[Just mythoughts]

Why are the wires getting crossed?

I married a Catholic, have been told since we met that the Bible stories didn't really happen, were put there as life's lessons.

My son goes with a gal who he attends church with and she has told him that what is Written is just stories.

Now what this Bishop says I have been told over and over again by people who are Catholic and attend church.

[Qwinn]

Then those people are highly uneducated as to Catholic teaching. That is not the Catholic Church's position, and it looks like they got a bad priest to teach them.

Are you of the notion that if there exists bad priests teaching incorrect theology, that discredits the entire Church and makes their official positions meaningless?

Would you be defending the Church if the official Church position were that the Bible is inaccurate but there were a small number of priests teaching what you believe to be correct? Somehow, I doubt it. There are bad priests in the Catholic religion just like there are bad people in -any- religion. I, for one, have never seen an extremely Catholic televangelist that claims God said to give him money or he would be taken home. Does that mean everyone who shared his faith was corrupt?

Qwinn

[jscd3]

Why are the wires getting crossed?

Why indeed. As I noted in a post to Qwinn above, he may not be Catholic, but he seems to know a Hell of a lot more about Catholocism than a lot a Catholics I know. Your post is proving my point

Ever since the 60's, there has been a real problem in religious formation in America - the Church isn't doing it. A discussion of the reasons why that's the case could probably fill a hundred threads - there are lots of opinions, but the fact is that this is the case.