(urth) resurrecting a 2002 thread that posits an alternative lineage for Sev

[Marc Aramini]

Your assessment fits my understanding of American roman Catholicism in
general (I am Catholic). The catechism has a clause that says one need
never have heard of Jesus to be saved, but that belief in Him is the path
we know to be true.

I remember kids arguing with me when I was in grade school "you worship
Mary" and I thought it asinine. Reverence and respect and asking someone in
a position of favor to intercede on your behalf is not truly worship -
though it does assume that the one you address has powers and favor beyond
yours.

On Thursday, October 9, 2014, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:

>
> On 06/10/2014 15:19, Marc Aramini wrote:
>
>>
>> Deification is a Protestant over-reaction to the great respect offered to
>> the saints and Mary as intermediaries on the behalf of humanity to an
>> infinitely incomprehensible God. Reverence and awe and relative closeness
>> to God (compared to our own existence) does not make one a literal God.
>>
>>  The Catholic Church doesn't generally fulminate about the theological
> details of the beliefs of the faithful.  The saints - and Mary too - in
> principle intercede with the Lord when prayed to, rather than answering
> prayers themselves.  But if somebody feels that they probably have
> authorisation to answer some prayers on their own, nobody is preaching
> hellfire and damnation just because they got the theology wrong.
>
> I think it's fair to say there is more of a 'community of the faithful'
> ethos in the Catholic Church than in many or most of the Protestant
> churches.  Bible reading, for example, is not discouraged but neither is it
> heavily encouraged,  There's no element of 'every man his own theologian'.
> A simple faith and a good life are more than sufficient.
>
> [By the way, it is my understanding that there are 'Catholics' of a
> slightly different colour in the US.  I'm speaking of Roman Catholicism as
> practised in Ireland, say.]
>
> - Gerry Quinn
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