Re: Purgatory?

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:53:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (€ R.L. Measures)
wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Geloso
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:58:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (€ R.L. Measures)
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Geloso
>> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:11:55 +0000, Alan Ferris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> >On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:09:32 -0500, Joseph Geloso
>> >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>Whatever your reasons for doing so, you should seek to verify
>> >> >>everything I've said. No one ought to choose this or that religion
>> >> >>based solely on what *I* say.
>> >> >
>> >> >Whose word should they base it on?
>> >> 
>> >> People should use the mind that God gave them, and find out the truth,
>> >> in whatever ways truth opens up to them.
>> >
>> >**   The rub is that there are many humans who claim to be God's earthly
>> >representatives, yet who proffer a wide assortment of contradictory
>> >truths.
>> 
>> Which brings us back to exactly why God provided One Pope for His One
>> Church.
>
>€  In the early years, God's Holy Church provided a bishop of Rome and a
>bishop of Constantinople.

Saint Andrew was never in competition with his brother, Saint Peter,
for the Primacy. There is still a Patriarch in Constantinople, and
when God restores to His Church the unity that is her right, that
Patriarch will be Catholic, in a state of joy.