metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
False as the Church does not teach that one has to take the sacraments in order to be saved. Children and those outside the Church may be saved, according to Church teachings, without taking one single Catholic sacrament.According to the RCC Jesus Christ is not enough for salvation and justification, the sacraments are necessary among other things.
That's you and them back then, but the Church of today strongly encourages Bible reading and studies.our family never read the Bible, none of my Catholic friends did, my Catholic relatives to this day do not, so I think it is reasonable to say most Catholics don't read the scriptures.
When people leave the Church with an ax to grind, all too often their judgment can be clouded.Do you think former priests and nuns misportray Catholicism when they reveal differences they know and understand between the teachings and requirements of the Catholic Church and the message of salvation through Christ in the Bible?
I read one of the books like those back in the mid-60's, and even as a young adult I believed I was likely being taken "for a ride" by the author. Later, after finding out how many times I was being lied to, I left that fundamentalist Protestant church in disgust. In my undergrad years I took two Catholic theology courses because I was dating a Catholic woman and was curious about what the Church actually teaches, however I didn't convert until a decade later.
Anyhow, I've done the homework on this for a great many years, including eventually teaching a comparative religions course, and all too much of what's posted about Catholicism is simply garbage and provably wrong.