Nelson Donnell of West Gardiner, ME "The Catholic Church teaches that it's the only church founded by Jesus Christ for good reason - it's a historical fact."

Funny thing is, Mike fails to mention that the majority of the history books are usually influentially written from the biased facts and perspective of the conquerors, not the conquered. And those that didn't agreed with the Catholic Church's position during the Dark Ages usually ended up being burnt and destroyed, but not all of them. But I guess Mike forgot about that phase of history and the Inquisitions and Crusades of the Catholic Church.

Do a Google search on Catholic Churches Criminal History, it's repleted with criminal conduct right from it's very inception under the rule of Constantine.report abuse

RicknVA of Alexandria, VA Mike says: 'Many people reject a belief in hell, but Catholic saints who have been given revelations of hell have said that most of the people in hell didn't believe in it while they were on earth. Jesus discussed hell 13 times in the gospels.'

Why is it that only 'Catholic' saints have been given revelations of hell? And, what would you say to the 'hell' that pedophile priests have put their victims through?
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Mike Martin of Farmington, ME The Indians of Mexico strongly resisted Catholicism until the miracle of Guadalupe occurred in the 16th century. Then almost every one of the millions of indigenous Mexicans became Catholic over just a 2 or 3 year period.report abuse

Mike Martin of Farmington, ME The Catholic Church teaches that it's the only church founded by Jesus Christ for good reason - it's a historical fact. Jesus founded a church, as it says in the Bible, and the Catholic Church is the only one that can trace its existence back to that time. All other churches were founded by men or women who had their own ideas about religion. Those people were inspired by Martin Luther, who erroneously taught that the Bible could be interepreted by anyone as anyone sees fit to do so. A society which believes in anything is bound to eventually become a society which believes in nothing, which is the type of society we live in today.

It's no secret that saints are human, either. It's just that the saints have led exemplary lives of holiness, and we recognize them as having done so. Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul have certainly filled that bill.

As far as the Bible goes, we know it is the Word of God because the Catholic Church which was personally founded by Christ told us so. The writers of the New Testament were Catholic, and Catholic bishops in the late 4th and early 5th centuries got together to decide which writings were inspired by God, and assembled them into the Bible as we know it today.

Christ gave the power of binding and loosing to the leaders of his church, so that church has the authority to produce the Bible. And as far as the legitimacy of Christ, I point out once again the miracles. Thousands, possibly millions, have occurred in the last 2000 years, and they can be denied only by the hardest of hearts.report abuse