Comments for Why Catholics Are Right at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:50:14 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-17225 You're wrong!!! Jesus never said he was the pope!!! Therefore Catholicism is wrong!! - F Sat, 18 May 2013 20:34:57 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-16367 The Catholic church put the bible together. in terms of new and old testament as we know it today. The bible is a Catholic book. She would never put something in scripture that disagrees with her. This is a historic fact! - joe castillo Mon, 25 Mar 2013 06:24:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-16251 The catholic church needs to stop making up their own beliefs, they use the Bible as a toy in their little game. They are some of the best wolves in sheeps clothing. People need to wake up,The pope has no say so or authority over the Bible. Praying to the virgin mary and all their other false gods, makes me sick. Its sad. I pray for all of them to come to the light, but I realize there is no hope for most of them. They are pure satanic evil. - TRENT LANGE Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:21:22 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-7654 Thanks for this piece. Its so true what you write. I am a convert from Lutheran Christianity, and I found that Catholicism is the only truly credible Church today, it has the continuity both in moral -and faith teaching that Jesus Christ promised in his words to Peter. I never found such coherency and logic anywhere else, and certainly not in agonosticism and atheism, which is a very dangerous ism indeed. Catholic-bashing is the most politically correct bigotry of all today. - Ina Bach Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:19:33 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-7281 i'm a big fan of Michael Coren, we would agree on many issues but in this case he is wrong imo.i was born and raised roman catholic, one day i realized --- although i considered myself a good "catholic" i was a lousy Christian. i'm not saying somebody can't be a good "catholic" and a good Christian but it wasn't working for me. the more i studied the bible and prayed the more questions i had about the rcc. why did it appear to me the rcc changed the ten commandments and was breaking the first four commandments. why when i compared how the apostles acted in the bible it was nothing like the church leaders of the day were acting. and many more issues. when i discussed these issues most people were very nice but it always boiled down to we are right and you are wrong because only the rcc can interpret the bible,papal infallibility in matters of faith and because of church tradition. so the deck is kind of stacked. then one person said if you don't believe all the official teachings of the rcc you aren't a roman catholic you are a heretic. it was like a weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. i left the rcc and feel closer to God and have become a much better Christian. imo the rcc went off course once the gentiles took over and the spirits of paganism and anti-semitism crept into the church. they really screwed things up in the 4th century when they got in bed with the roman empire. may the peace of Jesus Christ be with you all. God bless. - paul v Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:17:46 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-6877 When I converted to Catholicism about 15 years ago, it perplexed my secular friends and horrified all non-Catholic Christ believers. They said do anything but Join the Catholic Church and threw out some whore of Babylon stuff. Then I read St. john Bosco's Dream of the Two Pillar, and it all made sense. I was on that ship headed for the Eucharist and Mary, constantly under attack. Jesus prayed, not that we should be taken our of the world or that we should not suffer but, that we should be one. It's a great scandal that among Christ professing people there is such uncharitable behavior. - Tim Sat, 21 May 2011 12:41:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-6873 I loved the closing line: "Please think." And I love all the good, humanitarian acts of the Church and its related organizations all over the world. In response to the title of the book, I believe there is a lot of "right" in many churches. Thus, more than one religion can be "right." While I am closely associated with certain Catholic organizations, I am not a Catholic. Nevertheless, the title of the book does not disturb or offend me in any way. - Robert Hunter Fri, 20 May 2011 21:39:55 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-6865 I applaud the forthrightness of Mr. Coren (and other Catholics) when stating that the Catholic Church is the "right way." I would anticipate that it implies there is no salvation in any other Church, person, etc., as stated in CCC n. 874, as well in Trent decrees. Therefore, make the "truth" so sacrosanct that you shout it from the housetops. Why is ecumenism a major cover for your truth? I, a former RC, look at (with humility and respect) Catholicism as a sponge that absorbs all within its sphere in the name of being One and yet find that the sponge is never squeezed dry. My word picture is meant to reflect a history of acceptance of most any group (pagan, Protestant, animists, and the lists is ever expanding) to bring these souls into the fold (via baptism). But some customs are allowed to still be part of these converts belief system though they are most probably cultural issues rather than theological. Your decree to absolute justification must be the summun bonum and no wavering allowed. My friends, do not make yourselves into victims and hide behind so called "hate speech" because a rebuttal is offered with civility, but rather stay on the offense (as you are now doing especially in the blogger world). Few can rival the convoluted arguments about eternal hope you have claimed but people speak the truth with their wallets and their feet -- If Catholicism is right, why such a diminishing of cradle Catholics for the last 5 decades (I do not refer to any scandals)? My Catholic education was exceptional, the clergy were honorable, the church was beautiful, but the underlying reality is that way too many only held to the church because they had to in order to save face with family, friends, business, or fear. How fearful is it to fall into the hands of the living God (Hebrews 10:31). May we all keep that in the forefront of our thinking as Mr. Coren states: I am often driven to say to the mass of uninformed critics: think and agree, think and disagree, think whatever you like. But in the name of God and the Church He left us, please think! - Lagniappe Fri, 20 May 2011 11:18:47 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-6861 That someone professing a certain belief would write a book defending his position is an act so reasonable and unexceptional that there is no place for it in our unsane world. - Russell Fri, 20 May 2011 06:36:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-6858 There is nothing wrong or "prideful" at all for standing up for one's beliefs, and the Catholic Church has much to commend it. Too many critics recite hackneyed claims or offer "perverse caraciature[s]" without even attempting to understand the reality of church practice and doctrine. But I take issue with, "All this makes the Church unique in the twenty-first century as a victim institution." Are you kidding? Try being a Mormon sometime and tell me how that goes. - LMA Fri, 20 May 2011 05:42:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-6850 Somewhere Belloc dismissed a critic as talking "nonsense on such a scale that it's becoming difficult to deal with." These are the critics of the Church which Mr Coren must contend with. - Dennis Larkin Thu, 19 May 2011 11:33:26 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/why-catholics-are-right.html#comment-6849 Welcome to the TCT Mr. Coren! I enjoyed the piece, and look forward to reading your book. It's sad to say it, but books like this (dealing with anti-catholicism) are needed now more than ever. Im glad there are voices like yours out there speaking the truth and fighting the good fight! - Aeneas Thu, 19 May 2011 09:26:17 +0100