Interview with Bishop Tissier de Mallerais

[Hartmann von Aue]

http://www.leforumcatholique.org/message.php?num=419991

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Even though Vatican II did have its positive improvements, quite peculiarly to the Roman church, it went into an extreme. The members of this Society seem to be good Christians, though Catholicism just might need a second Avignon to set this mess straight.

[Petr]

Even though Vatican II did have its positive improvements, quite peculiarly to the Roman church, it went into an extreme. The members of this Society seem to be good Christians, though Catholicism just might need a second Avignon to set this mess straight.
No true Protestant would be interested in popery "setting its mess straight."

As an institution, the Roman church is beyond reform or redemption (although its individual members are not, and can be saved by quitting it). Vatican can fall apart into dust and die for all I care.


Petr

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No true Protestant would be interested in popery "setting its mess straight."

As an institution, the Roman church is beyond reform or redemption (although its individual members are not, and can be saved by quitting it). Vatican can fall apart into dust and die for all I care.


Petr
Now-now, that wasn't saying that's what I'd wish, although sadly enough, unlike in the XVIth Century, the vast majority of people falling out of Catholicism's (direct or potential) embrace today end up being atheists, not Protestants.

Trying times.

[Petr]

Now-now, that wasn't saying that's what I'd wish, although sadly enough, unlike in the XVIth Century, the vast majority of people falling out of Catholicism's (direct or potential) embrace today end up being atheists, not Protestants.
In the 1st century, there were both superstitious Pharisees and unbelieving Sadducees, but the Pharisees weren't OK just because they were not Sadducees. Pox on both of their houses.

I firmly believe that true Christian faith is a narrow middle road between the Scylla of superstition and man-made traditions and Charybdis of barren rationalism and unbelief.


Petr

[Hartmann von Aue]

Petr, do you have something to say about the article, or are you just going to make vague sweeping condemnations of Catholicism?

Speaking of "man-made traditions."

Justification by Faith alone is in fact a doctrine that directly contradicts the Bible.

Not only is it not scriptural - it is diametrically opposed to it.