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wisdomseeker
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Posted: Fri Dec 14th, 2007 07:13 pm |
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  hi everyone! my question is: i heard from a priest at Vatican saying that a catholic church buildings is built vertical pointed to heaven and not some squared boxy shape like so many modern churches. the priest at my parish said it is not true that it does not matter what the build looks like that this idea was wrong, he also made some other odd comments. in our catechism class the name of martin luther, billy graham comes up as great men of God. is my priest being too liberal or is he being correct? tks God bless
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CajunRick
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Posted: Fri Dec 14th, 2007 10:43 pm |
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wisdomseeker wrote: hi everyone! my question is: i heard from a priest at Vatican saying that a catholic church buildings is built vertical pointed to heaven and not some squared boxy shape like so many modern churches. the priest at my parish said it is not true that it does not matter what the build looks like that this idea was wrong, he also made some other odd comments. in our catechism class the name of martin luther, billy graham comes up as great men of God. is my priest being too liberal or is he being correct? tks God bless
I've already answered this in the other thread you posted it in. You'll find my response here.
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Michelle1982
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Posted: Thu Dec 20th, 2007 12:25 pm |
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in our catechism class the name of martin luther, billy graham comes up as great men of God. is my priest being too liberal or is he being correct? tks God bless
You know what I would say is this: I don't have an opinion about Martin Luther. It was a hard time for him and all the other reformers. He should not have split the church or messed with church doctrine, but the church did have issues that needed to be dealt with. Though, I do not believe it was the will of God for the chhrch to split, God works out all things for His glory.
As to Billy Graham, he is a man of God. He might be protestant, but he has done more good for the Catholic church than any protestant that I know. Also, remember, he is an evangelist. He is not preaching so much for doctrine, but a personal relationship with Christ, which is something that both Catholics and protestants agree on. I might become a hard core Catholic, but I will always have a great respect and admiration for people like him. Also, he and others working with him have been shunned by many of the conservative Christian protestant groups because of his embracing Catholics as also brothers and sisters in Christ. I have and know many people who do not support him, which I think is soo sad!
If it were me, I would not make an issue of comments like these. What I would make an issue of and fight is if the priest said that people like Joseph Smith, mormons, hindus, muslims were men and women of God. But remember, those that still believe that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life are our brothers and sisters in Christ.
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EMarshallBuckles
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Posted: Fri Dec 21st, 2007 01:12 pm |
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Michelle, that is a very good point! You know, come to think of it, those who got the Protestant movement should NOT have gone outside the Roman Catholic Church but should have accomplished needed reforms within the church! Last night I was reading about Peter Canisius (pardon my spelling if I spelled his Latinized name incorrectly) who was involved with the counter reformation. I intend to start studying the counter reformation learning more about it. Even so, I think that you did make a very good point!
As for church buildings, while I think that any building can be turned into and used as a church buildings (I know of one independent Christian Church, in my area, which meets in a movie theater on Sundays - they even serve popcorn during fellowship times), my preference would be for preexisting buildings, adopted for use as a church(for church use only), be modified to have Christian symbolism and various other things which cause someone seeing it to feel that they are in a church and find their thoughts and feelings turned towards God. My preference, if ever charged with having a church built, would be to use one of the traditional church designs. I love the designs of Washington National Cathedral (the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul) in Washington, DC and the Shine of the Immaculate Conception next to Catholic University in Washington, DC, especially the Shrine, that church is HUGE and so AWESOME!! If I built a church, I would probably put a gargoyle of myself up on one of the sides as a rain spout, as well as one of Rick and Dave, ha, ha!  
Last edited on Fri Dec 21st, 2007 01:14 pm by EMarshallBuckles
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