church in the world for Christians.. Luther divided the Church and now we have something like 40,000 different denominations, all teaching their own thing.

But it is not just this 500 year gap.. Look who is at the helm in the Vatican?!

Need i say more? That guy is not Catholic, not Christian and supports all kind of liberal causes.

I've known that for years and known that non-Catholic people who appreciate Jesus did not like Francis, meaning they didn't find him to be Christian. But I just today got it why they think Catholicism is not truly Christian.. namely: the Vatican is NOT!

So yeh, we can thank not only Luther but all the fake popes we've had in the last 65 years for all this evil that keeps people out of Heaven.

It is beyond disgusting

They read the bible is why they are against Catholicism because the bible proves they are false. Unfortunately the protestants only had altered and error filled Catholicism translating to go by thus could not correct much thus became a mass of confusion by using confused Catholicism translation.
Its fact Jerome used a latinized version of the Hebrew scriptures to do the Vulgate. That latinized version had errors because there were no words in latin to match the Hebrew words thus used alternate words.
Like i am that i am does not exist in Hebrew translation, i will be what i will be is correct.
The Jw leaders were allowed into Catholic Archives either late 1960,s or early 70,s and they came out with 100% proof= the spirit, water and blood are the 3 witness bearers, Catholicism put Father, son and holy spirit to mislead. They JW,s were never allowed back in for exposing that error.
You best relook sir.