how come you picked that one?

@@MikeHunt-fo3ow To every religious soul out there: BIBLE (KJV) John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Look into orthodoxy it is the original church

​@@Billshurwin the original church keeps the seventh-day Sabbath. It keeps all of God's ten commandments. When Constantine became emperor of Rome he changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. Catholics made up a bunch of reasons afterwards to defend why they were breaking God's law. Including that the Sabbath is "Jewish law". I don't know what "misconceptions" you had about Catholics but America was built on religious freedom. In other words it was built on protestantism because protestants had to flee Europe because the Roman Catholic Church was executing them for herecy. The Roman Catholic Church killed approximately 50 million people using the French and completely eradicated 3 kingdoms. Think of 3 different countries.

So-called "anti-catholic" is not a bad thing to be as a matter of fact as believers, we are called to identify, call out and defend against false doctrines and blasphemy, the Apostle Paul laid it out very clearly, this is part of the Christian walk - and intra-church accountability are precisely why we have the Epistles in the first place. Catholicism is a fraud, Jesus is coming back in part to expose and destroy it, it's roughly about a third of the entire content of the book of Revelation is exposing what is ultimately going to happen to the papal 'authority' and the system of Roman Catholicism.

I'm with you, brother! This series is what brought me back to the Church and having it continue is an answer to my prayers! Alleluia, praise be to God

Look at Fr Mike Schmidts` homily for this Sunday`s Mass. It is important my brother in Christ. God bless you and keep you. Through the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the Most Holy Name of our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The New Moses, and New King David. Amen.

I like Church History too. The best book I found was Helen Ellerbe's "The Dark Side of Christianity". I wasn't surprised by any of it.

@@aleccullen2696 The Church is made of sinners, it is not unexpected that there is sin. Its endurance in spite of forces within and without is merely another line of evidence to this project`s Divine origin. You can dismiss, discount, or explain away the evidence as any evidence can be by the deternined opposer, but until the Church does not stand, it is valid to say that She has survived two millenia and the rise and fall of empires, cultures, and ages. And if one is going for worship of God in general, this pedigree continues for at least two millenia more.

​@@LostArchivist The Roman Catholic Church has not survived for two millennia. Many will perish for lack of knowledge.

Roman catholic history is filled with murders, lies and debauchery

Catholicism or Roman Catholicism?

@@timothyreilly8394 Its the name of the series that this priest has. But to answer your question: Roman Catholicism

God bless you! Welcome to the family 🙂

Welcome Home. When is your baptism? Easter?

Take a Marian name 😁

SAME!

Just sent an email to my local cathedral asking to be baptized. Wish me luck

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With all due respect, what is a Hebrew Catholic ?

@abrahamtoulabou basically, it's Jews or people of Jewish descent who are now Catholics.

@YAJUN YUAN heck no.

I second your comment. So many people don’t know about us!

I just came across a channel called the Jewish Catholic.

What Christian from the list of Christians that assembled the New Testament together would you not have a problem teaching your Sunday School class?

Protestants do not seek the Truth!!! And they say to believe the Bible...1 Timothy 3:15!!

@@codysmith7038 Catholics do not have Sunday school!!! Nor do they take Bibles to Church with them, guess why?

@@dvdortiz9031 We’re not banned from bringing Bibles to Mass 😭 I bring mine nearly every Sunday. Also, the reading of scripture is a huge part of Mass

@@dvdortiz9031 oh idk maybe because we listen to the Bible every Sunday? People are free to come with their own bibles, but our tradition comes from LISTENING to the Gospel, not reading it. What do you think we do? Scratch our heads? 😂

God is trying to show you something!!

Same here!

I think there's a need for us to know more about church's history. I too have been researching this topic for the last week so this was great to find.

@@ericknovamx read on Pius IX, Leo XIII, Benedict XVI, Pius X and Pius XI, the 5 excellent Popes who died hostages in Vatican 1870-1929!!! I bet you do not know anything about it!!!

​@@dvdortiz9031 I'll just read the King James Bible, thank you!

I did cry. Such drivel.

Every day in every catholic temple we proclaim the same readings, same Spirit, same Eucharist and same homily!!! Cathilic means universal...if you go to any catholic mass in any language, you can follow the mass even the read Scriptures and communion!!!

