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Donald Collins' letter "Anglicans, beware!" (Oct. 29 and TribLIVE.com), which attacks Pope Benedict XVI and the Roman Catholic Church because of the recent outreach to Anglicans dissatisfied with the leadership of their church, never once makes reference to Jesus Christ. Yet Jesus Christ founded and preserves the papacy so no one who adheres to the teaching of the pope and the bishops united with him will be led astray from the truth in matters of faith and morals.
In Luke 10:16, Jesus says, "He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me."
Imagine the alternatives: A church governed by the state, which was the preference of Henry VIII and Mao Zedong; a "democratic" church governed not by the truth but by ever-changing opinion polls; or the chaos of every individual as his or her own pope, easily conflating his or her own personal whims and desires with God's will.
Of course Collins tries to smear Benedict by referring to the crimes of priests who abused altar boys. But why should the sins of a Judas lead me to reject Jesus Christ and his human representative, Benedict XVI?
Kris Sanders
Squirrel Hill
