The Catholic Church needs to recognise the fact that 90% of those attending their Church are Cafetaria Catholics.
They look at all of the rules and pick the ones they will obey.
Now I am not in any way saying that they should change all of their rules to adapt to the popular vote on which ones Catholics obey, I am only stating a fact.
Catholics use Birth Control, Catholics have abortions, Catholics live together out of wedlock, Catholics divorce, Catholics take Communion without going to Confession ,Some Catholics are Homosexual,
The Church can and should fight for what is right, the problem is that in todays world, the people are picking and choosing what they think is right. Even the nuns.
The Church lets Pelosi and Biden and other do what they like and say nothing, and then they expect ordinary people to do as the Church says. People see this and they do as they please the same as Pelosi and Biden. The Church cannot continue to allow its people who are in the limelight to do one thing and expect the lay people to not do the same.
So the people pick and choose.
It is those Catholics that are wrong - not the Church. They choose the wrong path. Jesus said the path would be hard. The Church always has the doors open. Even the worst can be saved, if they choose to take the path Christ has laid out. As far as Pelosi and Biden? God gives us free will - when they receive communion unworthily, they bring judgement upon themselves. What is new about Catholics - or people of any Christian religion - picking and choosing what they want to believe? It has ever been so. We choose to sin or not to sin.
Where I very much agree is about nuns. They take a vow of obedience. They and our priests and bishops should set the example of holiness and obedience.
Just my uneducated and humble opinion.
God Bless
sneaks
That's why the Catholic Church has lost it's credibility.
The Catholic Church 30 or so years ago should have started excommunicating high profile politicians who held and encouraged views contrary to the dogmatic teaching of the Church.
It's a 2 step process, You send a letter notifying the person his views are in conflict with the Church's- if they persist in those views you excommunicate them. The Church hasn't done that and they have lost credibility with the public. -tom
Incorrect. You're stating a poorly formed opinion, only.
The Church is recognizing this. THAT is why, in this Year of Faith, the focus is to be on the evangelization of those in the pews....as well as those who are not often in the pews.
Source for your statistics, please.