Posted on 03/21/2013 7:44:10 PM PDT by Morgana
Or at least the Tiber.
1984, and many years before that, the decades keep rolling on, presidential campaigns come and go, and nothing changes.
Catholics have supported Clinton, Clinton, Al Gore, Obama, and Obama, since 1984, today Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi represent Catholics and America in swearing in the new Pope, and they receive communion at the Vatican itself.
The rule is: There are no rules.
It stinks.
The Anti-Catholics keep pushing the same nonsense on almost every Catholic thread.
It’s misleading propaganda and you know it. The Catholics who attend Church regularly voted overwhelmingly for Romney.
That statistic includes the “Catholics” who were baptized 20+ years ago, and have only seen the inside of a Church on Christmas and Easter. Additionally, it includes the influx of Hispanic Catholics, who worship big government more than they worship Jesus.
“today Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi represent Catholics and America in swearing in the new Pope”
The hypocritical bastards sure as hell don’t represent me and my fellow REAL CATHOLICS I attend Mass with.
Actually, a person takes personal responsibility when he/she takes communion in an unworthy manner and will ultimately face the consequences.
1 Corinthians 11:29-31
29 For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. 31 But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment.
“...and will ultimately face the consequences.”
May they face the consequences sooner than later...may the consequences be a whole lot worse than ‘excommunication’.
bfl
The nonsense is to deny the Catholic vote, by proclaiming that the majority of Catholics are not Catholic, they are, and they vote democrat.
The Catholic vote was devoted to the democrat party long before Hispanics ever showed up, but I agree that more Catholic immigration is the gift that the left has been praying for and receiving, it cost republicans California for instance, forever, with more to come.
I agree, but we can’t pretend that they don’t represent the majority of Catholics and that the democrats have always represented the majority of Catholics, and that we need to fix that or we are doomed.
The Postal Service created a stamp with a picture of Nancy Pelosi.
The stamp was not sticking to envelopes. This enraged Pelosi, who demanded a full investigation.
After a month of testing, a special commission presented the following findings:
1) The stamp is in perfect order.
2) There is nothing wrong with the applied adhesive.
3) People are spitting on the wrong side. :)
So you are a Catholic, if you were at one point in your life, Baptized as a Catholic, and then you proceed to disregard all of its teachings and never attend Mass?
That is how the Catholic church counts it, in this case of voting though you have to also consider yourself a member of the Catholic denomination, if you don’t, then although the church calls you Catholic, you wouldn’t be counted as one as a voter.
For Protestants the category can mean never baptized, and you don’t have to belong to any church or have ever belonged to any church at all, you just need to say that you are a Christian.
God Bless this Catholic law priest.
Ignore those comments look discouraging, remember those are just OPINIONS only.
No, it's nonsense for the same sort of folks who claim infanticide by contraceptive is Christ-like to pretend they even know what a Christian is.
Since such folks obviously worship their own, "Most High and Holy Self" rather than Jesus Christ, they're actually hilarious when they pretend they are an authority on who is or is not Catholic.
They're easy to identify because of the huge beams sticking out of their eyes. Beams, for example, like their insisting infant baptism is meaningless, then in their propaganda claiming anyone who was ever baptized as Catholic while an infant is permanently, without fail, a Catholic forever, no matter what they do or what the individuals themselves say to the contrary.
And that's only one of the huge contradictions the Self Alone Self Worshipers constantly repeat. They're the Triceratops of hypocritical contradictions personified, with never fewer than three beams sticking out of their eyes.
It takes someone under a very strong delusion to make that sort of contradiction and think others will agree with it.
it wasn't some protestant who invented the "once a Catholic always a Catholic" phrase.
What's so jarringly weird about your full statement, is that you condemn those who insist as you put it, that "infant baptism is meaningless" when it's very much that infant baptism that makes so-called cradle Catholics, into being Roman Catholics in the first place.
That some outside the RCC point towards RC attitudes towards how they have in past centuries regarded membership in their own church, isn't a "beam in the eye" sort of thing, or some baseless fault of outsiders, at all.
Then again there are those high holy converts to the RCC who love nothing more than to shout how others are so condemned, for not being a convert like they are, even if they have to turn things around quite backwards to get'er' done.
I get your point. However, it's quite obvious that those who willfully ignore the Church's CLEAR TEACHING (whether they be labeled "Catholic" or "CINO" or something else) and support those who boo God at their convention and promote infanticide and sexual perversion are NOT Catholic by any measure. They have excommunicated themselves (latae sententiae). Unfortunately, this group may well include some nuns, priests, and even bishops. Spiritual blindness is the problem. The only way to "fix that" is through prayer.
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