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Claiming to be the only true church

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posted by willf 492 days ago | status: queued

No, not us. The Vatican issued a statement saying the Catholic Church is the only true church. Maybe everyone else will fess up now and confess they think they have the only true church too.
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If they don't believe that, they have no ground to stand on. It's also interesting that the basis of the claim is not as much truth (though that matters too), but priesthood authority. Without authority to perform the sacraments, you have a "community" but not a Church (per the pope). In that context, maybe it's interesting that the RLDS have switched to "Community of Christ". Wonder why they left "Church" out of it?
written by TedB 492 days ago
Interesting article about different reactions to this at the SLTrib: http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_6368034 I liked the LDS response: Scott Trotter, spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, weighed in Friday saying, "We are neither offended nor concerned when other faith traditions assert their authority. As stated in our 11th Article of Faith: 'We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where or what they may.' "
written by willf 491 days ago
It's always puzzled me that more denominations don't make similar assertions.
written by forpeterssake 491 days ago
I welcome this statement from the Vatican. Finally someone else is openly claiming this. I heard so many times as a missionary that "it didn't matter what church you belonged to, as long as you believed." Hopefully more Catholics and other Christians will embrace this idea. If they did then I think more of the world would be more active in searching out the truth before embracing a faith. This the idea that we are all right is definitely one of the "subtle craftinesses (is that a word?)" keeping people from the truth.
written by circa1978 485 days ago
How did this story end up with a "0" , given the numbers below? Connor?
written by TedB 475 days ago

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