Protestants: If you expect your pastor to answer your questions...?

Question

...why have some of you gotten so angry that the Pope has answered the questions of Catholics?

Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070629_responsa-quaestiones_en.html

>>Yeah, but Billy Graham didn't get on Tv and say all Catholics are wrong and we are better than you are<<

Neither did the Pope.

>>So ALL those News Reports were Wrong????<<

About what exactly? If they claim the document was not a response to some questions, yes, they are wrong.

Answer 1

ah, let the fun begin!!!!!!!
the pope has to address a billion people not a few hundred. has anyone considered that the media reports are not always presented in an unbiased fashion? read the document itself,you can find it at www.vatican.va
the church has maintained this position from the start. we fully respect our seperated brothers and sisters in christ but the reality is the catholic church is the one true faith, not to say you wont get to heaven if you are not catholic or anything but it is still a reality. it is our prayer that we are all one in faith, jesus also wanted this.
www.scripturecatholic.com
www.fisheaters.com
www.askmeaboutgod.org
www.catholiceducation.org
more importantly scripture itself,a catechism and the writings of the early church fathers.
god bless.

Answer 2

Papa Benny's statements didn't bother me at all. Being that I'm not Roman Catholic, his statements have no effect on me unless they insight violence or such against me. This statement didn't, so it wasn't worth getting upset about.

Others did get upset because they saw it as divisive, but "my way or the highway (or low-way)" is at the center of Roman Catholicism, so it wasn't any big surprise here.

Answer 3

Christ “established here on earth” only one Church and instituted it as a “visible and spiritual community”, that from its beginning and throughout the centuries has always existed and will always exist, and in which alone are found all the elements that Christ himself instituted. “This one Church of Christ, which we confess in the Creed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic […]. This Church, constituted and organised in this world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the successor of Peter and the Bishops in communion with him”.

Christian Communities born out of the Reformation of the sixteenth century:

It is possible, according to Catholic doctrine, to affirm correctly that the Church of Christ is present and operative in the churches and ecclesial Communities not yet fully in communion with the Catholic Church, on account of the elements of sanctification and truth that are present in them. Nevertheless, the word “subsists” can only be attributed to the Catholic Church alone precisely because it refers to the mark of unity that we profess in the symbols of the faith (I believe... in the “one” Church); and this “one” Church subsists in the Catholic Church.




According to Catholic doctrine, these Communities do not enjoy apostolic succession in the sacrament of Orders, and are, therefore, deprived of a constitutive element of the Church. These ecclesial Communities which, specifically because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood, have not preserved the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic Mystery cannot, according to Catholic doctrine, be called “Churches” in the proper sense

Answer 4

for those who say I dont need the pastor to answer my questions only jesus is like saying I only need the head and not the body. To know Jesus intimately you must be familiar with his church. our relationship with God is through his creation. remember the 2 greatest commandments: love God=vertical, Love your neighbor=horizontal. This is the Cross we bear.!

Answer 5

Yeah, but Billy Graham didn't get on Tv and say all Catholics are wrong and we are better than you are...nanny nanny boo boo!

Answer 6

So ALL those News Reports were Wrong????
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6289014.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2750459.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_re_eu/pope_other_christians_4;_ylt=AgWIfFAE4__la7KS6NQEa5hbbBAF
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/other-churches-lacking-pope-says/20070711040209990001
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/vatican-repeats-other-christian/n20070710200709990010

Answer 7

I don't have a pastor. I have a priest. If I have a question, I look it up myself. Personally, I don't really care what the Pope says.

Answer 8

I don't expect my Pastor to answer my questions, only God can do that. My Pastor counsels me. HUGE DIFFERENCE!