The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the successor of Peter. The other Bishops across the world are the successors of the other 11 apostles. Each Bishop is in control of the priests in their territory (diocese)...they approve them for the seminary, approve them for ordination, and are in charge of them as priests. Bishops like Law in Boston moved pedo priests around instead of kicking them out, and now the Boston dioceses has been crippled by lawsuits because of his gross negligence Bishops in Louisiana, and in 99% of the world haven't done that. Here in Louisiana, a priest got caught having sex in a public bathroom with a 50 year old male, he was kicked out of the priesthood. Another was embezzling money from his parish. Kicked out of priesthood. 99% of the Bishops kick out pedo priests. It's just that 1% that makes it seem like Bishops dont (there are tens of thousands of Bishops controlling tens of thousands of diocese worldwide)
Come on, Steve. This is not true. Catholicism has added a ton of new dogma since the time of the apostles. Catholics are told to call their priests "Father". This was not done by the apostles. In fact . . . "Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven." -- Matthew 23:9The rosary and its repetitive prayers were invented in 1029AD and were copied from Pagan religions. In fact . . . "And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words." Matthew 6:7The deification of Mary is another Catholic addition to the gospels. Of the 59 total beads of the Rosary, 53 beads are "Hail Marys", but only 6 beads are "Our Father". The Rosary most often ends with a "Hail, Holy Queen" prayer to Mary, not God. Yet . . . "For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." 1 Timothy 2:5The celibacy of priests was not mandated until 1079. Yet the gospels preach that a bishop must be married and also have children. "A bishop, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?)" 1 Timothy 3:2-5There are many other examples. There is no "proof" here at all. None.
Those aren't infallible doctrines where the pope speaks "ex Cathedra" As for the Mary intersession, that's off topic...If Mary can't intercede for us, then we have no business interceding for (praying for) each other. But that's a discussion for another day I guess....better over a few cold drinks
Deification means people think she's God...like Jesus. No Catholics think that. -How about God created the earth for an infallible doctrine.
I don't know. The first papal encyclical addressing the theory of evolution, Humani Generis (1950) by Pope Pius XII, said Catholics are free to form their own opinions on evolution, but that "the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God" And Pope Benedict wrote this: "According to the widely accepted scientific account, the universe erupted 15 billion years ago in an explosion called the 'Big Bang ' and has been expanding and cooling ever since. Later there gradually emerged the conditions necessary for the formation of atoms , still later the condensation of galaxies and stars, and about 10 billion years later the formation of planets . In our own solar system and on earth (formed about 4.5 billion years ago), the conditions have been favorable to the emergence of life . While there is little consensus among scientists about how the origin of this first microscopic life is to be explained, there is general agreement among them that the first organism dwelt on this planet about 3.5–4 billion years ago. Since it has been demonstrated that all living organisms on earth are genetically related, it is virtually certain that all living organisms have descended from this first organism."
Catholics don't pray to Mary, they ask Mary to pray for us, just like I'd ask you to pray for me or vice versa
