I'll continue where I left off so long ago, with ''Questions Asked By Protestants,'' ...so, please read my original introduction:
Furstentum Liechtenstein wrote:Under a section of Cabinet of Catholic Information entitled ''Questions Asked By Protestants,'' I thought the following may interest you. Answers were by the Rev. M. Philipps, Rector of Saint Joseph's Church, Buffalo, N.Y. The style is conversational and is as follows: a Protestant asks a question in italics and the answer follows:
Are Catholics forbidden to read the Bible?
The Catholic Church forbids to read those Bibles that contain errors and she forbids it to such people to whom the reading would be dangerous. Experience teaches that injudicious reading of the Bible misled and perverted many. Saint Peter had the same experience in his days. See 2 Peter 3:16.
Do Catholics encourage the reading of the Bible?
Catholic priests are bound to read daily a portion of it; in convents the Bible is read in public, every Sunday and holiday in church a part of the Bible is read to the people, in Catholic schools children are daily to learn and narrate the essence of certain chapters of the Bible history, and in every Catholic house is found either an extract of the Bible or the Bible itself, or a prayer book taken from the Bible.
Are the teachings of the Catholic Church found in the Bible?
Nearly all the truths of the Catholic Church are found in the Bible. Some are founded on divine tradition, which are truths revealed by God to man but not contained in the Bible.
Is not everyone allowed to put his own private interpretation on the Bible?
No, this is a false principle, and this principle has given us more than two hundred different, conflicting Christian sects, all claiming to be the religion of Jesus Christ.* The true meaning of the Bible must be given by the living voice of the Catholic Church, who received the authority to explain it. as Christ said, ''Going, therefore,teach ye all nations...teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.'' Matthew 28:18.
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That's it for this evening. If any among you have a peculiar ''Question Asked By Protestants'' you'd like
The Cabinet to answer, ask it and I'll look it up.
FL
*Don't forget that
The Cabinet was compiled in 1903. The 200 sects in 1903 have mushroomed considerably since then.
Hold everything lightly. If you don't, it will hurt when God pries your fingers loose as He takes it from you. -Corrie Ten Boom
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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