thessalonian
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Why don't you study the backgrounds and the beliefs of the cardinals in waiting to become the next pope. Why are some conservative and some liberal? Why do they hold different and varying beliefs from each other? If they were all the same in belief there would be no problem in choice would there? But there is. Do some study on it. If you have such differences in your top leadership, imagine what differences there are from the head downward.Originally posted by DHK:
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Wrong! I have gone to dozens of Catholic Churches in my life and have not seen a single significant difference in the Mass that caused me to consider it invalid. I have only once heard doctrinal error from the pulpit (this was not in a sermon,though many of the sermons have been mushy and didn't get in to the meat of the faith). I have also been to many Protestant Churches and there has been significant doctrinal difference in the sermons even within one Church coming from different speakers along with considerable bickering about doctrine in my wifes old non-denom Church. You are simply dillusional on these points. Publically I only know a few priests in my area who openly contradict Church teaching (though they claim they don't).
DHK </font>[/QUOTE]While I don't neccessarily like there personal opinions as long as they don't teach them from the pulpit I don't care. None of them are proclaimed as infallible on an individual basis. I have heard perhaps 100 sermons on the Eucharist and no pries has ever denied it. Perhaps 50 on confession, no priest has ever denied it. Likely 50 on the papacy. No priest has ever denied it..... and on an on.
I heard one in favor of women priests. I wrote his archdiocese and they responded that he should not be doing that and informed me that he was going to be talked to.