I am not trying to attack the church. I'm starting RCIA classes in a few weeks, and am still struggling with the whole "authority of the church" thing.
From research I've done, it appears the church claims to have authority granted from God, even the authority to forgive sins. Essentially they're saying "we're always right". Yet they've been on the wrong side of many things throughout history. I just heard this morning about how they backed the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War.
So, it's hard for me to believe in this authority of the church now, when doing so in the past would have meant I was misled.
If the church had some sort of mechanism where the followers could believe in the church as a concept, yet still question the men running the church, I think I could be on board.
2007-07-13
03:36:53
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