All Roads Lead to Rome...?

[Soulfyre]

Perhaps the single most significant entity which kept Western thought and civilization alive during the "Dark" Ages was the Roman Catholic church, which stepped into the vacuum left by the fall of the Roman Empire, and wass responsible for cohesion within Europe. It was also responsible for early missions to other peoples.

Learn more about the church of St. Peter, the cradle of Western Christianity.

I am seeking an "evangelical" Roman Catholic to moderate this area. Watch for details!

God bless and keep you,

Matthew (soulfyre)

[Soulfyre]

I recently stumbled across a website entitled Godspy. The answer to "What We Believe" states simply,
"We've created Godspy because we believe that Catholic faith is beautiful and mysterious, often exhilarating, and sometimes infuriating.

We believe that the person of Jesus Christ is the answer to the deepest desires of the human heart, and that the Catholic Church is his mystical body. And that we Catholics, despite our best intentions, do a good job of obscuring that fact.

We believe that the Church is not a lifeboat off a shipwrecked world, but that it exists "for the life of the world" [John 6:51] - our world. And because this world matters so much to the Church, Catholics need to do more to engage modern culture, and the people who shape it.

When asked why he became a Catholic, the novelist Walker Percy answered, "What else is there?" We feel the same way. But we know this answer seems absurd to many people.

It seems absurd to those who have been hurt by representatives of the Church. It seems absurd to those who only know the Church from newspaper headlines when things go wrong, or from biased, outdated history books. And it seems absurd to those puzzled by the Church's teachings, or turned off by half-hearted worship and preaching. These people need to know and experience the invisible reality that is the real Church, the Church of Jesus Christ, who is "the answer to the question that is Man." But how will that happen, unless committed Catholics reach out directly to them?"

This website will provide a good look into contemporary Roman Catholicism for the interested.

God bless you and yours always,

Matthew (soulfyre)

[paxJohn]

From where I stand, it looks more like all the occidental roads lead from Rome rather than to it.

Pax,
John

[Soulfyre]

PaxJohn said:

From where I stand, it looks more like all the occidental roads lead from Rome rather than to it.

Pax,
John

Now what would make me think that you are not Roman Catholic?

Of course, I tend to agree with you (as would rgrove, I believe...).

Matthew (soulfyre)

[rgrove]

Soulfyre said:

Now what would make me think that you are not Roman Catholic?

Of course, I tend to agree with you (as would rgrove, I believe...).

Considering how you found me I shouldn't expect too much surprise?