Posted on 08/31/2015 2:16:01 PM PDT by NYer
While you are alive, Jesus is perfect mercy. At the moment of your death Jesus become perfect justice.
Something to think about.
It is, however, quite ready, willing, and able to confront those awful Fundamentalist Protestants who are stuck in the past that they actually think G-d can't state anything that isn't true.
And Catholics wonder where their current crisis came from!
Not while the current person is pope.
Seems the Pope has more faith in totalitarian government than in God.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/mega-agenda-21-resurrected-with-popes-help/
You are welcome, asyouwish.
The attempt to "empower the laity" resulted in giving the laity "priestly" things to do. That was absolutely wrong. The fundamental task of the priest is to bring Christ into the world, through consecrating the Eucharist. The fundamental task of the laity is to take Christ into the world, and be the "leaven" in society. Post-Vatican II, the Church completely ignored this duty of the laity.
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Is the (Catholic) Church Prepared to Confront the Secular Culture? >>
no, most priests, nuns and bishops are democrats, the secularists are the politicians they vote for so the politicians can represent them in government, we’re a republic, right? When democrat priests vote for the anti-God secularist crowd, they are voting for people who represent their ideals and beliefs.
I would say the unilateral disarmament seems to be coming from the top, not just the Pope, but bishops also. But I could be wrong. Granted, one probably shouldn’t talk about moral issues all the time, but to never talk about them and give the appearance of giving a wink and a nudge to those who are promoting the false moral of the current world is just wrong, IMHO. Mercy is of course important, but to say sin is not sin and doesn’t matter is false mercy.
Only stats I found as God enables in grace:
Table 18.5 records the actual level of political engagement reported by Catholic priests in the election of 2000; such activity seems to have been somewhat limited in nature. Only a bare majority of respondents (54 percent) publicly took the unexceptionable position of urging the members of their congregations to register and vote, and just less than half of the priests in the sample (48 percent) prayed publicly about a political issue. A minority of these priests engaged in other political activities: less than two of five (38 percent) Catholic clergy had con-tacted a public official about some issue; only one-third (33 percent) took a stand on some political issue while preaching; and less than one-quarter (23 percent) prayed publicly for political candidates.
Despite the expectations of some analysts (see especially Prendergast 1999), Catholic priests remain largely Democratic in their personal political identifications. Just under half (48 percent) report identifying with the Democratic Parry, while only 31 percent consider themselves Republicans.. However, the pattern of party preference is distinctive in another sense. Given that the distribution of partisan identification among clergy in many other denominations examined in this volume are skewed in the direction of one particular political party, the relatively equal distribution of Catholic priests within each category of partisan identification tends to be unique. In addition, given the older age of many of the priests surveyed, it is noteworthy that there is a higher pro-portion of Republican Party identifiers among younger, rather than older, priests...
Roman Catholic clergy exhibit a combination of anticipated and unex-pected patterns in their theology, political attitudes, and political behav-ior. Theologically, the prints express views that are both conservative and liberal in their theological interpretation. On some doctrinal mat-ters, Catholics pastors are highly orthodox in their theological under-standings and stand in agreement with many conservative Protestant clergy; on other theological matters, they adopt positions that stand in stark contrast to such conservative pastors and appear to be more liberal in their theological beliefs than many mainline Protestant ministers. - Pulpit and Politics: Clergy in American Politics at the Advent of the Millennium edited by Corwin E. Smidt, pp. 244-246 , Baylor University Press (October 6, 2004)
In a 2010 LifeWay Research survey 77 percent of American Protestant pastors (57% of mainline versus 87% evangelical) strongly disagree with same-sex marriage, with 6% percent somewhat disagreeing, and 5% being somewhat in agreement and 10 percent strongly agreeing. (5% of evangelical).
Only 3% of evangelical pastors (versus 11% mainline) somewhat agree that there is nothing wrong with homosexual marriage.
11% of evangelical pastors (versus 30% mainline) somewhat agree that homosexual civil unions are acceptable, with 67% of the former and 38% of the latter strongly disagreeing with homosexual civil unions. October 2010 LifeWay Research survey of 1,000 randomly selected Protestant pastors. http://www.lifeway.com/ArticleView?storeId=10054&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&article=LifeWay-Research-protestant-pastors-oppose-homosexual-marriage
A 2002 nationwide poll of 1,854 priests in the United States and Puerto Rico reported that 30% of Roman Catholic priests described themselves as Liberal, 28% as Conservative, and 37% as Moderate in their Religious ideology. 53 percent responded that they thought it always was a sin for unmarried people to have sexual relations; 32 percent that is often was, and 9 percent seldom/never. However, nearly four in 10 younger priests in 2002 described themselves as conservative, and were more likely to regard as "always a sin" such acts as premarital sex, abortion, artificial birth control, homosexual relations, etc., and three-fourths said they were more religiously orthodox than their older counterparts. Los Angeles Times (extensive) nationwide survey (2002). http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/reports/LAT-Priest-Survey.pdf http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_2_39/ai_94129129/pg_2
The survey also found that 80% of Roman Catholic priests referred to themselves as “mostly” heterosexual in orientation, with 67% being exclusively heterosexual, 8% leaning toward heterosexual, 5% completely in the middle, and 6% leaning toward homosexual and 9% saying they are homosexual, for a combined figure of 15% on the homosexual class. Among younger priests (those ordained for 20 years or less) the figure was 23%. ^
One-third of surveyed priests said they “do not waver” from their vow of celibacy, while 47% described celibacy as “an ongoing journey” and 14% said they “do not always succeed in following” it. 2% said celibacy is not relevant to their priesthood and they do not observe it. not celibate. ^
71 percent of priests responded that it always was wrong for a woman to get an abortion, 19 percent that it often was, and 4 percent seldom/never. ^
28 percent judged that is always was sin for married couples to use artificial birth control, 25 percent often, 40 percent never. ^
49 percent affirmed that it was always a sin to engage in homosexual behavior, often, 25 percent; and never, 19 percent. ^
To take one's own life if suffering from a debilitating disease: always, 59 percent; often, 18 percent; never, 17 percent. ^
A combined 15 percent of the clergy polled identified themselves as "gay (9%) > or more (6%) on the homosexual side." Among younger priests 23 percent did so. Los Angeles Times (extensive) nationwide survey (2002). http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/reports/LAT-Priest-Survey.pdf
17 percent of the priests said "definitely" , and 27% said "probably," a homosexual subculture'--defined as a `definite group of persons that has its own friendships, social gatherings and vocabulary'--exists in their diocese or religious order. ^
After examining the official web sites of 244 Catholic universities and colleges in America, the TFP Student Action found that 107 – or 43% have pro-homosexual clubs. TFP Student Action Dec. 6. 2011; studentaction.org/get-involved/online-petitions/pro-homosexual-clubs-at-107-catholic-colleges/print.html
Better, Free Republic threads.
And few Americans are getting a solid elementary/high school education.
I would say the unilateral disarmament seems to be coming from the top, not just the Pope, but bishops also. But I could be wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact
Peace in our time soon followed....
INDEED!
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