Posted on 10/24/2012 3:30:46 PM PDT by NYer
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Including the bishops, who appear to have never read the Republican party platform before this election cycle, and who have refused to deny the Euchariast to pro-abortion politicians.
My aunt died a few years back at the age of 95.She was a devout Catholic...Mass every single day until,in her late 80’s,she was physically unable to do it anymore.We’d have spirited discussions about the fact that she always voted Rat.”Do you agree with homosexual marriage or abortion”,I’d ask.”No,I don’t” she’d reply.”Then why vote for Rats?”,I’d ask.”Because they give me my Social Security”.
Then how can they be catholic? How can you be pro abortion and be a catholic? Any catholics want to answer?
Certainly..... they are called cafeteria or smorgaasboard Catholics.
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I believe in the United States of America. But I don't believe in a representative congress -or in one man one vote -and I want to change the form of government to me being king and you being my minions. Am I an American? Hardly. Baptism does not a catholic make.
there must be some theological reason why Catholics do not get involved in campaigns. They discuss issues, but never are there for the battle.
I was raised a South Omaha Democrat. Think conservative democrat and when I became 18, I could no longer support a party that wasn’t in line with my values.
Granted, the Republican party has it’s challenges, but is more in line with my value system. My folks are die hard Catholics and to this day, vote ALMOST a straight Democrat ticket.
Hell, I have an aunt who is a nun and over a large order who thinks Obama’s is great. I have never been able to figure it out.
Believe it or not, it does!
"Roman Catholics, the largest U.S. church with a reported 69 million members, start counting baptized infants as members and often don’t remove people until they die. Most membership surveys don’t actually count who’s in the pews on Sunday...."
....it is possible, for example, to be born Catholic, married Methodist, die Lutheran and still be listed as a member of the 1 billion-member Roman Catholic Church....
"...The Catholic understanding of membership is that a person becomes a member upon baptism and remains a member for life," Gautier said. "Whether you show up at church or not is not what determines whether you're a member."
-- from the thread When It Comes to Church Membership Numbers, the Devil's in the Details
Sure, they've adopted the Protestant doctrine of interpreting Scripture for themselves and become Protestants in all but name.
While 'Cafeteria Catholics' is what such folks are usually called they're just more non-Catholics who claim to be Christian. Just like the majority of those who claim to be Christian, they follow in the footsteps of Eve by interpreting His Word to suit themselves and in reality worship only their own, Most High and Holy Self.
So, if I say I’m a catholic but don’t believe in catholic doctrine, I can be catholic too?
I know the woman is now dead; but, maybe you should have asked her if she stopped getting her SS when Reagan was president. Or, did she not get her SS when GWBush was president. That might have made her think a bit more instead of just voting out of fear.
Don't be hasty, though, you might enjoy one of the tens of thousands of names non-Catholics have come up with. You might, for example, enjoy calling yourself an Emerging Homo or a Nondenominational Evangelical Fundamentalist more than you would enjoy pretending to be a Catholic.
But why stop with calling yourself something someone else already uses? Start your own church with a nice new name and maybe you can get enough followers to have your own mega church one of these days.
Something like, "Conservative Evangelical Pentecostal Self Interpreting Contraceptors", would probably draw a crowd so take you time and consider all the possibilities before you bother with pretending to be Catholic.
CEPSC? Nah, to start a church, you gotta have a snappy name, not something that sounds like a wino clearing his throat.
Something like, ‘Preachers Of Only Truth’?
There are many with that story. I always wonder why they think they won’t be going to hell. After all, isn’t that the bargain Judas made i.e. the lives of the innocent in exchange for money?
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