Irish Catholic Priest turns from Tradition to Truth
RICHARD BENNETT'S LIFE TESTIMONY
From Tradition to Truth
The Early Years
Born Irish, in a family of eight, my early childhood was fulfilled and happy. My father was a colonel in the Irish Army until he
retired when I was about nine. As a family, we loved to play, sing, and act, all within a military camp in Dublin.
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Roots of Roman Catholic Authority
Jesus promised to build His church. Did He mean the Roman Catholic church, with Peter as the first pope? Lets examine the claims.
Vatican text say others are not really churches
I refer to the article on BBC news, Vatican text angers Protestants.
It begins by saying, "Pope Benedict has approved a new text asserting that Christian denominations outside Roman Catholicism are not true Churches in the full sense of the word."
And further, concerning this document:
"Other Christian denominations, it argues, cannot be called Churches in the proper sense because they cannot trace their bishops back to Christ's original apostles."
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Apostolic succession - says who?
Once again, from the Catholic Catechism, we read:
"In order that the full and living Gospel might always be preserved in the Church the apostles left bishops as their successors. They gave them ‘their own position of teaching authority.'"35 Indeed, "the apostolic preaching, which is expressed in a special way in the inspired books, was to be preserved in a continuous line of succession until the end of time."36
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Where is the Mother Church?
In the Catechism of the Roman Catholic church on the U.S. Catholic bishop's site, it writes:
"Our holy mother, the Church, holds and teaches that God, the first principle and last end of all things, can be known with certainty from the created world by the natural light of human reason." http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect1.htm#36
Is the Roman Catholic church correct in saying that it is the mother of all believers? Could this institution based in the Vatican city in Rome truly justify such a lofty claim?
What does the Bible say?
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