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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are right on the facts as presented by the Roman church. Confession is valid when one has a contrite heart and "full purpose of amendment of life". Obviously you have a soft heart, but you do not intend to conform you life to RC teaching on this issue.

But be comforted. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. The Roman church may well be wrong on this issue. They say they are infallible on doctrine, but the rest of Christendom disagrees.  You are trusting Christ to stand in your place at judgment not only for those sins that you have carefully documented during confession, but also for errors in judgment and weakness of the flesh and will.[/quote]

Obviously you're not Catholic, if you're calling it "The Roman Church." Catholics don't call it that.  Only people dissing it  call it "the Roman Church."[/quote]

I'm obviously not Roman Catholic. But, like many Protestants, I don't think that the Roman Catholic church has a monopoly on the word "Catholic" or even on capitalizing it. I hold the standard Protestant view that all who are in Christ are in the holy Catholic church (to borrow the words of the Apostles Creed). I'm not dissing the Roman Catholic church, but I also don't grant to it the view that it is *the* Catholic church. It is *part* of the Catholic church.[/quote]

Cradle Catholic, now Lutheran, and I agree.[/quote]

That's fair, but do you really want to be associated with the Catholic brand right now? Distance and differentiation would seem to be desirable based on the last 30 years.

Except for Sister Act (and even Sister Act II). Are you betting on the success of Sister Act 3 to elevate the standing of the Catholic brand?[/quote]

What?

I worship in a Lutheran church and am a member of a Lutheran congregation.[/quote]

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