Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.
I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Let Catholics build their own churches and works.