@@dvdortiz9031 You are absolutely right! One church, one faith, one tradition, one goal. The Church is one and the same all around the world. However, I think is proper to also make notice that the Church allows for some local traditions too [with proper permission, obviously]. This means that certain places can have a particular celebration on some particular day or period that may not be found or practiced in some other places. A common example would be if there is an special devotion for a saint in one locality, due to him being an important part of its history or a temple being dedicated to him or something like that, then they may celebrate that saint's particular mass on his day while others wouldn't [and rather follow the ordinary of mass]. Same goes for some rites, per example in some Eastern Catholic churches that are, technically speaking, orthodox in rite but are in communion with the Pope and the Vatican, those may practice them rites in slightly different ways, like infant baptism, where in the roman rite the priest pours water three times on the head of the infant [usually with a shell], while in some of those other rites they may quickly submerge the infant fully in water. Stuff like that, but the Church allows it for in its divine wisdom it understand the necessity for local traditions too. Other than that, we are all the exact same and profess the exact same dogmas and doctrines, as you well said. Universal, indeed!

​@@dvdortiz9031 that not what "Catholic" refers to by the definition of Universal.

@@GranMaese Don’t forget that there are also different languages.

Yeah, it’s a fascinating topic!

God bless you ✝️

A church so filled with error that they elevate Mary to the almost the status of God.

@@willp.8120okay protestant chill out

😮🎉❤

Clergy stay strong 😮❤

​@@willp.8120 Not almost. Do. Ever hear of Fatima. According to them, She who is without sin intercedes. She in partnership with Jesus interceding for us, to God as a tag team with Jesus? Not my words or faith.

I support him

You idolize your church!

And i guess you're cool with worshiping mary. PS not in the Bible.

@@ashbyt1 It is amazing that despite 1,7B people saying that they do not worship Mary but venerate her, protestant still cannot understand it. I mean I don't really expect protestant to be logical when you are either beliving in predestination, which is nonsense or follow Sola Scruptura which is unbiblical in itself. Etc. Anyway, your heart is closed, so I won't try to convince you. Facts are that Catholics do not worship Mary, but venerate her as she was mother of Jesus. No1 calls her godess or something. That is why it isn't idolatry - as some protestant say, that are unable to read. Idolatry is a sin of worshiping other gods. Mary is not worshipped and she is not consider a god. Call it praising or venerating. I know you will keep denying the truth because protestantism has it's foundation on strawmening other religions but you have a free will to do as you please. So have a nice day mate.

@@P.H.226 well said! 👍🏽🙂 plus, who loved our Blessed Mother more than anyone else? Our precious Jesus, and He wants us to listen to her ❤️❤️✝️🙏🏻. Bless those unbelievers who carry anger

​​@@P.H.226lad, there's a reason Protestantism shattered into 40,000 pieces. It's built on sand. The Bible changes meaning depending on what way a pastor interpreted it 1,600+ after the early church fathers.

I'm gonna pray they don't fall for this deception.

Find something to do like a job or a hobby, Timothy. And how do you know that your denomination, out of how many hundreds or more there are, isn't the result of a deception?

@@timothyreilly8394 I see you again in this comment section. Who hurt you dear Protestant?

Shakespeare

@@gypsydonovan thank you!

There is no growth in faith. You either have it or you don't.

But bullshit mostly.

Saints Cyril and Methodius, missionary catholic monks to the Slavic people!!!

Saint Catherine monastery, At the foothill of mount Sinai

It seems that there is debate about this. If you search "official religion of Rome" into Google, the first thing that comes up is an article from PBS saying Constantine did this in 325, followed by a few others corroborating this. I was taught this in my church history class, but other sites mention Theodosius. I'm guessing there were similar decrees in each time, the second one taking root.

I think Theodosius must have made Christianity the official religion. Constantine being a politician may not have made such a sweeping change even before the majority of the population had converted to Christianity. Some of the monuments constructed during the early phase of his reign had depicted the Roman gods. BTW, Constantine himself is supposed to have been baptised just before his death.

Constantine made it legal

The word Catholic is derived from the Greek adjective, katholikos, meaning "universal," and from the adverbial phrase, kath' holou, meaning "on the whole." The first use of the term "Catholic Church" (literally meaning "universal church") was by the church father Saint Ignatius of Antioch in his Letter to the Smyrnaeans (c. 110 AD). Seeing the church was spreading in multiple nations He termed it Catholic-universal-church. The true church founded by Jesus Christ have Bishops and Deacons. Philippians 1:1 KJV Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the BISHOPS and DEACONS.