Posted on 09/25/2012 6:40:10 AM PDT by markomalley
Do not be surprised when the Church has their big Emily Litella moment if he gets a second term...
So long as Pelosi and Biden claim they are “Catholics,” the church stands indicted as hypocrites.
You can not be a Catholic and support a pro-abortion, pro-homo “marriage” candidate. For these once-a-year Mass attending “catholics”, you need to find yourself a religion, I would suggest the Episcopalians, who allow baby killing and homo “marriage”. You are bringing down the Church with your open hostility to the teachings of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Quit calling yourself Catholic because you’re not.
Wow. Really well done.
Alice Von Hildebrand is pretty amazing. If we all knew someone of her moral clarity, we’d behave better.
I do wish that the Catholic Church would stop saying that you need to be saved through the Catholic Church. No where in the Bible does it say that. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” I think when the people understand that the Church doesn’t save them, we will see people like Biden and Pelosi move on to a liberal church. They think they are saved but their actions don’t speak of their following what Jesus says.
they are CINOs only.
Christ founded his Church on Peter and the Apostles — the first Pope and Bishops.
Can you get your brain around that?
You’re wrong. The Catholic Church believes in any baptism that believes in the Holy Trinity. These Christians are in the Body of Christ. They do say though that the Catholic Church is the fullness of the Faith, which it is.
Yes, I can understand that but that is not what Jesus meant. Salvation comes through HIM, not the church. He is our salvation. Please look at John 14:6. Yes, Jesus built His church on Peter and the others but it was their confession of Jesus being Lord and Savior. Check out Romans 10:9,10.
Sadly, it is not just the once-a-year Catholics who support Obama and the Dems. At my soon-to-be-former parish, there are cars in the parking lot every week with Obama bumper stickers; an extraordinary minister has publicly declared herself pro-choice; and the faith formation director drives a vehicle with Obama-Biden bumper stickers.
It's the sort of parish where there's a lot of talk about "fair-trade coffee," social justice, and Hallmark card banalities about love and happiness but very little talk about the the Church's immutable teachings on abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, contraception, etc... It aches my soul.
Yes, Jesus died on the Cross, and after his Resurrection he established the Catholic Church by breathing on the Apostles and giving them the power to forgive sin. It's in the Bible. Why don't you believe the Bible?
The Catholic Church does not say that.
You are misinformed...or brainwashed by your “pastor”.
FROM THE WEEKLY STANDARD:
What the Schneck?
A Catholic University scholar’s data-free theory on Romney and abortion. OCT 1, 2012, VOL. 18, NO. 03 • BY JONATHAN V. LAST
Professor Stephen Schneck is a conundrum. He’s a Catholic who works for the Catholic University of America (CUA). But he’s involved with the group Catholics for Obama—despite the church hierarchy’s view that the president is attacking the religious freedom of Catholics. He’s pro-life. But he supports Democratic politicians universally—even though the party has become manifestly hostile to pro-lifers. Schneck’s most puzzling contradiction is this: He claims that while Democrats support abortion rights, it’s really Republicans who cause abortions.
Schneck is very specific about it. He has numbers. At an event in Charlotte earlier this month during the Democratic convention, Schneck spoke on a panel hosted by Democrats for Life. He asked the audience, “Can one vote for Romney if it means a 6, or 7, or, God forbid, 8 percent increase in the number of abortions in America?”
That’s an interesting question. Interesting because (1) it contradicts the received wisdom about abortion and (2) it does so with seeming mathematical precision. Schneck doesn’t foresee a 4 percent jump. Or a 12 percent jump. He locates the projected rise in a narrow band. It’s the kind of figure that brings you up short. Because Stephen Schneck isn’t just some crank professor trying to rile up his undergraduates. He’s the director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies—CUA’s in-house think tank. As IPR says on its website, the “institute continues to bring rigorous academic research to bear on contemporary questions of public policy and religion.”
So when Schneck says that the number of abortions will increase under Mitt Romney, by 6 or 7 or 8 percent, he isn’t just popping off. He’s a serious academic, wearing Catholic University’s pointiest, most rigorous, social science hat.
Or so, at first, I thought.
Christ did not come to teach us to drink the kool aid and to hold our tongues in the face of things that are clearly wrong. Even if the perps are wearing Cardinals’ vestments.
I stand by my statement that if Obama gets re-elected the Church leadership will crawl back in the hole and quietly accept the fact that they have to pay for birth control. After all they’ve been accepting that in Europe since the 1960’s.
Alice von Hildebrand continues to be a treasure of the Church.
Her teaching can be a great asset for some of the new evangelization :-)
“I stand by my statement that if Obama gets re-elected the Church leadership will crawl back in the hole and quietly accept the fact that they have to pay for birth control.”
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I believe you are quite mistaken about this.
The Catholic Church is all dead but in parts of Europe, replaced by athiests and socialism. The US Supreme Court will strike down the religious liberty part of the HHS mandate. I stand by that statement.
“The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit, they are foolishness unto him.” (1 Corinthians 2:14)
Yes I can get my brains around that; but I cannot get my spirit around it!
Jesus said: “It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak they are spirit, and they are life,” John 6:63)
Jesus also said: “I will build My church....not others, but My church” (Matthew 16:18)
.....that spiritual Rock that followed them; that Rock was Christ.” (1 Corinthians 10: 4)
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