and baptizes all people they encounter into the "priesthood of the believer". The crisis for the church lies with the Evangelical habit of distorting the truth for popularity. Most Evangelical theologians distort the Catholic Church's teaching that all people, even those who do not explicitly know Jesus, can share in the salvation won by Christ if they respond to his grace. The Catholic Church also has to suffer from the indifferent position of Christianity, which basically believes that the Catholic Church is just the same as every other religion, therefore just another path to God. Since the Catholic Church is yet another Christian church, why bother proclaiming the faith to other Protestant Christians? This opinion, although it sounds very charitable, is actually more detrimental both to the Church and to unbelievers then the fundamentalist habit of distorting the truth. The Catholic Church suffers because she is the Bride of Christ, the church that Jesus shed his Blood to purchase, and is now put on the same level with non-Christian religions, such as Islam of Hinduism. It also makes the deaths of all the saints who gave their lives to spread the Catholic Church seem like a lost cause. As I said earlier, the main crisis that the Church faces is the imaginative minds of the anti-Catholic movement. One such notable author is James McCarthy, a former Catholic and now founder of the fundamentalist organization Good News for Catholic's, Inc. In his book, The Gospel According To Rome:"Do not think that by staying in the Roman Catholic Church you can change it. Though every error cataloged in this book has been pointed out by others long ago, the Church to listen. It has never acknowledged a single doctrinal error. Indeed, it cannot, lest people realize that the Church's claim to infallibility is a charade. Far from admitting error, the Roman Catholic Church has shamelessly opposed its critics, staining its hands with their blood down thro...
