Christianity Defective?
That’s what he thinks. From the Nicole Winfield AP is the Pope’s latest faux pas.
Pope Benedict XVI reasserted the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation.
Not so, not so. Mind you, most churches do it so it’s not that big a deal. Join [insert choice of Christianity] or you’re going to hell when you die. Now in Islam, it’s convert/submit or they will kill you. No waiting for the afterlife of torment. That’s what they think. They’re all wrong.
The new document — formulated as five questions and answers — restates key sections of a 2000 text the pope wrote when he was prefect of the congregation, “Dominus Iesus,” which riled Protestant and other Christian denominations because it said they were not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the “means of salvation.”
The commentary repeated church teaching that says the Catholic Church “has the fullness of the means of salvation.”
Wrong again. And he’s going to get a lot of flak for this. Or not. Pot. Kettle. Black. kind of thing.
“Christ ‘established here on earth’ only one church,” said the document released as the pope vacations at a villa in Lorenzago di Cadore, in Italy’s Dolomite mountains.
The other communities “cannot be called ‘churches’ in the proper sense” because they do not have apostolic succession — the ability to trace their bishops back to Christ’s original apostles — and therefore their priestly ordinations are not valid, it said.
Apostacy more like it. Popes have changed the message from what Jesus taught. A lot. Kindof invalidates their apostolic succession. Sides which, Jesus was a Jew.
