This article was posted in the category of Catholic. Try your best to straighten out all the poor Catholics in the world. Don’t worry about me, I will remain a Catholic all my life! Pray for us Catholics. Like Jesus said, for the hard cases, it takes not only prayer but also fasting. Make a good fast for me! Thanks!
Consider it done sir.
The article was not labeled a caucus thread If you do not wish dissenting views please label as Catholic caucus Otherwise expect discussion. I pray my Catholic friends put their trust in Christ and no one else
Why?
You've already said you are not going to change your mind.
Although I do have one question:
Are you going to remain a Catholic AFTER death?
JosephJames to Mom MD
“This article was posted in the category of Catholic. Try your best to straighten out all the poor Catholics in the world. Don’t worry about me, I will remain a Catholic all my life! Pray for us Catholics. Like Jesus said, for the hard cases, it takes not only prayer but also fasting. Make a good fast for me! Thanks!”
I would like to admit that the other day I realize now that I was a little facetious. I was in a hurry when I responded to you. Because like they say, one draws more flies with honey than a barrel of vinegar. On the other hand, to be open with you, perhaps what I took from your comments on the article that I posted, was what I encounter more and more today in all the churches, to set out to put someone straight without the willingness to listen or dialogue. This greatly irritates me especially in my Church, the Catholic Church, especially from priests or bishops, who want to impose without an example to follow, and even worse, to do so without making any reference to the beliefs, the doctrines, of the Catholic Church! I think you can understand this. If a Lutheran, imposes on another Lutheran in the same church, according to his “enlightened intelligence”, without making any reference to the set of beliefs or doctrines of the Lutheran church, this is really gross. None of us are God, but how easy it is to decide according to our own heads right and wrong as did our first parents (Gen 3:4-5)! Subjectivism, relativism, hurray for human pride, which drives people away!
As was written in the article posted:
“When I am tempted to criticize a priest who treats me badly because I am concerned about the great danger to souls in this period of time, among other examples, I like to recall the attitude of the Good Thief on the cross who, while recognizing his own sins, said to the other thief: “We indeed justly; for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but his man has done nothing wrong.” And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingly power” (Lk 23:40-42). When Saint Francis of Assisi saw a public sinner in Assisi, he said: “There goes Francis if it were not for the grace of God”! The Truth does not belong to those on the left of the spectrum nor on the right of the spectrum; the Truth does not belong to any human being; the Truth is Jesus (Jn 14:6). Every good thought or inspiration come from God (2Cor 3:5; Phil 2:13). We should defend the Truth, but with the proper attitude of who we are and Who God is!”
In the United States there are at least 30,000 independent protestant groups with the same Bible, profession in the same Jesus Christ, but with a great number of contradictory interpretations of many passages in the Bible. Jesus, as God, knew this would happen, and thus Jesus offered the solution and the guidance who have the humility to seek it and accept it. Christ did not found His Church with 12 perfect angels from heaven, but 12 sinners, called the apostles.
As is written in the article posted:
“BEFORE 1930 ALL MAINLINE PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS WERE IN ACCORD WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH that the use of artificial birth control was a grave evil and a serious sin. When the Anglican Church changed its stance in 1930 (Lambeth Conference) the other protestants churches quickly followed suit while Pope Pius XI reaffirmed the Church’s constant teaching on this grave evil in his encyclical Casti Cannubii (1930). When the Anglican Church first approved the use of contraception in 1930 it was only for serious reasons and only for married people who have been generous for life. However, by providing an opening for contraception, the qualifying phrase “for serious reason” was quickly ignored. Subsequently the use of contraception was viewed as virtuous behavior, and even the silent holocaust of abortion has become a private ethical choice of birth control. The unborn, unwanted babies no longer have any legal protection; they are now ripped to pieces after they are brutally murdered. BABIES DO NOT CHOOSE TO DIE! Is this not a good example of the slippery slope? The former Hippocratic oath for health care workers read: “I will administer no abortafacient to a pregnant woman.” The original Hippocratic oath acknowledged that abortion was a form of doing violence not only to the child but to the woman as well.”
But as I wrote to another blogger on FreeRepublic, 400 years ago those who did not like the Catholic Church protested and left. But now the protesters, who want a Christianity without the cross, have decided to throw out those who believe that the Ten Commandments come from God and therefore no Church, or no person, can change what comes from God. This is like spoiled arrogant children, who rebel against their parents, but do not leave the house that their parents bought, but throw out the parents. But since these children do not want to work, no one pays the bills and in the end we see what is happening to our country with these type of rebellious children now in power in the government – an incredible national debt. When Pope Paul VI issued his prophetic encyclical, “HUMANAE VITAE” (1968), reaffirming what Christians knew for centuries about separating the unitive act of love between a husband and a wife from the responsibility of giving life as God gave to each of us (“Be fruitful and multiply” (Gen 1:28)), there was an incredible negative reaction not only on the part of the laity in the Catholic Church who wanted to enjoy the pleasures of sexual relationships without any responsibility or openness to life by using artificial birth control, but even on the part of a great number of priests and bishops, even entire Episcopal conferences (e.g., the ‘Winnipeg Statement’ of the Canadian Bishops)!
When each of us die, it is not God Who sends us to heaven or hell, it is each of us who choose heaven or hell. If a person persevered during this short life to take the risk of seeking the uncomfortable truth outside of his head, which leads to Christ (Jn 14:6) instead of inventing the truth according to his own head, to trust God instead of himself, he will want to continue seeking this truth after death and will want to be with God Who is the Truth (Jn 14:6). But if a person willing deceived himself, taking the easier way, with the help of the beautiful lies and temptations of “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44), when he dies, just as during this short life, he will not want to be with the Truth outside of his own head, and will choose the only other place that exists for eternity where there is not God. Each one of us has received different amounts of grace and truth from God (the parable of the talents – Mt 25:14-30); how we correspond to these gifts from God will determine our eternal destiny.
Heaven and hell are the exact opposites. When a new person arrives to heaven everyone rejoices. When a new person arrives to hell, everyone has more hate and pain.
Let us pray for each other to seek the truth, in a world more filled with confusion and lies than ever before, to seek the hidden pearl (Mt 13:44-46), even if it means to follow Christ all the way to Calvary and loose everything, even our good name before men, as Christ did on the cross, considered a great criminal worthy of crucifixion.