Hypothetically if Jesus walked into a Catholic Church today, would he like what he saw?

Answer 1

I very much doubt it, and he would probably hate to see the vatican and all the money spent there, when it could be doing real good in the world

Answer 2

I would say NO, I have nothing against Catholics, I was originally raised Catholic, but a lot of the 'Church' establishment and rules have been made by men. It would be the same for any Church, High Church of England, Anglican etc. In a lot of high churches especially Catholics and C of E, there are so many rules and regulations been put in place that one must follow before we can have entrance into Heaven. As my husband always says, when Jesus returns, He would do exactly what He did when He was here, give sermons on the side of a hill, and not set up a 'church' with rules and regulations. In my own opinion the more rules there are the less space there is for God.

Answer 3

As someone has already said Jesus is in the Catholic Church always.

Your question points to the fundamental basis of Christianity and His Church. That is, can we trust in His promises to His Church?

The first promise we should look at is His promise that He would be with His Church until the Parousia. The obvious sign is that He is present in both a corporeal and Spiritual reality in the Catholic Church. Therefore, Christ has not failed in this promise. Another promise is that the “gates of hell will not prevail against the Church”. This promise suggest that the Church will be under constant attack but that it will remain faithful and fulfill His promise for all time. Again we see His Church following the teaching of the early Church which is the teaching of Christ and the apostles upon which the Church is built. We see that the Church indeed is built upon the foundation of rocks with Christ as the cornerstone and the disciples as the 12 foundation stones of the Church. That same foundation has been built upon throughout the age with apostolic succession which has preserved the truth of the Gospel and the veracity of teaching. This brings to mind another promise and that is that the Church is the “bulwark and ground of the truth” where all of humanity can come to receive His grace through the Sacraments and know that the teaching of the Church provides the ark from the world where all that come may be saved.

Today there are tens of thousands of churches and ecclesiastical groups but the one established by Christ, His Church, stands alone as the one remaining true to Him. Through the winds of change and the theological storms of doctrines and practice, His Church has remained strong against the world, being a part of the world but not of the world. Clearly the Church is filled with the Spirit of God and represents a window into the heavenly realm giving hope to a fallen humanity for eternity with a loving God.

He would not be surprised at all when He came to His Church but simply say to some, “Why did you doubt me”?

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 4

Jesus Christ never promised that the Church he will found in Peter will be a perfect Church. What he promised was he will be with his Church and guide it until the end of the age.

My answer to your question is he will be pleased at some things and displeased at other things.

The Catholic Church is a Church of sinners and much suffering. It is also a Church of saints and scholars. The story of the Catholic Church is a divine and human story. The Church is divine in its Founder, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the only founder of a religion who claimed to be God, and proved that claim by rising from the dead. The Catholic Church is also human - afflicted with all the frailties of human nature - the sin and suffering, but also the saintliness and scholarship. When the Church was failing God, God raised up prophets or reformers. A reformer is one who changes people's hearts, not revealed doctrine. There have been thousands of great reformers in the Catholic Church, like St. Francis of Assisi, St. Clare, St. Benedict, St. Teresa of Avila, etc. The Catholic Church and the Bible have not, in 2000 years, changed any of the many truths revealed by God; among these truths:
a. that Holy Communion is really and truly the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ,
b. devotion to Mary,
c. confession,
d. praying for the dead (Purgatory),
e. the Pope is the visible head of the Church on earth. (Christ of course, is the invisible head of the Church.)

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Answer 5

If you are referring to the Church building itself, there is no reason to expect Jesus not to like what He sees.

Answer 6

Catholics are not saved and are not Christians. Catholics believe a false gospel of works that leads to eternal hell.

Bible teachers that said that the Vatican and the catholic cult are an antichrist: John Bunyan, John Huss, John Wycliffe, John Calvin, William Tyndale, John Knox, Thomas Bacon, John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, Samuel Cooper, John Cotton, and Jonathan Edwards

Answer 7

If Jesus was to return and walk anywhere on this planet today he most definitely would not like what he would see. Especially in the organized religions of today.

Answer 8

Jesus, the itinerant day laborer, would very much like what he saw. Jesus came from Mexico and he attended a Catholic Church in Mexico. So, today would be like many other days that he spent inside a Catholic Church.

Oh, I see. You meant the fictitious "King of the Jews" that was promoted by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 3rd century of the Common Era. The same Jesus that was invented by the delusional, evil Saul of Tarsus, that spent most of his adult life persecuting non-Jews in the 1st century of the Common Era and invented a messianic composite figure to get even with the Jews he formerly worked for that would not let him ascend to priestly status among them. The Jesus that had virtually the same life story as dozens of pagan heroes from pre-Judaic times. Well that Jesus couldn't walk into a Catholic Church, that character is fictitious.

Answer 9

This question is not hypothetical, nor does it relate only to Catholics. We need to set your own lives, houses and churches in order. Should he arrive on our watch, it would help if he found us honouring him, not anyone else.

Or, to quote that wonderful spiritual saying by Clint; Do we feel lucky?

Answer 10

I suspect not; the Roman Catholic church has become quite distant from what Jesus originally taught. Certainly they do many good things but then so do lots of humanitarian organisations that have no interest in God.

The main problem I think Jesus would have is that the Roman Catholic church has strayed from the biblical Gospel of Justification through faith into a gospel of works. It has become institutionalised religion based on tradition not faith.
The powerful life changing message found in the bible is very different to that which the Roman Catholic church preaches today.

Answer 11

Probably not most churches, period. There would be some churches He would be pleased with, but I think the majority of churches (Catholic or otherwise) would be ashamed to have Christ set foot on their property.