The Catholic Convert Starter Pack: Bible → Daily Prayer → Daily Mass → Weekly Rosary → Nightly Confession → Bi-weekly Penance → Meat-free Fridays Books → Baltimore CC, Intro to the Devout Life Podcasts → Tim Gordon, AB & Dr Taylor Marshall What would you add...?

I see you refused correction yet again, instead opting to respond with a post that makes no sense.

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So, does the RCC have the "corner of the market", as it were, on understanding scripture? Is the RCC perfect in all their understanding of scripture? Where's the objective means of understanding scripture & what does that look like?

This woman was singing gospel music inside the St Peter's Basilica and was sent out for public noise. Was she right or wrong to do so ?

In the following thread, a Catholic influencer on X states plainly that “Protestantism is condemned heresy” and that “absolutely nothing in Vatican II” could overturn the condemnations and anathemas issued by the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century. On that latter point, he is correct according to Roman Catholic theology. Why? Because Rome has long treated Trent’s dogmatic decrees—especially those touching justification, the sacraments, and ecclesial authority—as binding, infallible, and irreformable teachings of the Church. Vatican II may have changed the tone, vocabulary, and pastoral posture toward Protestants, but it did not repeal Trent. What does the Roman Catholic Church actually teach about whether Protestants and Orthodox Christians can be saved outside full communion with Rome? Depending on which Catholic you ask, you may get different answers. Some will say, “Of course Protestants can be saved. Vatican II calls them separated brethren.” Others will say, “No one can knowingly reject the Catholic Church and be saved.” And the reason this gets confusing is because modern Roman Catholic ecclesiology tries to hold both claims together. So let’s look deeper. In 1964, the Second Vatican Council, commonly called Vatican II, stated in Lumen Gentium that the one Church of Christ “subsists in” the Catholic Church, which is “governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him.” Yet the same document also teaches that “many elements of sanctification and of truth” are found outside her visible structure. That creates the modern Roman Catholic framework: Rome claims the fullness of the Church while still acknowledging real, though imperfect, Christian communion beyond her visible boundaries. That is the current Roman position in miniature. Rome claims the fullness while saying that non-Catholic Christians and communities may possess real elements of sanctification and truth, but not the fullness. Then comes the hard edge of the claim. Lumen Gentium teaches that the Catholic Church is necessary for salvation because Christ is the one mediator and way of salvation, present in his body, the Church. It then says: “Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved.” So, if someone knowingly rejects Rome’s claim to be the Catholic Church made necessary by Christ, Rome’s own teaching says such a person “could not be saved.” Note that this isn't Protestant propaganda. Those are the actual words of Vatican II. But the same Vatican II also says baptized non-Catholic Christians are “honored by the name of Christian,” even though they do not profess the Catholic faith in its entirety or preserve communion with the successor of Peter. Confused yet? The Catechism goes on to say that properly baptized Christians who believe in Christ are in a “certain, although imperfect, communion with the Catholic Church.” It adds that with the Orthodox Churches this communion is so profound that it “lacks little” to permit common Eucharistic celebration. So, the formal teaching is this: Protestants are Christians, but imperfectly united. Orthodox are Churches, but wounded by lack of communion with Rome. Protestant communities may have real elements of grace and truth, but they are not Churches “in the proper sense” and do not possess the fullness Rome claims for itself. That is the essence of the teaching. But, Rome also says separated Churches and ecclesial Communities are “deficient in some respects,” yet not deprived of significance in the mystery of salvation, because the Spirit of Christ uses them as “means of salvation,” whose efficacy derives from “the very fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the Church.” Read that carefully. Your Protestant church may be a means of salvation. But according to Rome, its efficacy derives from the fullness entrusted to Rome. