Do you think the Roman Catholic Church is hiding truths?

I agree with you, there are some secrets that they are hiding. In my opinion there are biblical verses that they are not paying attention to. I am not a Catholic and I see some wrong teachnings there.

I certainly do! The Roman Catholic Church has had a power obsession for decades. Part of their biggest tool has been holding secrecy over many truths that would relinquish that power from their grip. They are the corporation of religion, making sure they keep their demand on high for their supply. I know this is not an example of their secrecies, but this does show how they manipulate in order to hold power. The delusion the church pushes that one must confess to their priests in efforts of receiving forgiveness. That there is a HUGE bluff on their parts and is unfounded. Yet thousands for Catholics confess on a regular base and are sure to leave a nice donation as well. I do think times are changing and some of those secrets they hold so dearly onto, are seeping from their grasp and making their way into the public. I also think the Church is losing more and more power each year.

I do respect everybody's faith, but I can't resist agreeing with you that the Catholic Church is too secretive, from the very beginning it was based on mysteries. Please don't mind, if I am wrog please correct me, it started with the mystery of Crucifixion of Jesus, while it was not a mystery at all, then they based atonement, ascension, sonship and divinity on it, a heap of mysteries over mysteries, which the followers with any common sense could never understand .The result was that the followers of Catholic Religion became having a Blind Faith, while the faith is strong only if it is research oriented having no secrets and no mystereis.This is what I believe, others have every right to disagree or agree with me. Thanks

Yes, Roman Catholic church hides many facts from the people and the people in that community suffer they are well aware of all the biblical truth but don't tell it to the the people hence the people keep doing what is not correct according to the bible anyway god will not judge the people he will judge the priests and teachers who do this.

another thing, have you seen the news that the vaticans built a huge telescope in the USA? strange isn't it?

i think so.. they have so many ancient books in their private library.

I read once about a letter that was written by a cardinal to the new pope in 16th century. The cardinal advised him not to let the ordinary people read the Bible. Why? Because it would reveal that the Catholic church often did not follow the teachings of the Holy Bible and even more often directly did the opposite. False religions have caused lots of trouble for people during thousands of years and according to the Bible it will soon be taken away by God Almighty.

The Roman Catholic Church follow the Catechism which embodies their doctrines or teachings. They teach Catechism which is open to all and in fact it is here in the internet. And thus, in this sense, they do not hide secrets. Christianity follows the Christian religion the doctrines or teachings of which are embodied in the Holy Bible. I am a Christian who belong to the congregation of The Central Church of Christ with assembly place at the Rotary Center, Roces Ave., Quezon City, Philippines. The Roman Catholic Church started in the year 606 and they amend their doctrines as they please.

I was going to say many of the things Irisheyes said, so I won't repeat them. Dan Brown's biggest 'legacy' is to have left the world thinking that the Catholic church has been involved in some big conspiracy. It's total nonsense, and there are umpteen books on the subject showing that it's nonsense. The books that Brown is supposed to have based his information on are also nonsense, but people read and believe this stuff anyway - as is evident from most of the responses you've had to your discussion. Hardly any thought going on, just a lot of rumours. Rumours are never truth; truth is truth. Check out the real history of the Catholic church, check out the real story of Constantine, and you'll find that Dan Brown's stuff is a load of crap. The trouble is he's now begun to believe it himself! I was brought up a Catholic, so I know a lot more about the church than most of you probably do, and I know that these sorts of conspiracy theories have been floating around much longer than I've been alive - all of sixty years. Most of them go back a couple of centuries at least. The trouble is people don't read real history, just the Dan Brown sort of history, which is rubbish.

Yes, they are hiding the facts about Jesus's siblings and that authority in the Church passed not to Peter but to James the Just, Jesus's brother. That Mary was not immaculately conceived and did not remain a virgin after the birth of Jesus. That the doctrine of the Trinity was not formulated till the 3rd century and is not supported by scripture. All the best urban

I agree in my personal opinion, I watched in the discovery channel about the building of the bible, they are very quite bias in stating their facts, but I find out that ther are many missing gospel that they find out and especially the gospel of Jude, which was kept for a long time. It was not included by Constantine in the making of the bible, which was presented like a story which has a beginning and an end, he made the bible because he was in a religious war and want the people to unite, by doing so he does not include a gospel of Jude, he want him to be depicted as a traitor, but in his gospel he was certainly the greatest apostle, because Jesus whisper to him that he was destined to betray him, eventhough it was against his will. So dont you wonder why he hangs himself beside the guilt he felt.

what a great topic! I am in agreement that the Roman Catholic church hides truths, occurences, illegal activity. I skimmed your comments and everyone has touched on what I've heard and read, the child molestation is documented. My parents are Jehovah's Witnesses and have been for years. That was one of my biggest problems with their organization is that while they very critical of Roman Catholics and other organized religions they themselves had their own internal 'agenda protocol' if you will, of handling wrong doing/doers withing their organization. When a member would 'confess' a sin such as rape, child molestation the member would be required to appear in front of a committee of appointed 'elders' to discuss the 'wrongdoing' and extent of the punishment. This same protocol for anyone discovered committing wrong doing. While most religions believe you should follow man's 'law' you don't EVER see or hear of them turning in members that are 'excommunicated' or disfellowshipped from their organizations to the local authorities to take responsiblitiy for the ILLEGAL ACT. In some cases they are known to "pray" over the person and that person is 'blessed' & 'forgiven' and sent along their way. This religious protocol of 'hiding' wrongdoing that is not only immoral but illegal was not something I could condone. Needless to say I'm not Roman Catholic or a Jehovah's Witness.

yea.. i think roman catholic sucks. they hide the truths, because history said it. however not all members of catholic are bad some of the are holy though.

absolutely! even before the renaissance period, the church is already hiding truths. The leaders of the catholic church knows exactly what to do to hold power over the people. during those days knowledge is very scarce, books can only be found in the private library of the churches, and thats because 'ignorance' is very useful to the church to maintain peace and order to their community, and with ignorance comes fear of the unknown, and thats another tool the church used to hold power. they used the fear of God. upon publishing the Bible, they only pick the books that would show examples of 'blind obedience' to God. an easy way to manipulate people into doing things that would profit the church. until now the Bible is being published in thousand per day and sold to the public, its still the 'one sided' truth book that many catholics read.

Yes they are. That's pretty commonly known. They picked and choose, edited and re-wrote every book in the canonized version of the Bible. There is just way too much information that I have researched to get into in this one discussion. But the answer is yes. They've covered up or hide facts about Jesus, Mary Magdelene, the crucifixtion, ect.

I don't know if they are hiding any truths, but it sure seems they've twisted the truth over the years.

Being a Catholic and a Freemason i find this discussion highly offensive. yes, there are some texts that are kept secret from the public. Why? because a lot of them relate to my pet hate Diabloism. Texts on black magic, idoltry and paganism are all kept here, books that if were in the wrong hands, and weak minds, cold quite easily be incredibly powerful and dangerous. It is not to oppress the rest of the world, nor is it profit, but for protection.

I think you are correct !