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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The men of the Church are not my faith. My faith is in my heart, how I live my life, how I interact with God, how I pray to Mary, how how I treat others and how I raise my children. You can't take that from me, nor can a priest or even the Pope. If every priest is gone I will still be a proud and loving Catholic. "

Maybe I should start a spinoff thread, but if you take the heirarchy of the Church away, what's still Catholic about it? Not asking as a way to be critical, but I thought priests as having a special intercession between the laity and God were actually a key part of Catholicism? And that the ability to have a direct relationship with God was actually a big theological reason for the Reformation? If there's no priests, who administers the sacraments that define Catholicism? [/quote]

You are correct. The Catholic Church set it up from the beginning for the laity to need the clergy to be an observant catholic and ultimately to get into heaven 
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