the word faith after the name of thier religion? ie Catholic Faith, others don't, Baptist, Presbyterians, Lutherens, even Amish don't call their religion the Amish Faith, the Lutherine Faith etc., etc. What is up with that?
2007-01-18 05:42:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Protestants being thus impious enough to make liars of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Apostles, need we wonder if they continually slander Catholics, telling and believing worse absurdities about them than the heathens did? What is more absurd than to preach that Catholics worship stocks and stones for gods; set up pictures of Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints, to pray to them, and put their confidence in them; that they adore a god of bread and wine; that their sins are forgiven by the priest, without repentance and amendment of life; that the pope or any other person can give leave to commit sin, or that for a sum of money the forgiveness of sins can be obtained ? To these and similar absurdities and slanders, we simply answer: "Cursed is he who believes in such absurdities and falsehoods, with which Protestants impiously charge the children of the Catholic Church. All those grievous transgressions are another source of their reprobation."
"But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A single contradiction is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church, and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ... Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced.
Source(s):
Against the Reformers
Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible online
Additional Reading
St Alphonsus Mary De Liguori (1696-1787)
Bishop and Doctor of the Church
2007-01-18 16:49:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be a couple of things... some people are lazy and capitalize more than they need to. (The word "mass" is a perfect example.) "Catholic Faith" is part of the title for many organizations and therefore in American English falls under what I call "title capitalization" rules.
For the most part, we don't need to capitalize the word "faith." And I think you hear "Catholic faith" more often than other denominations because there is such a structured hierarchy in place that has teachings that might not be held by all practicing Catholics.
2007-01-18 05:47:15 · answer #2 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got a good answer...
Christ's followers were christian. Man polluted it by calling it Christian.
catholic simply meant universal. Man polluted Christian by saying Catholic Christian.
See, what starts as a christian is good. When it becomes Christian that is bad. Because the name becomes more important than the one who originated the name.
2007-01-18 05:49:24 · answer #3 · answered by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, I've never heard anyone who is Baptist say, "I am of the Baptist Faith." They say, "I am Baptist." Perhaps it has something to do with the use of "Faith" in the definition of what they follow.
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2007-01-18 05:48:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are not the only ones.
2007-01-18 05:46:04 · answer #5 · answered by Angelz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