mark4IHM Posted July 11, 2003 Posted July 11, 2003 Ghandi when asked why he adamantly rejected notions of his conversion to Christianity -> "Oh, I don't reject your Christ. I love your Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ." IMHO, that's a crock. By that logic no one would convert to the true faith because of Judas Iscariot. If someone really loves Christ, they should demonstrate it by uniting with Christ's Church, outside of which there is no salvation. Ghandi was talking out of both sides of his mouth. I also disagree with the idea of a common martyrology.
Anna Posted July 11, 2003 Posted July 11, 2003 A few years ago, I had the opportunity to visit with an old Catholic school chum of mine. He no longer practiced the Faith, or any other faith. As he put it, "I don't go to Church because the people in Church are hypocrites." Gee, I replied, "better stay outta the grocery store, and bars...There's hypocrites there, too!"
Donna Posted July 12, 2003 Posted July 12, 2003 (edited) Good one, Anna! Yes, Don John, it is offensive. To say so (and mean so) is not dissing the person of Ghandi nor anyone else. To be a martyr of the Catholic Church, one needs be Catholic. P.S. Mark is on the money: the fact of Judas or any othergreater/lesser sinners (ie, all of us) being in the Church. Edited July 12, 2003 by Donna
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