What about the elephant in the room?

Do you agree that there is corruption in the Church?

  • I agree that the there is much corruption in the Catholic Church but God will bring the Church back

    Votes: 9 69.2%
  • I think you are exagerating the problems in the Church. The Church is fine.

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • I agree that the there is much corruption in the Catholic Church and this disproves its claims

    Votes: 3 23.1%

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Stabat Mater dolorosa

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I have thought the same thing - just like in the book of Judges, or most of the Old Testament really.

And we have bad bishops - some are actual criminals, some are just publicly terrible teachers of heresy like Robert Barron. But how many bishops are actually speaking out against this? I think there are 264 active bishops in the US - do more than 1% of them actually speak out against this stuff? Probably not more than 3% really - leaving us 97% poor leaders - that looks about right from what we see.

Only time we hear from our bishop is when they play his video to ask for money.

How's bishop Robert Barron a heretic? I'm really curious about this. I consider him to be a rather solid voice to be honest.
 
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And he seems to keep making statements like this:

Most of us remember the Bishop Robert Barron controversy when he told Ben Shapiro in an interview that Jesus Christ is the “privileged route to Salvation,” failing to inform Shapiro in charity that no one comes to the Father except through Christ, which the Scriptures clearly state.
 
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Hmm. I agree its awful and rather relativistic, but still...
I've read so much solid Catholicism written by his hand. I believe we all spread some heresy at times, you know as a mistake of some sort.
This goes for clergy aswell, it's not easy to say the right thing all of the time.
I don't know. Maybe his a mix of good and bad?

I'm not trivializing heresy, but sometimes I've experienced first hand the agonizing regret of something I've said and done. Things that is uncatholic and misleading to seekers.

We all make mistakes and what tells us about the true intention of a person is the sum of their teachings I believe. Is it overall Orthodox or is it heterodox?
Even St. Augustine believed in predestination for example, but that one heresy doesn't make him a heretic.
 
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The times I've heard him speak or read his stuff he seemed like a quite talented apologist to me.
How's bishop Robert Barron a heretic? I'm really curious about this. I consider him to be a rather solid voice to be honest.
 
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Lord have mercy. My grandmother was a lifelong Catholic and it really hurt deep to see her ask in her will that she specifically not be given any kind of Catholic funeral or be in any way associated with the RCC. She died only a little while after the revelation of abuse in the modern RCC, which really destroyed her faith. I can only hope that in the same way she still kept the crosses that she had collected while travelling the world up in her dining room, in addition to religious art and icons she found in Egypt and Russia, she may have somehow kept some sort of faith in Christ in her heart, and that this will be accepted by Christ, the Just Judge, despite her personal pessimism towards the Church she was raised in, which was clearly motivated by personal feelings of pain and betrayal. It warmed my heart when a family friend, who lived in NY and hence didn't know anything about my grandmother's request (my family is mostly in CA), had a mass said in her name when he learned of her passing. Lord, accept the supplications of Your servants.

It is just gutting to think of how many other people are like her: lifelong faithful Catholics who just couldn't/can't do it anymore after so much of this stuff. There's only been more since she died. None of you guys, the everyday faithful in the pews, deserve any of this. It is a scandal and a tragedy, and I really do hope that something is done about it to deal with it and put an end to it, for the sake of the name of Christ our God which is profaned by the wickedness of those who commit and cover up for satanic acts.

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The one consolation for all of this is that we have to remember that nothing escapes the eye of God.

Even as Jesus was tortured and mocked and spat upon, the enemies of God will do also to us, and they will do it publicly and with pride.
And as long as this epidemic of scorn and mockery and debauchery continues unchecked, both inside and outside of the Church, we will become more liable to fall under it's rule and influence.

We have already seen it begin to take over our public schools and our innocent little children.
It has crept into the Church, and has taken a couple of good stabs at taking over the U.S, government, and other world governments as well. In some it has succeeded.

