The broader question is

What the heck is going on in Christ's True Church?

a lot of hideous evil, that's what

But Jesus DID tell us that few believers (not pagans, but BELIEVERS) would make it to Heaven... He even said that those who do great deeds in His name would be rejected.. I believe that is either Mt 7:21 or thereabouts or (and/or) Lk 13:24 and thereabouts..

He spoke of building your house on sand.. sand being: the ways of the world, the flesh and the devil, all of which dominate society but then, it has always been that way.. we just forget bc we didn't live in those old days which we always tend think of as being so mcuh better, more moral, etc.. Well, it IS true that the 50s in the USA were far more moral and wholesome than 2000s but human nature has always been sinful and God rejecting

In any case, people who reject the Church just bc most of its members are egregious sinners... well, I find that short-sighted, even though I can totally understand.. I have often felt very rejecting of the Church msyelf, for same reasons listed by OP

But Jesus said that he would not.. promised that He would not abandon us, would never "forsake" us.. and by gosh, that means NEVER (Mt 28:20)

His Presence is still in His Church (although of course, He is free to leave a given Church if...)

You can't abandon Jesus and HIS Church just because members therein are sinners.. In that case, you would be Church-less and Jesus spoke of the importance of the Church.. Mt 16:18.. Then we have our personal experiences that also testify to the efficacy of the Church... I can say for myself that i NEED.. don't just want but NEED that Real Presence.. and so I say that all humans need "it' also... (God is no respecter of persons, as it says somewhere in the Word)

thank you for this, and I will now go to that site...

Yes, believers need to pray much. It is a gift from the Lord to have the gift of faith, and we need to use it more strongly.

Prayers on the part of many will begin to change the scene going on in the church now. Our Blessed Mother always asks us to pray during her apparitions. As we become holier the Light of Christ will cause the darkness to recede.

I am so happy to hear that. Thanks be to God!

The TL:DR version - yet another individual with a keyboard and a modem who forgot to take out the beam before pointing out the mote.

ETA - calling the likes of Steve Ray and Fr. Longernecker theologically shallow [my summarizations, not a direct quote] is not the way to win friends and influence people in this neck of the woods.

That's a pretty astonishing piece! I guess, as Mrs. Timmy notes, the "speck/plank" thing applies only in limited circumstances. Apart from that, there's some alarming bad thinking. For example:


Yes, it's hard to imagine how anyone could reasonably come to that conclusion, given all that we've learned about Pope Francis and his henchmen bishops actively participating in either homosexual abuse or else covering up for it.


They've publicly rejected him? Really? Where?

It's hard to know where to start with the unspeakably grotesque accusations that these converts never really converted. Really? This author is capable of making such judgments?

This is how Ed Peters once began one of his blog posts. I think the same applies to the above linked page as well.

When it comes to Catholic journalism, I find this to be a handy mnemonic: “Reporter = Distorter”

There is the good NCR (Register) and the bad NCR (Distorter).

Yes!

that was an interesting read

The thing that continues to disturb me, though, is that the pope really is teaching... un-Catholic stuff

I mean, if you are divorced and remarried with no annulment, you cannot receive Communiion. You are in mortal sin: adultery. You are married to someone e lse and having sex with someone you're not married to. But the pope says that is no big deal.

I recall a saint who wrote about how she used to see Jesus, at Communion, and how reluctantly he entered the mouths of certain people who were in sin. Yes, it sounds out there but this is supposed to have been verified somehow.. and we dont have to beleive every relevation by the saints but in any case.. the point is t hat it is not hard to belive that the Eucharist which is Jesus himself, should not be ingested by someone in mortal sin. Didn't that used to be, like, the first tenet of Catholicism?

Who are you to judge whether or not a divorced and remarried person with no annulment is "in mortal sin"? You don't know and understand the circumstances of every divorced and remarried person.

Pope Francis never said "no big deal".

I see, Jack3, so you would rather choose your own interpretation or somebody on the Internet's interpretation instead of the Pope's interpretation. If I were to do the same about some other issue, what would you say?

That is not what I found disturbing, but rather our Blessed Mother telling us that She alone is able to save us from the calamities that approach, and that if we put our confidence in her we will be saved.

That canon 915 is not about subjective guilt is taught by the very Pope who approved the code of canon law. Now, I ask you to tell me where the current Pope gave a contradictory interpretation of can. 915.

PS You have already received responses on Papal authority and assent. You should read and understand them. You are asking again what has been answered already.

It is not just a beam/plank but an entire forest you have in your eye if you think a person has never repented just because you read a sentence in their Wikipedia pages.

The important point she misses is that most of these blogger-converts did try to see the Pope in the best light and gave him the benefit of doubt as long as it was logically possible.