I think it is helpful to paste in here the FULL quote you are referring to when you say “apology”. Please paste in the official statement.Thanks

Infant BaptismFundamentalists often criticize the Catholic Church’s practice of baptizing infants. According to them, baptism is for adults and older children, because it is to be administered only after one has undergone a “born again” experience—that is, after one has “accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior.” At the instant of acc…[Read more]

Baptism: Immersion Only?Although Latin-rite Catholics are usually baptized by infusion (pouring), they know that immersion (dunking) and sprinkling are also valid ways to baptize. Fundamentalists, however, regard only baptism by immersion as true baptism, concluding that most Catholics are not validly baptized at all.Although the New Testament…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Sep. 01 2009,17:30)Quote You have a false premise.  You can't prove from Scripture alone that dunking is the “only” licit means of performing a valid baptism.  –CA.That is, afterall, what the word actually means.–The Greek ba′pti·sma refers to the process of immersion, including submersion and emergence.–It is derived from the ve…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Sep. 01 2009,18:22)Quote So is Jesus Christ responsible for the death of millions?  According to your logic, he must be since these people claimed to be His followers.  But again, that is ridiculous…just like your logic.I find your blindness amusing.Catholics claim to follow Jesus, therefore Jesus is responsible for the death of m…[Read more]

Quote (bodhitharta @ Sep. 01 2009,18:50)Quote (CatholicApologist @ Sep. 01 2009,17:40)bodhitharta,Hey, thanks a lot.  I really appreciate your perspective.When I get these kind of things from neo-con conservative types I want to be cautious.  Many of these people are prone to run off to war with people they don't understand.  And because they do…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Sep. 01 2009,18:52)“My view is that if Purgatory did not exist, we should have to invent it.”–Ratzinger, Same book as above.http://books.google.ca/books?i….f=falseIF…did you follow his logic in that phrase?O yeah, you learn well from your superiors. Did they teach you to pull verses out of context? Or did they do this one for you too?

Quote (david @ Sep. 01 2009,18:40)Quote Purgatory is NOT a “middle ground between heaven and hell”.  It is referred to in Scripture at the judgment seat (bema) of Christ. (2 Cor. 5:8-10)Why not call it judgement seat?Because it is what happens to SOME at the judgement seat. Not all. Did you catch that part about Gold, Silver, and precious stones?

Quote (david @ Sep. 01 2009,18:37)Quote Yet again you prove your astounding ignorance.  The “U.S. Catholic” is not official church position.After your forgetting about Augustine's Retractions, I wouldn't be too hasty in using that word “ignorance.”Quote You all still haven't been able to support your hair-brain idea called “Sola Scriptura.”I'm…[Read more]

So is Jesus Christ responsible for the death of millions? According to your logic, he must be since these people claimed to be His followers. But again, that is ridiculous…just like your logic.

Both. Son of God AND God the Son

Quote (david @ Aug. 28 2009,18:21)I think perhaps it is largely due to Galileo. “The Earth is firmly fixed; it shall not be moved.”-Psalms 104:5The Catholics believed the earth was the center of the universe.  The Bible doesn't say this.  They did.  Their tradition I guess, or maybe the pope's idea.  Not sure.Galileo argued that the earth rot…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Sep. 01 2009,11:31)Hi CA, We trust scripture and the God it reveals but you have found other fathers?Nick,You're not kidding me. You trust in yourself.

bodhitharta,Hey, thanks a lot. I really appreciate your perspective.When I get these kind of things from neo-con conservative types I want to be cautious. Many of these people are prone to run off to war with people they don't understand. And because they don't understand them, they have an easier time killing them. This is very wrong in my…[Read more]

Quote (Christian Biker @ Sep. 01 2009,11:45)Hi CA,How long does it take someone who has had no previous church affiliation to become a member of a Catholic church and what does one have to do to become a member?In Latin rite parishes you are usually encouraged to go through the RCIA program (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults). This helps a…[Read more]

Quote The Lord gave the Apostle Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven which is the gospel. Your opening statement is the key to our misunderstanding of each other.The keys of the kingdom of heaven were AN OFFICE.Did you listen to that bit about the Key of David?

Quote (Christian Biker @ Sep. 01 2009,13:15)Baptizing a baby is “meaningless”! Also; I was not aware that John was a Catholic when he baptize Jesus but if the Catholic church “started the whole “dunking” in the first place” than he must have been.Glad I could help you there.

Quote First of all just pouring water over an Infant is not being Baptized according to Scripture. And Baptizing when you are a Baby, they don't even know what it is. All our Children were Baptized that way, and I call it just sprinkling, because they get not submerged under water all the way. Also what is the sense in doing so when they are…[Read more]

Quote (Christian Biker @ Sep. 01 2009,09:16)You have mistaken the purpose of the local church! You don’t go to the local church to find God you go to the local church to serve God. Also if you are counting on this web-site to feed your Christianity, your Christianity will likely starve to death. And there are some dead men walking here! The C…[Read more]

Quote (942767 @ Sep. 01 2009,10:16)Quote (CatholicApologist @ Aug. 31 2009,20:24)Quote (david @ Aug. 31 2009,10:26)New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967, Vol. XI, p. 1034) acknowledges: “In the final analysis, the Catholic doctrine on purgatory is based on tradition, not Sacred Scripture.”“The church has relied on tradition to support a middle groun…[Read more]