You were provided the definitive ex cathedra statement of Pope Eugene IV, repeated below. Why are you still confused?
I am confused as to why we still study the Old Testament if it is to be considered dead. Would it not be easier to just study the New testament + the Ten Commandments?
Please describe the "many rites and laws of the Old Testament [that] still stand." I am most curious what you are observing.
I may be in error.
Perhaps the persistent ecuмenic conversations to which I have been exposed convinced me, subconsciously, that our rites ad laws derive from Jєωιѕн rites and laws. Our early Church, before the councils, was more of a Jєωιѕн sect than a new religion and, maybe also this, subconsciously, produced the same belief.
I am happy to correct myself and learn.
As I mentioned in other threads, I have just started an online catechism course. I really feel inadequate and I ask you, and all members, to be patient and forgiving when I err.
... were it not for an initial thread that I posted here, to seek legal help in Germany, I would not have read other threads and I would not have started researching all the "crazy stuff" that people here were posting. I discovered that this "crazy stuff" was not so crazy and that I needed to study and docuмent myself much more.
As I docuмented myself, I realized that I was not practicing Catholicism but a new religion and wanted to convert back to Catholicism.
So, please, be patient with my ignorance as, if I were not in good faith, I would hide my ignorance rather than expose it. My posts are never written with the intent to confront members or dispute but are always genuine as I am someone who needs help. You cannot imagine how difficult this path, back to Faith, can be. My family of origin has shunned and banned me and I am looked as a worshipper of satan or as an extremist to be kept at a distance. This Christmas I will be alone with my Wife and child. And every night I am alone with my doubts and my anguish: am I doing the right thing? Am I guiding the family that I created to perdition or to salvation?
... this community, may have saved my soul, so, please, be patient.