Cardinal: see the goodness in lives of people who cohabit

Catholic Herald ^ | October 24, 2014 | Madeleine Teahan

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Cardinal Vincent Nichols has said that the lives of Catholics who cohabitate outside of marriage are “marked by real goodness”.

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Ping

[Yossarian]

Sin? What’s that?

Jesus died on the cross just for the heck of it, you know!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is the Bible still the handbook of this outfit?

[the OlLine Rebel]

Oh geesh. And to think I just made a comment today about a certain doctor and how he shouldn’t be shacking up. It’s also true of the one nurse. All the better to spread disease.

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Closet Episcopalian Alert.

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Wheeeeeee!

[Jim from C-Town]

“This is especially true with regard to individuals who, for example, have decided to live together without marriage, or for Catholics in second marriages. These realities are part of their journey in life and while not in keeping with the pattern the Lord asks of us, their lives are often marked by real goodness. Rumor has it Hitler loved dogs and was great with children. Does this dip$hit have a point?

[Darksheare]

*facepalm*

[CdMGuy]

I thought we had some bad Bishops, Archbishops and Cardinals here in the US. However, Western Europe has a near monopoly of Catholic and mainline Protestant clergy who don’t seem to know their ass from a hole in the ground. I am a sinner but at least I know what is sinful. So many of these clergy have decided to make up their own rules.

[jwalsh07]

Won’t be long now before we are requested to see “the goodness” of scissors in the neck of partially born babies rather than dismembering in the womb. Signed, A disgruntled Catholic.

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Pope Francis giving Nichols the red hat on February 22, 2014

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Jesus died on the cross just for the heck of it, you know!

And these RC officials bandy His Name around vainly and frequently. Like they own a local Jesus franchise...

[cherry]

unbelievable isn’t it...I suppose we need to do away with the sacrament of confession, since none of us are sinners, and we have real goodness in our immorality...

[Ouchthatonehurt]

I’m getting the feeling that a good number of Bishops see devout Catholics as “the problem.”

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I suppose we need to do away with the sacrament of confession...

Well this tradition was started by somebody. Somebody else can end it just as easily, I suppose.

[Theodore R.]

Is he trying to get a new stream of contributions?

[married21]

There are four outcomes of promiscuity outside real marriage:
live babies,
dead babies,
broken hearts
and hardened hearts.

Cohabiting couples, IMHO, always seem to contain someone whose heart is breaking because they would like to be officially married. And thus, by definition, the other person is hardening his or her heart against the sincere yearnings of someone they purport to love.

And, of course, there is plenty of evidence that children of cohabitors are far more at risk than children of married parents for abuse, instability, poverty.

Is there some goodness in cohabiting families? Could be. But there is also sin in this condition of life. And if the couple is truly Christian, they will know that, if they are truly honest with themselves.

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Is he trying to get a new stream of contributions?

Is it a fact that, for a modest annual fee, the Vatican is coming out with Express VIP Service Lanes in and out of Purgatory beginning next year?

[NKP_Vet]

Most people that shack up are doing it for welfare payments. They have no intention of getting married in or outside a church. Obama funds dry up for them. Better to shack up and lie to the government and keep the welfare payments coming in.