Posted on 03/16/2015 4:21:19 PM PDT by NYer
Is pot legal in your state?
Yet, they'll go to the mat defending the immaculate conception. Amazing.
I think you mean Loretta Sanchez, who had dropped her previous name of Loretta Brixey, after losing an election 2 years before running against Dornan.
Well, it nice to know what side you are on. Thanks.
Your posts aren’t making any sense.
To some people, that is the way God indented it.
OK; I hope that trend works out going forward. As a Catholic, I never expected Hispanics to spark any renaissance in the American Catholic Church; in my area many flock to their own storefront churches with married ministers. I don’t even know what denomination they claim.
In my experience Hispanics seem to embrace Catholicism when it provides an educational alternative to public schools for their children; the idea of giving their hard-earned money for any other reason to some guys living in a rectory doesn’t seem to go over well with them.
According to Pew, Mass attendance is the same for Hispanic and non Hispanic white Catholics, but religion is significantly more important to the Hispanic Catholics.
“Latino Catholics and white Catholics, however, report very similar levels of church attendance; 42% of each group say they attend church weekly.”
“There is also a 14-point gap between white, non-Hispanic Catholics and their Hispanic counterparts; 54% and 68%, respectively, say religion is very important in their lives.”
No, you were wrong. Again. You have a strange way of repeatedly failing.
I weigh Mass attendance much more heavily than someone saying religion is important to them; if that had any meaning blacks would probably be the most conservative group in the country.
There is much about blacks that no one can explain, not in their politics, or in their relationship to religion or how they can have obviously disconnected it from God and the bible, it is a total mystery.
But there is real change happening in the Church. It is like the Tea Party. Ground up. I see it happening all around.
And Happy St. Patrick's Day. I'm second generation American. County Cork.
First: War.
Second: Latinos.
Third: Muslims.
Anyone with half a brain can see that the Democrats openly support Sharia law and the slaughter of non-Muslims. Catholics, yes, but also Protestants, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and everyone else of any faith is watching Democrats applauding and defending a global murder machine called Islam. The writing is on the wall, written in blood. And finally some of these fence-sitters are realizing that their blood is next up on the Democrat agenda.
As the Catholic Encyclopedia states, "By the sixteenth century, as evidenced by the spiritual struggles of the Reformers, the image of Mary had largely eclipsed the centrality of Jesus Christ in the life of believers." (Robert C. Broderick, ed., The Catholic Encyclopedia, revised and updated; NY: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1987, pp.32,33)
And which speculates that a further reinforcement of Marian devotion, “was derived from the cult of the angels, which, while pre-Christian in its origin, was heartily embraced by the faithful of the sub-Apostolic age. It seems to have been only as a sequel of some such development that men turned to implore the intercession of the Blessed Virgin. This at least is the common opinion among scholars, though it would perhaps be dangerous to speak too positively. Evidence regarding the popular practice of the early centuries is almost entirely lacking...,” (Catholic Encyclopedia > Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary)
Autocratic presumption excludes the need for actual warrant and conformity to Scripture.
Actually its a web site, with no advertizing etc., not a blog that gets comments or Google AdWords.
Just what is your objection? Do you even understand why blog pimping is censured, and the difference btwn that versus links in comments for substantiation or supplementation? Are you trying to again to find fault after your practice of posting unattributed material and dozens of posts to yourself was criticized? Your criticism was not valid last time, nor is it this time.
The catholic church and politics shows why the catholic church is a dead church. If the catholic church was slightly alive, it would have been excommunicating its apostate members. But because it has lost the ability to do this, this is proof that it has lost being a real church.
I do not care care WHAT 'party' the MORMON church aligns behind; it is STILL a heresy and why any person of Christian or Jewish faith would support it defies the imagination.
Said by both the Axis and the Allies in WWII...
How many did it take to elect Kennedy?
Pelosi?
How many Mormons did it take to elect Harry Reid?
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