Reply #18: Thinkers are "weeds"? [View All]

That is a pertinent statement.

You are correct in that most of the growth is coming from Protestants coming in, but most of them are only choosing to go after the most conservative interpretations, as their old denominations are not as conservative enough for them. What you have is a growth of people who thrive on following using divisive theology.

There are extremely few statements which have been declared "fallible". Remember ex cathedra has only been around since Vatican I, after the loss of the Papal States and even the Popes of the time thought it was an attack on the office.

What you consider weeds will actually be flowers of many different types being pulled out. The grass will be behind a armed fence line, to continue your metaphor. The Catholic Church was not intended to be a type of elite club where only picked perfect chosen ones would be welcomed, everyone is welcome in the Catholic Church. We are all fallible, all sinful, why do some mean inclusion and some exclusion?

Remember, this movement gained steam as Rome still has not worked through the sexual abuse scandals, and they are digging up the old controlling ways to try to compensate without truly accepting responsibility. What you will have by having blind followers is nobody question any affairs, financial or otherwise. There is some faux-utopian past which is always talked about before Vatican II, which covers a power grab on this temporal plane which should not be happening.