Isn't it more of a Marian Church with a pantheon of saints?
2007-10-20 13:06:14 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I wish, after the comment from the pope.
2007-10-20 13:11:01 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 8⤋
Only if Jesus resigns as the head of the Catholic church ... and only if the Holy Spirit resigns as the divine arbiter of all truth.
Your question merely proves that you have no clear idea of Catholic theology, which has been the only complete and authentic Christian theology, going all the way back to Pentecost.
No created being has ever been closer to the Holy Spirit than Mary, and no humans have ever been closer to God than the saints.
Amazing as it may seem, some of those saints might even be distantly related to you.
2007-10-20 20:25:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Catholics were the people who declared that the Bible is the holy word of God. Since all Protestant religions take the word of the Catholic Church on this, wouldn't Catholics renouncing Christ put the assumptions of those other Christian religions on shaky ground?
Ignoring that point -- your question shows that you do not understand Catholicism in the least. Catholics do not believe that Mary is a god -- but rather revere her as the mother of Jesus. They do not pray to her -- rather ask her to pray for them. As for Saints, don't all Christians believe that some Christians go to Heaven when they die? A saint is just one of those people. Catholics do not believe anything different here than Protestants. As with Mary -- they do not pray to saints -- but ask them to pray for them.
2007-10-20 20:48:28 · answer #3 · answered by Ranto 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
No
The Catholic Church was founded by Christ'
witnessed to Christ centuries before Protestantism ever grew out of Catholicism.
Mary and the other saints are not the center of Catholicism
The Catholic Church is the gold mine of all the other Christian churches.
2007-10-20 20:14:23 · answer #4 · answered by James O 7 · 9⤊ 1⤋
No.
Catholics share the belief in the Communion of Saints with many other Christians, including the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopal, and Methodist Churches.
The Communion of Saints is the belief where all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When you die and go to heaven, you do not leave this family.
Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints, you, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II.
As part of this family, you may ask your family and friends living here on earth to pray for you. Or, you may also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother living in heaven to pray for you.
Prayer to saints in heaven is simple communication, not worship.
Asking others to pray for you whether your loved ones on Earth or your loved ones in heaven is always optional.
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 946 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p5.htm#946
With love in Christ.
2007-10-20 23:34:35 · answer #5 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christianity is the term for a broad spectrum of Christian religions (Catholicism included). During the Great Schism, Christianity was broken into two parts; the Roman Catholic Church, and basically all other forms of Christianity, from Anglican to Presbitarian. So Catholcism is still a Christian Religion, but the term Christian is generally used to define the other side of the results of the Schism.
2007-10-20 20:23:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anastasia K 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Are you game enough to take the Catholic challenge?
Fundamentalists, Evangelicals and Pentecostals talk as if no case can be made for the Catholic Church. How sure are you that you are right and we are wrong?
If you are really in search of the truth you should not turn your back from this challenge.
http://www.fisheaters.com/challenge.html
Catholics who have doubts about their faith should also accept the challenge before they jump from the frying pan to the fire.
2007-10-20 21:46:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No it shouldn't. It is the founding church of Christianity, and what it believes is actually the very definition of Christianity, since it invented the religion.
Others that came along later and claim to be Christian, are not. They have formed another religion, different than the original Christianity founded by Catholicism, and though some aspects are the same, they cannot be called Christianity. They are something else, not the original.
P.S. Im not Catholic, but I am smart enough to know that when something is invented, the person that invented it is the one who defines what it is, not those who came along later.
2007-10-20 20:12:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 3⤋
Pride:
An unduly high opinion of oneself
Exaggerated self-esteem, conceit
Haughty behavior resulting from arrogance
An improper and excessive self-esteem known as conceit and arrogance
A sin of attitude and of the heart and spirit
A puffed up and inflated ego
Boasting and high-mindedness
A conceited sense of one's superiority
Highly exalted in attitude, opposite from the virtue of humility
Haughty:
Showing great pride on oneself and disdain
Contempt or scorn for others
Proud, arrogant, supercilious (disdain or contemptuous)
An arrogant spirit
"A haughty look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked are sin." (Proverbs 21:4)
"Everyone who is PROUD IN HEART IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD; though they join forces, none will go unpunished." (Proverbs 16:5)
For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.' Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
Boy oh boy, are you in trouble!!
2007-10-20 20:34:23 · answer #9 · answered by SpiritRoaming 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Ever been to Mass? Did you see the crucifix front and center? Stations of the Cross along both walls?
Silly boy.
"If any one says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen" (1 John 4:20)
2007-10-20 20:25:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Catholic Crusader--I love you, I have just returned fromMass and what a friend we have in Jesus huh? He is so wonderful I think from now on we should just type in silence in front of Herod---that says it all---they are not worth answering
2007-10-20 21:04:04 · answer #11 · answered by Midge 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