Finding solace in the Catholic Church

Dear Editor,

Regarding the Church of England’s decision to press ahead with women bishops:
Radical Anglicans who support women bishops and homosexuality misinterpret the bible and are guided by a false sense of freedom. They seek not God but their own selfish desires of power and lust.

Freedom does not rest in one’s ability to do as one pleases. “Ye shall be as gods.” This promise is quite clearly behind modernity’s radical demand for freedom.

Such anarchical freedom does not redeem, but makes man a miscarried creature, a pointless being. Those who live like this very soon clash with others who want to live the same way.

The inevitable consequence of this selfish concept of freedom is violence and the mutual destruction of freedom and life. This is the direction in which the world-wide Anglican communion is now headed.

Traditionalist should take heart. They are always welcome back to the fullness of truth that resides – with all it’s pristine beauty and splendour – inside the Catholic Church.

Guided by the unshakable rock of Peter the Pope, the Catholic Church is the only church today that can be traced directly back to Christ, The Messianic King, whose coming was foretold in Jewish Scripture.

All other Christian denominations have arbitrarily chosen to sever themselves from Catholic belief. I encourage traditionalists tossed about by the waves of false doctrines to climb aboard the barque of Peter for it will be their only safe haven in these troubling times.

Paul Kokoski
Ontario, Canada

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