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith — Rome’s doctrinal watchdog, now called the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith — made this even more explicit in 2007. The CDF said Vatican II did not change Catholic doctrine on the Church, but “developed, deepened and more fully explained it.” It also said that “subsists in” indicates the full identity of the Church of Christ with the Catholic Church. The same CDF document distinguishes Eastern Churches from Protestant communities. Eastern Churches, because they have apostolic succession, priesthood, and Eucharist, may be called particular or local Churches, though they lack full communion with Rome. But communities born from the Reformation “cannot, according to Catholic doctrine, be called ‘Churches’ in the proper sense” because they lack apostolic succession in the sacrament of Orders and have not preserved the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery. So let’s not pretend this is simple. Rome wants to maintain the doctrine of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus — the ancient claim, given sharp medieval conciliar and papal formulations, that there is no salvation outside the Church — while also using Vatican II’s ecumenical language of separated brethren, imperfect communion, and elements of sanctification and truth outside her visible structure. The Catechism states the modern version this way: “Outside the Church there is no salvation” means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church, his Body. It then says those who knowingly refuse the Catholic Church cannot be saved, while those who through no fault of their own do not know Christ or his Church may still attain eternal salvation by grace. Herein lies the tension. To explain Roman Catholic doctrine on this question, you have to qualify almost every sentence. Protestants are separated brethren, but not in full communion. They are Christians, but deficient. Their communities — what we would call churches — may be used as means of salvation, but with an efficacy derived from Rome’s fullness. They may possess elements of sanctification and truth, but those elements properly belong to the one Church of Christ, which Rome says subsists in the Catholic Church. And Protestants may be saved, unless they knowingly reject the Catholic Church as necessary. That is not Protestant confusion. That is the complexity built into modern Roman Catholic ecclesiology. Is it any wonder why a traditionalist Catholic or SSPX adherent may emphasize one side of Catholic teaching and conclude that Protestants are in danger of hell, while a more conciliar Catholic may emphasize another side and speak warmly of us as separated brethren? And here is my Protestant objection. The New Testament says salvation is in Christ alone. Acts 4:12 does not say there is no salvation outside Roman jurisdiction. It says there is no salvation outside Jesus Christ. Ephesians 4 does not say there is one Roman see, one papal monarchy, and one universal jurisdiction. It says there is one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God. So when a Catholic tells me, “You cannot accept Christ while rejecting his Church,” I want to know what is being smuggled into the word “Church.” If by “Church” you mean the people of God united to Christ by faith, built on the apostolic gospel, and gathered under his Word and ordinances, I agree. But if by “Church” you mean the Roman Catholic Church governed by the successor of Peter and bishops in communion with him, with papal supremacy, universal jurisdiction, Marian dogmas, purgatory, indulgences, prayers to saints, and the whole Roman sacramental system made binding on the conscience of all Christians, then no. That is precisely the claim Protestants reject. Rome has not proven from Scripture or early church history that the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church is identical with Roman communion in the sense required by Roman dogma. So if Rome wants to tell Protestants, “Knowingly reject us and you are in danger of hell,” then say it plainly. But do not soften the claim with “separated brethren” language when convenient, then retreat to “no salvation outside the Church” when challenged. The real issue remains the same: Christ founded his Church. Rome claims to be that Church in the full institutional and dogmatic sense required by Roman Catholicism. Protestants reject that claim. Citing verses about Christ, the apostles, baptism, church authority, and the body of Christ does not prove Roman supremacy. It merely assumes several theological conclusions and then draws a Roman conclusion from those assumptions. Is it any wonder different Catholics tell Protestants different things about salvation?

Only a SATANIC LIAR would print something that DISPROVES the ADDED ON STEP OF PURGATORY in the hopes that no one knows what you did. I do. Hebrews 9:27 King James Version 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 2 steps, DEATH . JUDGEMENT. No PURGATORY where you get to work off your sins and have others pray your stupid butt up like an episode of Survivor .

Just gotta jump through some hoops and fast. But then you don’t have to jump anymore. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The middle class is the most expensive place to live, and no one talks about it. Lower income households get assistance. The wealthy use tax strategies and loopholes. But the middle class pays full taxes, full tuition, full healthcare, full everything. So you work 50 hours a week just to stay in the same place and fund everyone’s life except yours.

Have you discovered that the people with issues and questions about the divinity of Jesus Christ are Muslims and Catholics? Cut from the same cloth

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