FACT:
less than 2 percent of Catholic priests were
ever even accused of sexual abuse.
Quoting: RDprofessorthanks RD,
1.5% accused.
The scandal does not change the fact Catholicism is the true faith. God wants us all to believe the same, understand, He is going to enlighten everyone personally in their NDE like life review during the Great Warning.
Ephesians 4:5
One Lord, one Truth, one Baptism.Catholicism has many virtues, ie, call to poverty, philanthropy and giving to the poor.
But, Mary worship is unbiblical.
The mass is unbiblical.
Infallibility of the pope is unbiblical.
Enforced celibacy is unbiblical.
The opulence of the Vatican is unbiblical.
etc etc etc....
Sorry to say buddy but you're misinformed. No Catholics worship Mary. Did you ever ask anyone to pray for you? It's exactly the same thing. We don't pray to Mary, we petition her. In the prayer we venerate her "full of grace... blessed art thou... holy Mary... Mother of God", and then ask her to "pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death". Nobody worships her as a goddess. It's simply not true.
Notice what I bolded.
EXACTLY. Those words are the final
words of the prayer, the Hail Mary as Ac 1533... shared.
A physician who had a near death experience, when he realized
where he was and what he was experiencing, it wasn't going
to Heaven. He prayed:
_ _ _ _ _ _""So I began to pray. Beyond reason, I started with the Father. I called Him every Name I knew -- God, Yahweh, Father. And there was no response. Yet I knew he was there. So I went on to call upon Jesus and called Him every Name I could think of -- Savior, my Jesus of Mercy, Lord, Lamb of God: I went down a litany, and He didn't respond.
"Now I was getting desperate and decided it was time to talk to the Holy Spirit, so I called to the Spirit -- and instantaneously I had an answer and it was not verbal and it was not a vision; it was a compelling inner voice or announcement, basically, to 'call Mary.'
"I hesitated. It was clear to me that Satan heard it because then there was a diatribe from him, to the effect that if I did that -- if I called on Mary -- the devil had me; if I called on her, I was a blasphemer. But while I was waiting the Spirit gave me a command. It's kind of unimaginable, the power. The only thing I can liken it to is the reference in the Bible of how in the end times in the Second Coming all knees will bend. This was the nature of the command. I didn't have a choice; I just [called on her]. And then Mary came.
"She appeared as if she was at the bedside -- across a small table from me. She put her left hand on my face and spread her fingers and they crossed over so that my eyes weren't blocked but I could see her face and attire.
"People describe her as having a crown. She had a glow around her -- I guess that was sort of a crown -- and dark eyes and she was young, beautiful, and the colors of her garments were white-blue-gray.
"Then she spoke to me. She called me by name and told me to 'go back.' She said everything would be okay. And that was the end. All I remember after that is waking up in I.C.U. to the sound of my artificial heart and the nurse asking me to prove I was conscious by squeezing his fingers."
