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Sale of Indulgences main one, may have been resolved in church council or debate, were it not for the invention of the printing press.
The new testament of the bible in Christianity is not relevant, for it has been corrupted and changed in so many ways; it just now has many contradictions.
While there have been a number of truly bad popes who were vile and disgusting, none of them would be classified as being heretics. None of the bad popes ever taught anything contrary to the doctrines of the Catholic Church.
.Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church was established by Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, who appointed the apostles as its first Bishops, and put St. Peter at its head as His first Vicar on Earth. Then He send the Holy Spirit after His Ascension to guide the Church until the end of the world, and guaranteed that it would never fall into error. As the Church has been set up by God and is guaranteed by God to teach His doctrines, it must reject all heresy and error, it has no choice. As the "protestant doctrines" were all protests against the doctrines taught by Our Blessed Lord and the Holy Spirit, the Church could do nothing else but reject them.
Please note that the question has been changed to "home of the Catholic Church" as there is no "Roman Catholic Church. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is rarely used by the Catholic Church. . As has been said many times - Heaven. But, while on this earth The Church has its home in Rome where St. Peter's successor resides.
Have you ever been to a church? Precisely that: to held mass and other religion-based activities, such as weddings, baptisms and funerals.
Yes, and there have been churchs for about 2,000 years. They will probably be around for as long as there are human beings who meet to worship Jesus Christ there.
The Catholic Church has never held any doctrines or entertained any serious theological discussions as to whether anyone from any race is bereft of an immortal soul. It has always been the Church's mandate to reach all peoples, regardless of race. The Catholic Church has been active among dark-skinned races since the beginning of the Church as is easily evinced by the Coptic and Ethiopian rites of Africa.
Yes. Anyone who feels drawn to the Catholic Church is invited to study its doctrines and can receive baptism and the other sacraments. Christians who have already been baptized and who, after studying Catholic doctrine, desire to become a part of the Church do not receive a second baptism ("we believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sin" - Credo), but are welcomed into the Church in a special ceremony called the Rite of Christian Initiation of an Adult, or RCIA.
No, the Catholic Church determined the New Testament canon in the fourth century, and has zealously guarded it ever since. It is through the watchfulness of the Catholic church - and no one else, that we have the New Testament today, as determined by the Holy Spirit. It has never been changed.
The "vernacular" means the common language of the country. The Catholic Mass, until Vatican II, was celebrated in Latin, then it changed to the vernacular (in the USA, English). Protestant services have always been in the vernacular.
the constitution has been changed 10 times.