But by the grace of God, this debauchery will NOT triumph!
The three things that debauchery cannot stand against are:
1. The Light of God.
2. The truth of God.
3. The judgement of God.

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah were judged, and could not withstand destruction in their day,
so too will it be in our time.:amen:
 
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This link has some info: Bp. Robert Barron's Spiritual Poison

A little digging, and all kinds of things come up. He's a very watered down, twist the faith, don't teach truth bishop.
Consider the source. Church Militant does some good things but also goes overboard from time to time. Barron IS a pope Francis appointee but for the most part he is good. He has a better track record than Church Militant.
 
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We all make mistakes and what tells us about the true intention of a person is the sum of their teachings I believe. Is it overall Orthodox or is it heterodox?
Even St. Augustine believed in predestination for example, but that one heresy doesn't make him a heretic.
Augustine's position on predestination is Catholic. What Calvin did in going beyond Augustine is not. Predestination is not heretical in the Augustinian explanation (Augustine is still considered the Doctor of Grace) but it is heretical in Calvin's explanation.
 
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I give up - what's the third?
For the Third prong, I'll refer you back to Genesis.

In the Garden of Eden there were two trees: The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of God.

Eve, in her envy of God, chose the latter, and Adam did nothing to stop her, so both were guilty.
God put an angelic guard around the Tree of Life in the Garden, and kicked Adam and Eve out of there. But they took the knowledge with them into the World, (both the good and the bad) and the result is what we are seeing today: The war between Good and Evil.

Today there are fewer and fewer moral or legal restrictions against experiencing everything.

The lack of restrictions is the perverted fruit of that first Tree.
Instead, existing laws against all sorts of behavior that had been either restricted or illegal are being struck down, walls that used to protect are being smashed, and public opinion is more liberal than ever.

In our time that false Tree of Knowledge has sprung up across the Earth, spreading it's corrupted fruit. That corruption has resulted in the quickly spreading promotion of debauchery: The Third Prong.
 
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The times I've heard him speak or read his stuff he seemed like a quite talented apologist to me.

He was. Until he traded his knowledge for a different hat.
 
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So you think he has changed his position on things he previously taught?
I think he has some silver coins in his pocket. 13 of them.
I don't think that he has changed his positions, so much as I think that he has learned to couch his opinions in different terms, which is a bit different.

For example, two men could both support the idea of freedom for all men.
But for one man that freedom might look like Socialism, while for another man that freedom might look like Democracy.

Here is another example of Bishop Baron back in 2013, in a discussion on the parable of the young woman who was delivered from an evil harassing Spirit by the Apostle Paul.

In the video he discusses the opinion held of that scriptural passage by a woman who is an Episcopal Bishop, and how her interpretation differs from the traditional interpretation.
Note please his attitude in the presentation.
 
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He's bad news. He preaches "Jesus is the privileged way, but not the only way".

Jesus said he was the only way.

Last Sunday in our reading in the Gospel of St. Luke Jesus said he came not to bring peace but a sword. That's because he's the only way. Barron's teaching is dangerous.
Barron comes to bring earthly comfort.

I'm going with what Jesus said.
 
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He's bad news. He preaches "Jesus is the privileged way, but not the only way".

Jesus said he was the only way.

Last Sunday in our reading in the Gospel of St. Luke Jesus said he came not to bring peace but a sword. That's because he's the only way. Barron's teaching is dangerous.
Barron comes to bring earthly comfort.

I'm going with what Jesus said.

That is not at all what the Bishop teaches unless someone cherry picks and does not take the full body of his comments into consideration. He even answered these slanderous charges.
 
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Consider the source. Church Militant does some good things but also goes overboard from time to time. Barron IS a pope Francis appointee but for the most part he is good. He has a better track record than Church Militant.

Yep
 
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The Bishop has said Christ is the way and then presented the valid early Church view of righteous pagan. Nuance bothers many, but not the Church.
 
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