Imagine yourself in my position as a 3rd or 4th grader in a Catholic school. My Mother was Catholic, my Father was not.
I recall the pain I felt when the sister (nun) instructed us that anyone who was not Catholic could not enter heaven.
What!!! My Dad who worked hard at his factory job, was a perfectionist at what he turned out, stood on his feet all day, and turned his paycheck over to our Mother to run the house, would never be with God when his earthly life ended?
No, I wasn't aware at my young age of what Dad actually did everyday on his job. I learned more as I got older.
I did realize that he supported all of us.
No. I don't believe ANYONE on this earth has the knowledge and power to decide who God will choose to be with Him in eternity.
Guess I'm not a "real Catholic" anymore, along with the "practicing" Catholics who never miss receiving Communiion; even those, I suspect, who practice artificial birth control which the Catholic Church forbids, and some of whom rarely, if ever, avail themselves of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
One of the laws of the Church is to confess one's sins at least once a year. Are all those receiving Communiion fulfilling that obligation?
While I'm getting a bit off track here, it doesn't hurt to take an honest look at the bigger picture.
And there it is! By todays standards there seems to be a position that no one sins anymore or once saved always saved regardless of ones sins. I too have asked myself how so many people go to holy communion by there are few and far between standing in a line for confession. And yes I like the term confession better.We have many churches today who go along with abortion and especially homosexuality. There is a serious problem among Christians today. Why is it after 911 more people have turned to Islam? Todays moral standard is a little low. All one has to do is turn on the television to see how the American people have just accepted low standards of just about anything. I mean homosexuality is so much part of any television show one would think one in two are homosexual today. But then I am coming from the Ozzie and Harriet crowd and I miss it.And it amazes me how profanity is part of everyday life for people in general and on TV and the movies.
If the nun said what you remember her as saying, she was teaching heresy.