1. The Catholic Church alone upholds
the canon of Holy Scripture as consisting of 73 books. The canon of both
testaments was finalized in three Catholic Church councils over 1000 years
before Martin Luther was even born. These 73 books were in the first Bible
containing a New Testament, the Latin Vulgate, by Saint Jerome. The Catholic
Church uses all 73 of these books even to today.
The reformers removed
seven of these books, reducing their number to 66. They completely ignored the
many verses in the Bible warning against adding or removing from the Word of
GOD. Deut 4:2, Deut 11:32,13:1, Psa 12:7,33:4,50:16-17,107:10-11,119:57,139-140,
Prov 5:7,30:5-6, Jer 23:36,
Gal 1:8, 1Pet 1:24-25, 2Pet 3:15-16, and of
course the verses we are all familiar with, Rev 22:18-20.
Scores of other
verses regarding traditions handed down from generation to generation, and
ignored by the reformers, can be added to this list also.
The Catholic Church stands alone in preserving the Canon of both the Old and New Testaments as defined by Councils which
were guided by the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 4:16...
2. Contraception is strictly against
the teaching of Holy Scripture.
See what happened to Onan in Gen 38:9-10.
Christ cursed the fig tree because it bore no fruit in Matt 21:19, and Mark
11:13-14.
See also Gal 5:16-21 and Rev 9:21 and 21:8.
For the most part,
all Christian religions were in agreement on this issue, then in the early
1930's, one Protestant sect broke from the ranks and declared that contraception
was morally sound. Soon the other Protestant sects
followed.
The Catholic Church stands alone in
condemning contraception as being immoral. Please read 'Humanae Vitae' on this website under the 'Contraception' caption. This
hauntingly prophetic and very beautifully written Encyclical released by Pope
Paul VI in 1968, condemns contraception and gives dire warning of the
consequences if this practice is allowed to continue. The consequences have come
true just as the Pope said they would in 1968. See paragraph 17 of this
document.
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The Catholic Church stands mostly
alone in fiercely condemning the act. In so doing, there has been much
retaliation against the Church from various groups. Disney and their
subsidiaries have released numerous anti-Catholic movies and TV shows. Many of
these depict priests and nuns as being homosexual.
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The Catholic Church in its very
outspoken condemnation of abortion is practically standing alone on this issue.
Read the Didache
2:2 elsewhere on this website as well as "Abortion, Legalized Murder".
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The Catholic Church stands alone in
the condemnation of divorce and remarriage in cases where there was a valid
marriage in the first place. See the file "Annulments", found elsewhere
on this website.
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6. Ordination of women is
anti-Biblical. There are many Bible verses contrary to this practice.
Christ
chose no woman to be an Apostle. "For the law appoints as priests MEN who are
weak..."
Heb 7:28.
There are several verses against women speaking in
Church, 1Cor 14:34-35, and
1Tim 2:11-12. See also Judges 17:10 and
18:19.
Regardless of what Scripture says, there are many non-Catholic sects
who are ordaining women as ministers. There is a female Methodist minister in
the same town as my Church. In the Anglican Church, the Bishops voted for the
ordination of women. This caused an outflow of Bishops and priests from that
Church. On November 11, 1992, Episcopal Bishops voted to ordain women and that
caused an outflow of priests from that Church also.
The Catholic Church stands alone in
refusing the ordination of women. The Catholic Church has no authority to allow
this. That authority has to come from GOD. As a result, the Catholic Church has been
chastised by feminist groups all over the world.
Galatians
4:16