Re: questionable conception

Kevin <ktn3654@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <0tvo04549m5fi50230hkmnt1g4jhbrup01@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Howard Brazee  <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:11:47 GMT, djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dorothy
>>>J Heydt) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Yeah, ever so many people (and webcomic characters) say
>>>>"immactulate conception" when they mean "virgin birth."
>>>
>>>Agreed
> 
>      Is there any specific name for the conception that came
>      nine months 
> before the Virgin Birth?  Or is that not even considered to be a
> genuine conception at all?
> 
> 
>>>>Mostly, I suppose, because they don't really care.
>>>
>>>And most Protestants think the Roman Catholic Church deifies
>>>Mary, and they believe this is wrong.
> 
>> In the first place, they're wrong; the Church doesn't defiy
>> Mary. 
> 
>      I've never heard any Protestant say that.  I have heard
>      plenty of 
> Protestants say that the Catholic Church ascribes Mary an
> excessively exalted role.  I think this is a genuine theological
> difference, and not just a case of misunderstanding the other's
> position. 
> 
> 
>> In the second place, they're right, because if the Church *did*
>> deify Mary, that would be wrong.
> 
>> Not that certain individual butter-for-brains Catholics don't
>> try on occasion.  I remember one woman at St. Mary Magdalene's
>> who used to go around trying to get people to sign a *petition*
>> to the Pope asking him to invest Mary with various titles
>> essentially proclaiming her Christ's equal.  One was
>> "Co-Redemptrix of Mankind," IIRC.  I don't think she ever got
>> any signatures.
> 
>      The drive to proclaim Mary Co-Redemptrix is still going on
>      and 
> it seems to have more than just a few sup****ters, as you can
> easily find by googling.  Various cardinals and bishops appear
> to have announced their sup****t for it.  The petition you speak
> of wound up getting several million signatures, as you can see
> in the New York Times article linked below.  If the drive does
> succeed, it's a safe bet what Protestants will think.

There's only one signature required. All others are completely 
irrelevant. The Catholic Church isn't a democracy.

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Terry Austin

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