Re: Purgatory?

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:15:59 +0000, Alan Ferris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:16:42 -0500, Joseph Geloso
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:14:39 -0500, "Cracker !  :+D"
>><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>>>I have always maintained that there is no perfect church on earth, and
>>>that included mine also.
>>
>>But now you have heard that the perfection of God's Church, insofar as
>>the correctness of all her doctrines, *does* exist on Earth. So now
>>you are under obligation to investigate.
>
>The same Church that still will not address faults within itself. 

If the members of the Priesthood and Hierachy continue to attempt to
cover up their own sins and the sins of others, that does not mean
Catholic Doctrine is by that token false. Catholic Doctrine is itself
what will condemn them when everything is finally out in the open.

> How
>is that doctrinally sound?

The sins of individuals within the Church do not invalidate the
Doctrines of the Church.