Missing pages from one's bible

[The Liturgist]

Certainly the Catholic Church is a big target because of pro-life. But so many of the fake or greatly embellished anti-Catholic stories seem to survive for centuries no matter how many times refuted. We are all on a journey and we share so much, it would be much better to discuss how to combat Satan.

I agree entirely. I am so tired of pointless criticism of the Roman Catholic Church on various grounds, most of which are utterly baseless, and none of which are helpful (that apply on a church-wide basis). I do have specific criticisms of a few recent decisions of Pope Francis, and of some individual bishops (for example, the new Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, who stopped wearing the Shash, the beautiful traditional headgear of his office, related to the Shashta worn by all Assyrian bishops, on the basis that he regarded it as elitist, when he could rather have authorized all of his bishops to wear the Shash and in so doing brought the praxis of the Chaldean church closer to that of the Assyrian church, which it has been pursuing reunification with aggressively (in 2016 for example, the Chaldean Patriarch suggested to the Assyrian Patriarch and Holy Synod that the two churches reunite into one East Syriac church in communion with Rome, this being in stark contrast to the relationships between some other Eastern Catholic churches and their Orthodox counterparts. However these criticisms are not criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches, or the members thereof.

I particularly admire our mutual friend @midgie for the posts on important events of prayerful concern in OBOB.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

I am so tired of pointless criticism of the Roman Catholic Church on various grounds, most of which are utterly baseless

Many of these criticisms are inherited from past ages when war and torture were part of resolving religious differences. They have no valid place among Christians today, yet they continue because they are a cultural element in many denominations. If only Christians would turn away from past prejudices and examine the facts available to them today. There is so little excuse for remaining ignorant of what any church teaches now when nearly every significant body of Christians has a web presence and abundantly documents their beliefs and practises.

 

[Erose]

There is so little excuse for remaining ignorant of what any church teaches now when nearly every significant body of Christians has a web presence and abundantly documents their beliefs and practises.

To be honest, I do not blame anyone for being ignorant of any other church's teaching than their own, because quite frankly, especially within the denominations that have history, it is a lot to learn one's own faith. I will be honest, I am the first to say that I'm completely ignorant on those denominations that I have very little interaction with such as let's say the free will baptists, which we do not have many around my neck of the woods. And even those that I do have interaction with, I will never know as well as I know my own faith, even when it comes to Southern Baptist and Pentecostal doctrine, both of which I have been members of, and am married to a Southern Baptist. I remember the basics, but that is about it.

The issue I have though, is even after one is corrected of their false assertions (about my faith), they ignore the correction, and double down on their ignorance.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

The issue I have though, is even after one is corrected of their false assertions (about my faith), they ignore the correction, and double down on their ignorance.

I have seen the same.