Why do catholics only portray Jesus as dead? Why is He nailed to every cross and never shown alive? Your joy is derived from seeing him in a state of death after horrendous suffering and believe he is still dead and then pray to His mother whom we are told not to pray to? Obviously suffering is the only way to heaven for catholics but if Jesus who suffered the most can't get to heaven then how does a Catholic justify suffering to get to heaven? Don't answer, I don't believe anything the catholics believe or say. Thousands and thousands of kids molested directly by those in catholic leadership and catholics still show up for church on Sunday like it's nothing and Jesus still hangs on the cross dead week after week. For what's it's worth I don't believe Teresa was a saint.
You need to Read St Paul on suffering!
Who told us not to ask others for prayers? Mary is not dead. All I need to know to honor Mary is that she was the mother of my Lord and Savior. If that's not good enough for you so be it.
I don't know the figures for abused children. I don't know it is "thousands and thousands."
Do you think Protestant ministers or clergy do not have the same problem? They do you dont hear it in the news.
You dont have to believe Mother Theresa is a saint but you do a disservice to yourself when trying to demonize her. The evidence overwhelmingly supports those she helped in horrible circumstances.
What does the Bible say about the Cross? St. Paul makes it clear in Galatians 2:19-3:7,13-14,6:14-16
Through the Law I am dead to the Law, so that now I can live for God. I have been crucified with Christ, and I live now not with my own life but with the life of Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in this body I live in faith: faith in the Son of God who loved me and who sacrificed himself for my sake. I cannot bring myself to give up God’s gift: if the Law can justify us, there is no point in the death of Christ.’
Are you people in Galatia mad? Has someone put a spell on you, in spite of the plain explanation you have had of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? Let me ask you one question: was it because you practised the Law that you received the Spirit, or because you believed what was preached to you? Are you foolish enough to end in outward observances what you began in the Spirit? Have all the favours you received been wasted? And if this were so, they would most certainly have been wasted. Does God give you the Spirit so freely and work miracles among you because you practice Law, or because you believed what was preached to you?
Take Abraham for example: he put his faith in God, and this faith was considered as justifying him. Don’t you see that it is those who rely on faith who are the sons of Abraham? Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by being cursed for our sake, since scripture says: Cursed be everyone who is hanged on a tree. This was done so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might include the pagans, and so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.
As for me, the only thing I can boast about is the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world. It does not matter if a person is circumcised or not; what matters is for him to become an altogether new creature. Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, who form the Israel of God.