Posted on 07/10/2012 2:57:04 PM PDT by NYer
“So I feel that the Catholic Church should be open and welcoming and encourage people to find God and follow the path of Jesus.”
The Catholic Church is welcoming, but doesn’t cheapen The Faith by accomodating heresy. As far as marriage choices, many Catholics marry Protestants; it is unusual for a Catholic with attachment to the Tridentine Rite to do so. They take their faith more seriously than the Catholic population in general, so it is unusual.
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