You don’t think an article called “What’s WRONG with Catholic Voters” isn’t Catholic bashing? I disagree. We get this every cr@p every single election, as the media lumps religious Catholics with those who use the church for baptism, marriage and burial only, yet tell pollsters they’re “catholic.”
Let me restate my argument. Lump blacks with every American who was ever baptized in a Protestant church and put those votes up against the “catholic” vote and a very similar voting pattern will emerge.
There is no Protestant vote. There is no Catholic vote. There is the religious vote and the non-religious vote. But if the media spoke in those terms they wouldn’t get to bash Catholics after every stinking election.
So?...Why is the Catholic Church allowing non-observant Catholics use their churches for these celebrations?
I have been too far too many **extravagant** Catholic weddings where the entire congregation and the PRIEST has known the the couple have been living openly together even up to the night before the wedding!!!!
Maybe,....These beautiful ceremonies should be reserved for the faithful and those for the non-faithful should be far more quiet. Perhaps for those couples living openly together there should be pressured from the families, from the congregation, and from the priest for quiet and expeditious marriage in the church rectory.
If Joe Biden were to die tonight, I bet the farm that next week there would be a full and gorgeous funeral procession in the most prominent Wilmington Catholic Church. I bet the bishop would even perform the Mass.
When is the Catholic hierarchy going to say:
“No the baptism will be done in the rectory or your home.”
“No, I advise that you plan a marriage promptly. We will have the ceremony in the rectory office.”
“No, your husband has not attended Mass in 35 years. We will have a prayer service and ( possibly a small quiet Mass for the immediate family) at the funeral home with prayer at the grave site.”
As a non-Catholic this is why I ask the questions that you think are human excrement. Honestly, I don't get it. Why are religious Catholics allowing non-observant Catholic get away with this? I don't get it. I **really** don't get it. And you shouldn't be surprised when non-Catholics make pointed observations about it.