2) Personal weakness (forgetting, hectic life, whatever) is to be overcome, not pandered to.
3) Those with legitimate medical issues should request a dispensation from their pastor.
They want to tell me, as I am out of town, between appointments, on a Friday, what I can EAT during a quick lunch, when I do not know the area well enough to find a Long John Silvers drive through -—
While the SAME Church allows Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi and Kathleen Sebelius and Chris Dodd to PRETEND to be “Catholic”???
Yes, there are individual acts of courage, by various Bishops, standing up to these “Catholic” public figures.
However, when Georgetown covers up the very NAME of Jesus, to make Obama happy, and when Notre Dame invited the abomination, Obama, to speak, and offers Obama an “honorary degree”???
NOPE! This is my Church concentrating on the trivial, when a public, ceremonial EXCOMMUNICATION is needed, for the proabortion politicians.
NOPE! This is my Church concentrating on the trivial, when a public censure of priests like Father Jenkins is called for.
I MUST have some means to display my disrespect for our current Church leadership.
Instead, I see the Church trying to make ME feel “guilty” for the trivial, while that same Church accepts the absurd with very little comment.
I am sure that you are a wonderful person, and I am not, in any way, chastising you. I commend you for being able to continue in YOUR faith, in times such as these.
Me?
My Church needs to LEAD BY EXAMPLE!
Not by cheap talk and silly rules for the sheep.