Subject: should a catholic marraige be sanctified |
Bible Note: BradK, As me something easy like how can a Church full of sinners be a spotless bride? ;-) Or how can a bunch of bumblers like the apostles teach and spread the faith without error? I presume you believe they did do that. The following article may be more helpful than anything I could write. I have quoted its closing paragraph. http://www.catholic.com/library/Papal_Infallibility.asp "Since Christ said the gates of hell would not prevail against his Church (Matt. 16:18b), this means that his Church can never pass out of existence. But if the Church ever apostasized by teaching heresy, then it would cease to exist; because it would cease to be Jesus' Church. Thus the Church cannot teach heresy, meaning that anything it solemnly defines for the faithful to believe is true. This same reality is reflected in the Apostle Paul's statement that the Church is "the pillar and foundation of the truth" (1 Tim. 3:15). If the Church is the foundation of religious truth in this world, then it is God's own spokesman. As Christ told his disciples: "He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me" (Luke 10:16)." Emmaus |