Celibacy

The Catholic Thing ^ | June 22, 2014 | Kristina Johannes

[verga]

Good grief, why all the attacking from the non-Catholics?

it is an attempt to justify their own poor choices. Many feel that it makes tem better to drag others out of the true church. Either that or their panties are in a bunch.

[Salvation]

I have experienced a Jewish counselor who was very good as well as lesbian counselor who didn’t listen to me, but told me what she thought.

The Jewish counselor was married and helped me through the death of my husband.

[verga]

It's easy to have all the answers until you've been there.

[verga]

It's easy to have all the answers until you've been there.

[Salvation]

elude means to avoid

allude means to talk about a similarity

[BipolarBob]

You didn't take any wind from my sails. Telling Catholics to go to another church to get married and you will graciously let them back in through the back door is too much like playing a game. Your theology is flawed and non-Biblical.

[Salvation]

All vocations are equally blessed by God. Marriage, single life, priesthood and consecrated religious life.

We are all called to a vocation.

[verga]

Mr R did not so much as elude to sex.

Elude means to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade: to elude capture. Synonyms: shun, dodge.

I believe the word you should have used is allude: to refer casually or indirectly; make an allusion (usually followed by to): He often alluded to his poverty.

Schooled again by a public school teacher.

[verga]

So if it's really subject to change, then why is bringing up the issue such a sore spot for so many Catholics.

Documentation please, who says it is a sore spot for so many Catholics?

I'm sorry I forgot prots don't document they just make wild unsubstantiated claims.

[verga]

Really? Someone who is not married is superior in discussing marriage to a married counselor?

Really is it now a requirement that ALL marriage counselors be married? When did this law pass? Is it just for your state or all states?

[Salvation]

Ditto!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3170979/posts?page=67#67

[BipolarBob]

Whining about what any group does that you're not a member is kind of a waste of breath.

You don't have much fun on the forum boards do you? I mean unless people agree 100% with you. Do new/foreign ideas frighten you? Is it painful to re-examine what you have been taught to see if it squares with The Word of God? If there were a difference in what the Bible taught and what Church Tradition teaches which way would you lean?

[Salvation]

Can we discuss crime even though we are not criminals?

Can we discuss politics even though we are not politicians?

Can we discuss gardening even though we are not Master Gardeners?

Get with it!

[verga]

It's easy to have all the answers until you've been there.

Yeah because priests don't have a past. They just woke up one day fully grown with a Roman collar. They never saw their parents or anyone else's marriage. Never had any relatives that were married or have had any training in counseling what so ever.

[BipolarBob]

Really is it now a requirement that ALL marriage counselors be married?

Is that how you read that? That it was a requirement? For a schoolteacher you might want to brush up on the reading for comprehension lesson.

[verga]

This is for both of you. I have plenty of fun, I just don't go to prot sites telling them they are wrong or how to fix their churches. I don't go on prot threads and tell them they are sinners and going to hell. I don't go to Mormon or pagan threads and tell them to get right with Jesus.

On the other hand the usual suspects continually come on these threads and say some of the stupidest things about matters that are really of no concern to them.

[defconw]

Only if you are not Catholic. See because we are Catholic we know nothing, not even our own religion. Notice the anti-Catholics never tell us the church they go to, they, just come in here day after day, after day. Adding nothing spouting scripture, making accusations about what we said or maybe they just think they can read minds.

I seriously don't know what motivates them.

[verga]

Your words Bobby: Really? Someone who is not married is superior in discussing marriage to a married counselor?

I went by your exact words, if you meant something else than you should have written something else.

[BipolarBob]

You’re just trying to cornfuse me. And did a purty good job of it too. I think they were originally Mr Rogers words on post #57 but now my head is swimming. I don’t think being married is a requirement for being a marriage counselor.

[verga]

My mistake it was Mr. Rogers post 57. But the truth is still there. those were his words. I don’t know of any requirement that marriage counselors be married.