Has the Church a Visible Head on Earth.

columba wrote:

How can there be any meaningful discission about anything let alone justification without first clearing up the mess of them both reading from two different bibles? but I suppose the recent, new "Catholic" translations (and their accompanying commentaries) has gone a long way in solving that problem. All that remains is for the Protestants to replace their 7 deleted books or, for the next "catholic" translation to delete them as well. It's a long road, but we just might get there if we keep compromising.

And this from the person who provides the same de facto Protestant interpretation of justification to the saints of the old dispensation who, allegedly, were NOT internally regenerated in sanctifying grace and infused with supernatural charity; no, the justice of Christ was imputed to them for the remission of sins “to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them”.

And if columba objects by saying the grace of sanctification and supernatural charity would one day inhere in the saints after the Ascension, he is still anathematized by Trent for heresy.

Protestants do not have to recognize the authentic Greek Septuagint as we do (they follow the official canon of Judaism) to understand true justification, and their falling into error on this doctrine has nothing to do with not maintaining the deuterocanonical books of the OT (which were at one time placed in a separate section of their Bible called the Apocrypha).

And how many Catholics fall into the error of believing that initial justification is wrought by faith and works?

The Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox New Testaments are identical.