beginning of the catholic church

A. Priests developed the printing press.
B. The Catholic Church ordered priests to marry.
C. The pope declared a day of introspection.
D. The Catholic Church began to use the Inquisition more forcefully to combat the spread of Protestantism.

Kind of loaded choices, aren't they? What about the Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation? Not everything Rome did was evil.

2008-11-20 13:19:58 by andrew l

wwww.louisck.com driven by simple curiosity, I did some investiagative reporting and found out some surprising things about the Catholic Church...

After what they described as years of soul searching, reflection, anguish and intimidation some married priests in Zambia mainly from the Catholic Church have decided to come out in the open and begin conducting mass under the auspices of the Movement for Married Priests.

The Movement founded by excommunicated Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo was launched last September amidst fears that it would establish a new sect in Africa funded by Reverend Sun Myung Moon as a rival to Roman Catholicism.

YEEGADS! Rev Moon has said he is the Messiah..
False Prophets are being hurled all over the planet...

Just more signs...writings all over the wall..
Thoughts?

Proof or stop posting.

2007-08-09 14:34:37 by crimmsonandclover

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with all due respect AMDG, I am not asking why it began. I believe the verses and your interpertation of the content is open to speculation. I am wondering when people decided that asking for forgiveness from eachother and directly to god wasn't sufficent and began going to a priest to be forgiven. When that power to forgive was given to men of the catholic church.

I believe that public confessions were first the norm, the sin was confessed before the other Catholics, and later the discipline was changed to make them private. I think as times changed the complexity of certain sins made private confessions more needed. Also, as time progressed, more frequent reception of Holy Communion occured, therefore confession was needed even more. (If you didn't know most Catholics prior to Vatican 2 went to confession every week) So from all the Catholic history books I have read and writings of the Church Fathers, confession has been in practice since the times of the Apostles, our first priests.

2006-04-21 11:57:09 by Austin L

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The Roman Catholic Church began the Catholic Inquisition, the Inquisition was charged with discovering, trying, convicting, torturing and killing of all persons who did not convert to the Catholic faith, heretics, pagans, all free-thinking people, scholars, etc, and for over 300 years, about 50,000 innocent people were burned alive at the stake.

Ohh My Goodness, Catholic 2 is so Incorrect.
The Inquisition was a Roman Catholic invention intended to root out all sorts of "heresies." The Inquisition used torturous means to force confessions out of people. Thousands were killed mercilessly and unjustly.

The Protestant Reformation distances itself from the Catholic Inquisition. However, it has its own sordid history and the witch trials we had here in America among some Puritans is an example. They allowed their paranoia and ignorance to overtake reason and scripture. As a result, many people were killed because they were accused of being witches -- and they weren't.

Again, this does not mean that Christianity is false anymore than the police force is false because one or two cops did bad things in the name of the law. Instead of looking at the two cops, the whole of the police force, its goals, other cops, and its history of sacrifice and protection must be examined as well. The same as Christianity. It has a great history of helping countless people, establishing orphanages, building shelters, helping famine ravaged countries, and seeking to aid the downtrodden.

If anyone wishes to condemn Christianity because of the failures of its members, then will they also look at its successes and approve of Christianity? It would only be fair to look at the whole of Christian history and more importantly at what the Bible actually teaches, in particular the New Testament, from which Christianity is derived.

Believe in Christianity because Jesus Christ claimed to be God in flesh, died for our sins, rose from the dead, and has given us the New Testament. Believe in Jesus because He performed miracles in front of eyewitnesses, and He said that He was the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). Believe Christianity because of who Jesus is, not because of what some so called Christians did in error.

2009-05-23 20:21:54 by greg_novella

I was raised a Catholic and I still am a Catholic, I am a free-thinking Catholic, I believe Jesus was a historical figure of staggering influence, perhaps the most enigmatic and inspirational leader the world has ever seen, he founded new philosophies, he inspired millions to better lives, he preached about love, kindness and a single God, I believe in God, I believe that Jesus is the son of God, I believe that Jesus is God made flesh, Jesus was my first childhood hero, and I still believe going to Church is a great way to communicate to God...

Between 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany outlawed, gathered up, and burned books which did not correspond with Nazi ideology, and Nazi Germany committed the cruelest genocide and mass murder in the history of mankind, the Holocaust, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million innocent people...

Centuries earlier, the early Roman Catholic Church outlawed, gathered up, and burned books which did not correspond with their ideology, the Gnostic gospels, anyone who chose the Gnostic gospels was deemed a heretic, the Latin word haereticus means 'choice,' those who 'chose' the Gnostic gospels were the world's first heretics. Fortunately, in the 1940s, some of the gospels that the Roman Catholic Church attempted to eradicate managed to survive, the Nag Hammadi Library...

Then the Roman Catholic Church began the Catholic Inquisition, the Medieval Inquisition (1184–1230s), the Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834), the Portuguese Inquisition (1536–1821), the Roman Inquisition (1542 – c. 1860 ). The Inquisition was charged with trying, torturing, convicting and burning heretics, over 600 years, the Roman Catholic Church burned 5 million innocent people...

Actually yes, very similar and Christians too

extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, there is zero or no evidence for the existence of god and there is zero or no evidence for the existence of the devil. They claim the power and ability of god and the devil is boundless, if this is true then a simple test to determine existence is in order.
This test will show either the gods/devils are not as powerful as claimed or they do not exist at all, in either case they do not deserver anyone's worship.

Here is a simple god/devil test
1. God you will post on every Forum, Blog, FAQ and Yahoo Answers Category on the internet in exactly 30 seconds (GMT) after this post has been made. You will post world wide and your post will state the following:

"I am god, I exist"

A) In every Forum, Blog, FAQ and Yahoo Answers Category must have the same exact time stamp based on human time GMT.

2. Mr. Devil you will post on every Forum, Blog, FAQ and Yahoo Answers Category on the internet in exactly 30 seconds (GMT) after this post has been made. You will post world wide and your post will state the following:

"I am devil, I exist"

A) In every Forum, Blog, FAQ and Yahoo Answers Category must have the same exact time stamp based on human time GMT.

This simple test shows the devil does not exist and god does not exist. Furthermore, there is nothing that states we can not test the devil or god for that mater. The bible only states we should not test god, note the words should not.
On the other hand there is nothing written anywhere that states we should not or can not test the devil so we tested both for completeness.

Note that since god and devil or two dependent if we show one does not exist then the other does not exist.

We have shown that neither exists; there is no god and no devil ;-)
Now happier times are a head for all people

2009-11-18 19:46:17 by Christopher Christian Cage