Posted on 03/06/2014 1:58:27 PM PST by NYer
These are legal matters, with some moral obligations. The church doesn't make civil law, but she has to recognize that civil law is meant to protect citizens.
Ping!
Thank you for posting this.
I was getting worried.
Birds of a feather and all that.
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FROM
Cohabitation and Church’s Teaching
Living Together: Questions and Answers Regarding Cohabitation and the Church’s Moral Teaching
The Bishops of Pennsylvania
1. What is cohabitation?
“Cohabitation” is commonly referred to as “living together.” It describes the relationship of a man and woman who are sexually active and share a household, though they are not married.
LIVE LIKE BROTHER TO BROTHER OR SISTER TO SISTER...NO SEX
We have enough problems battling secularism, narcissism, relativism and all the other "isms". The Catholic Church is under attack from every direction. The Holy Father has addressed a Letter to Families, asking for their prayers. Here is an opportunity to devote the next 39 days, as a family, to pray for Pope Francis. It is also a good time to examine and resolve the motives that drive your distrust for him. I wish you all a Blessed Lent.
I have experienced some concern with our new Pope, but it still appears that he is trying to speak in neutral, conciliatory tones. That’s fine, as long as he doesn’t betray the Churches fundamental beliefs.
Every year at lent and advent the secular media tries to find ways to stir the pot and get Catholics and other Christians all jacked up over nothing.
**First the Holy Father makes clear that marriage is between a man and woman! Duh! **Hooray for Pope Francis!
I am so glad for Pope Francis he has the FR RF in his hip pocket making sure he is ‘clearly understood.’ If it was not for you and a few more posters, this Pope would just be judged on what he actually says and not what others say he actually says.
Now if you have a few minutes, perhaps you can post on the thread to defend the Pope lifting a rosary in a casket from a deceased priest. The apologetics for casket ‘lifting’ should be interesting.
Hey, they've had plenty of practice with the *It doesn't mean what it says, it means what we say it means* meme.
They've been using it with Scripture for centuries.
Every year at lent and advent the secular media tries to find ways to stir the pot and get Catholics and other Christians all jacked up over nothing.
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You are so right. And they love to twist every word that the Holy Father utters.
Thank you for posting this.
In the spirit of Lent, I will forgive you for this very ignorant and malicious statement.
Don't forget Modernism....in the Church.
Another example of a lie posted to distort the truth. First of all, let's begin with facts. He removed only the crucifix from the rosary and now wears it in a pouch next to his heart. Let's revisit the event.
Francis made the revelation Thursday during an informal chat with Roman priests about the need to be merciful to their flocks. He told the story of the "great confessor" of Buenos Aires who had heard confessions from most of the diocesan priests as well as from Pope John Paul II when he visited Argentina.When the priest died, Francis went to pray by his open casket and was stunned that no one had brought any flowers.
`'This man forgave the sins of all the priests of Buenos Aires, but not a single flower ...?" Francis recalled. So he went out and bought a bouquet of roses, and when he returned to arrange them around the casket, he saw the rosary the priest still held in his hand.
"And immediately there came to mind the thief we all have inside ourselves and while I arranged the flowers I took the cross and with just a bit of force I removed it," he said, showing with his hands how he pulled the cross off the rosary. "And in that moment I looked at him and I said `Give me half your mercy.'
The pope asked for half his mercy. He then went on to say:
"And whenever a bad thought comes to mind about someone, my hand goes here, always," he said, gesturing to his heart. "And I feel the grace, and that makes me feel better."
The priest is long dead but, through the cross from his rosary, the mercy he showed continues through the pope. To honor the memory of the deceased is wrong?
When my grandmother died, just before they closed the lid on her coffin, I took her rosary. During her life, she counted off prayers for friends and family on those beads. Today, I do the same and will now add you to my list.
Yup. Hoooray. All the atheists are going to heaven and the muzzies and Christians all worship the same God, so says Fran.
Great post.
I'd prefer that this pope be judged on what he actually says, but none of the Catholic bloggers and their ilk are content to let that happen - "what the pope actually meant was", "the pope's words were mistranslated", etc is the "Catholic word of the day" every day for these people. It's called being a "public relations manager", and I'd swear that the Catholic Church must have invented it.
Are you, too, a man who has served in the military and knows how to discern right from wrong, believing this media?
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