A Note on Bad Ecclesiology and Bad Eschatology

And the potential harm to faithful Roman Catholics

I’m not able to give this the attention it deserves at this time. But I compelled to say something so…

I’ve been reflecting on how bad ecclesiology and bad eschatology is keeping faithful Roman Catholics shackled to an increasingly toxic church.

Bad ecclesiology — That Matthew 16:18 grants Rome an exemption from the apostasy that has taken down and will take down many church bodies.

Bad eschatology — That Rome is somehow exempt from Jesus’ question “When the Son of Man comes will he find faith on earth?” (Luke 18:8)

Not all Roman Catholics hold these views. I especially appreciate how Fr. Donald Haggerty wrestles with Luke 18:8 at the very beginning of The Hour of Testing and goes on to address increasing unfaithfulness in the Roman Catholic Church. (I might review that provocative book after I finish it.)

But it is hard to miss that the errors I mention above are common, even prevalent among conservative Roman Catholics. And they contribute to making them so wedded to that particular church that there could be celebrations of paganism and perversion in the Vatican, and these faithful still would not even consider departing for a more faithful church.

Oh. That’s right. There are celebrations of paganism and perversion in the Vatican. Oh well.

And it’s getting worse and worse.

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At this time, I cannot do justice to the harm bad ecclesiology and bad eschatology can do and is doing. But I hope to say more in due time, which would include the scholarship of Catholics of centuries past. For it grieves me to see the spiritual abuse inflicted on faithful Roman Catholics. And it grieves me to see them continue to take the abuse because they do not take to heart enough the need to “come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” (Rev. 18:8)*

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*No, I do not think Rev. 18:8 applies only to Rome. But does it apply to Rome? I think yes.