(And lose all the graces from the Sacraments.)
Monsignor Pope Ping for Our Sunday Visitor column.
The Catholic church is a homosexual/pedofile cabal. It needs to continue to die until it is just a bunch of old buildings with nobody in them.
If the thing you have faith in is a rotting religion, then the devil has already won.
Leave the corrupt institution, keep your faith.
Both will be better off.
The believer in Christ is sealed with the Holy Spirit and is never unsealed. The Christian loses nothing.
Judas never claimed to b3e a stand in for Jesus either.
I don’t care if every previous Pope is exposed. My allegiance is not to any man or institution, but only to Christ crucified and risen, who warned that it would be better to drown with a millstone around your neck than to cause his little ones to stumble. — Patricia Heaton September 1, 2018
Gosh; this is a hard question.
I'd guess that first you'd to have a REASON to stay.
Salvation seems to think there is some kind of magical powers to be found in performing certain rituals.
Perhaps S could convince her.
The hidden minor premise in the writer’s postulation is equating the Catholic Church with Jesus Christ.
Leaving the Catholic Church does not equate with leaving Jesus Christ.
There's the first problem to correct - we entrust our faith to the care of the one in whom we HAVE our faith - Jesus Christ. He will never disappoint or discourage us.
All you good Catholics need to rise up and demand the purging of the corruption, with extreme prejudice. Do it at your local level and work up to the Vatican.
I see it starting in North Hollywood. Way to go! Get Cdl. Mahony and all those he protected prosecuted and jailed.
I see state participation in New Jersey and other states. That’s good, but the lay people of the Catholic church really need to be immersed in this purge.
“If you’re not taking flak, you’re not over the target”
The Church, by virtue of its public suffering, and even in its grotesque error, MUST be doing something right somewhere spiritually, to attract such demonic attention.
Question: I have a friend who says she is leaving the Catholic Church because of the new sexual abuse scandals. What can I say to convince her to stay? — Name withheld
Answer: Begin with empathizing with her anger and grief at the latest revelations of clerical misbehavior. It is the worst sort of betrayal when a priest or bishop sexually harass and abuse their own people.
And just what; exactly; would those be??
John 5:24