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Kevin Grierson writeth:
> As for the term "Catholic" by itself being "undefensable", I'd have to
> beg to differ. The vast majority of people entering a church in the
> United States (or, for that matter, in most of the rest of the world)
> that called itself "Catholic" would assume that they were, in fact,
> entering a Roman Catholic church, regardless of what other meanings the
> word "catholic" may have in other contexts, particularly if the priests
> wore vestments and followed the order of the mass.
Yabbut, the Uniate Catholic Church would disagree with you fairly vehemently, as would in a milder way part of the smells'n'bells current of the Anglicans over here in Anglia...
contd. alt.theology.nitpick ... Received on Wed Oct 01 2003 - 20:15:10 GMT
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