I recently watched the below video regarding a former roman catholic priest who was in the services for 22 years and I was surprised in some of the things he mentioned taught by the church, I was wondering if there was any truth in the matter since he was a priest for 22 years.
I was wondering if someone could help me understand some of the Vatican teachings
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Even if he was a priest for 22 years that does not mean that what he says now is right.
Here's a website that has answered probably every question/objection to the Catholic Church:
http://www.catholic.com/
Catholic Answers has great resources. However, I don't recommend joining their open forums section.
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Here's a website that has answered probably every question/objection to the Catholic Church:
http://www.catholic.com/
Catholic Answers has great resources. However, I don't recommend joining their open forums section.
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I don't think he was a Priest. I don't have the time to watch the whole thing but I skimmed through and his arguments are the typical weak Protestant arguments which any knowledgeable Catholic could easily respond to. If he was a Catholic Priest he would know these things but he never addresses them.
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That's the shame of these ex-Catholic priests. Enough phoney ones have come down the pike that any presentation of a supposed ex-Catholic priest is going to be viewed with suspicion. Besides, ex-Catholic priests, in spite of our detractors assumptions, do not have any special kind of authority. The opposite is true. I wouldn't pay any attention to an ex-Catholic priest imagined or not.
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I only listened to 10 minutes of this. I doubt he was a priest. I know a few priests. His description of Seminary sounds a little odd.
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from your summaries above i wonder if there might have been problems with his formation from the get-go?
a program that i watched on EWTN this weekend mentioned about how when a new order is formed
there is much emphasis placed on the formation of the priests during their training years.
The reason being that when they are finished with seminary it is important that they each accurately reflect
the beliefs and practices of their order wherever they are sent,
so that one projected image of the beliefs and practices of that order is seen or heard,
no matter the person or the locality of where they are.
a program that i watched on EWTN this weekend mentioned about how when a new order is formed
there is much emphasis placed on the formation of the priests during their training years.
The reason being that when they are finished with seminary it is important that they each accurately reflect
the beliefs and practices of their order wherever they are sent,
so that one projected image of the beliefs and practices of that order is seen or heard,
no matter the person or the locality of where they are.
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Also Catholic Answers is an excellent source for answers about all things Catholic. Their open forums are excellent too. They put up with less crap that CF.
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I agree. It's orthodox Catholicism and Christianity, really. They don't put up with the ultra liberal anti Christian crap that goes on here.
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he does not make a lot of sense
one of the things he says is "before we learned anything about the Bible we learned greek philosophy in seminary"
and he claims that is done because you need the Philosophy of Aristotle to understand the Sacraments
I think he was talking about the theology of Transubstantiation?
yeah, you do not need an undergrad degree in Philosophy to understand that
this would be stuff you can learn over a weekend workshop, it does not take hours and hours of classroom time just for that
Priests need to study philosophy first, because we want men who are actually able to think
once you are able to think, then you can specialize in an area of study
he says he studies the Bible, but then he equates statues with graven images
the "graven image" is an idol, a statue is just a statue
God commanded that two statues golden statues of Cherubim be placed on the ark
the Temple of Solomon was filled with statues and images
God commanded that the Israelites upon a bronze serpent on a pole in order to be healed of snake bites
He used a snake sculpture to heal people
one of the things he says is "before we learned anything about the Bible we learned greek philosophy in seminary"
and he claims that is done because you need the Philosophy of Aristotle to understand the Sacraments
I think he was talking about the theology of Transubstantiation?
yeah, you do not need an undergrad degree in Philosophy to understand that
this would be stuff you can learn over a weekend workshop, it does not take hours and hours of classroom time just for that
Priests need to study philosophy first, because we want men who are actually able to think
once you are able to think, then you can specialize in an area of study
he says he studies the Bible, but then he equates statues with graven images
the "graven image" is an idol, a statue is just a statue
God commanded that two statues golden statues of Cherubim be placed on the ark
the Temple of Solomon was filled with statues and images
God commanded that the Israelites upon a bronze serpent on a pole in order to be healed of snake bites
He used a snake sculpture to heal people
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