One more thing about Fr. Steel’s conversion

Posted: June 9, 2009 by datechguy in catholic
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It’s the comment concerning doctrine:

What I became aware of was that it was almost impossible to say ‘the Church teaching is’ within the Anglican church because there are so many various opinions on matters of sacraments, liturgy, morality, scripture etc. What I did not want to experience anymore was proclaiming the teaching of the Church only to end up defending myself rather than the Anglican church defending me. This has become an ever-increasing impossibility that is no secret to the entire Anglican world. My preaching would always be seen as a matter of personal opinion rather than having the authority of the Magisterium that backs up what I teach publicly. Of course there is dissent in the Catholic Church but it is always that, dissent towards what Mother Church proclaims as authoritatively true. It is the truth of Mother Church that I embrace as my own deep personal faith. (emphasis mine)

That’s the bottom line, dissenters within the church dissent against truth. The Anglican communion and some other denominations have a real problem defining truth and remember the bottom line, the only reason to be Christian in general and Catholic in particular is because it is true..

If it’s not then we are just a lion’s club that meets on Sundays.

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