Posted on 08/05/2010 12:36:10 PM PDT by NYer
“Yeah, so you respond to something you found insulting/offensive by insulting people as “confused”?”
There’s nothing particularity insulting about the use of the descriptor, “confused”.
Unless you’re Mr. Thin-Skin.
;)
The prohibition of divorce comes directly from Christ Himself. The Church can only abide by the rules of its Founder.
That article has a LOT of problems with it.
Your false accusations of idolatry transgress the commandment against bearing false witness.
That maybe so, but I refused to stay married to a man who would beat a 3 year old for stupid reasons, or pick up a 6 week old to spank him because he had colic.
I spanked both of them many times when the offense was serious enough to call for it. But always with a open hand to the backside. Not a punch or a blow to the head, which their ‘father’ would have done if I had not left him.
“Your false accusations of idolatry transgress the commandment against bearing false witness.”
I’ve seen South American and European Catholics bring gifts of food and drink and lay them in front of statues of Saints as gifts to them.
Does that qualify as “idolatry” in your book?
Cause it does in mine.
No. The plural of anecdote is not "data".
And there it is! That is one of the reasons the author gives for why poorly catechized Catholics leave the church. Sadly, these people have no concept of the Mass and how they have abandoned Christ who comes to them in the Eucharist.
Keep it up with the insults.
It is the priest’s job to resolve family disputes like this. A father that harms his children is in serious sin and would be denied communion until he repents if the mother informs the priest. If the father is not controllable by the priest and there is grave necessity, separation and civil divorce is permitted.
If you don't know what you believe there is no reason to hold it dear.
There are parallels in the world at large.. If you weren't educated in what makes the US different from other places..how can you hold her dear or even respect her?
We have a few converts in our parish. Besides being well versed biblically, they are on fire for the Eucharist.
It’s like this light went on and they SEE, Christ is Present.
That is an easy thing to keep saying generation after generation, after generation, after generation, but it doesn't help conservatives.
I’m not much into individual stories like that, I don’t think that it speaks to anything larger, it is just a story about a guy named Newt Gingrich.
I find it of interest, when I read Catholic’s both here and on Catholic Answers.com describing Evangelicals I note that the details they mention do not reflect this Evangelicals 35 years personal experience post Rome.
And is it just me but am I the only one in the world that see’s humor in the statement that 1000s of young Evangelicals are crossing the Tiber looking for a moral authority in their church that they are not getting in evangelical land? And what about this intellectual thing? Go to your typical Bible Book Store and find at least some theology books. Go to a Catholic Book Store and read about the latest sighting of the BVM. I leave it to the reader to decide which is more intellectual.
I keep my ear fairly close to the ground with respect to what the Catholics are talking about. Seem’s like they have talking points memo’s because this week it’s bash the non- denominationals. A few weeks ago it was bash the baptists while playing nice to the Anglicans and more recient the Lutherans.
I know. That’s why I said it’s sad.
Those that I have talked to about their departure said it was mainly due to theological reasons.
At the local conservative, non-denominational church here, over half of the congregation is former Roman Catholic. And the majority of them are there because they're divorced and remarried.
Their prior church had theological reasons for not remarrying them after they got divorced.
And no Catholic would criticize you for doing so...but you knew that, didn't you?
Do you really imagine no one notices the difference between why you justifiably left the first husband, and subsequently took on the second?
That sounds bizarre and certainly has nothing to do with Catholicism. Where in Europe have you seen this? Putting flowers in front of statues is a show of respect but no purpose is served by food or drink. It would have to be some kind of pagan syncretism.
Idolatry is displacement of God in one's heart with something else. God Himself raised up the Prophets, Apostles, and Saints to inspire His people. The normal, healthy veneration of saints has been universal within the Church since the time of the earliest Christians. It helps keep us mindful of God's power by serving as a well-proven channel of His miracles.
I call b.s.
If you know people who went Catholic for "smells and bells" then I know evangelicals who got "saved" to get more business!
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