Pope John Paul will be buried in St. Peter's Basilica on April 8, Catholic cardinals decided on April 4, 2005 as they began to plan the Church's future after the death of the man who led it for a quarter century. (Reuters Graphic
Posted on 04/05/2005 7:16:20 AM PDT by traderrob6
She is just one of scores in the MSM who began promoting this theme within 10 minutes of the pontiffs death. From John Pauls II stance on contraception to euthenasia they lament his legacy of tyrannical conservatism and sing a song of behavioral tolerance and moral relativism.
These people just don't get it.....again. They look at religious doctrine in much the same way as they look at the United States constitution. They believe it to be a "living thing" that should change and grow with the evolving morals of the people and their culture. Nothing is absolute, there are no black and whites only greys to be interpreted as they conveniently fit into an individuals lifestyle. The 10 commandments are carved into clay rather than stone.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Gods law is absolute, it was intended to be. That which was wrong 2000 years ago is indeed still wrong today. Indeed the black and white contrast of good and evil is a theme that runs throughout the bible. No greys, no qualifying subtext or innuendo, just devine law combined with empirical truths meant to spritually govern through the ages.
John Paul II was the Antonin Scalia of the Papacy. The bible like the constitution was meant to be used to derive absolute truth rather than be manipulated as a rationalization for ideologies and change. They are both specific doctrines giving us a strict framework to follow, one for governing our country one for governing our lives.
Being good and righteous and pious are not easy. Religion is anything but convenient. It is understood, the further a culture distances itself from Gods law the more difficult it is for religions to remain relevant. But to modify an interpretation of divine intent in order to make faith more palatible is beyond ludicrous. When a faith bases it's beliefs on public opinion and convenience, it ceases to be a religion and becomes nothing more than a theatrical social group.
Katie Couric sucks.
As a man who was raised as a methodist I can tell you where that would lead. Methodist churches have become nothing more than temples of liberalism. The attitude that religion can be re-formed to fit ones daily wishes leads to failure.
I'm married to a Methodist and can attest to the truth of what you say.
Is she wearing black still? I havn't looked at the The Today Showoff since Bryant Goebbels left
I don't know what the f#@k they're teaching in the church but I'm sick of the priests sitting in the air conditioned, rent free, all bills paid, biggest property owners in the WORLD, with billions in gold,jewels and art telling the world how to give to the f'ing poor........ where is the vow of "poverty" and living on the charity of others....?
I had to raise money for an aunt that was on a mission in Central America as a novitiate while I was in a church with gold relics, and felt a sadness with the hypocrisy, then an anger when I hear the Bishops and Cardinals are paying millions out to hide the homosexual pederasts that they allowed into the church.
There needs to be a general housecleaning, starting at the top of the American Cardinals and Bishops in order to purge this corruption from the church.
I'm a Catholic and feel the church is going crazy trying to be "relevant" to parishioners, when in fact the only need they have is for a strong moral presence and the food of the Bible, the words of God.
Also raised a methodist, and I wholeheartedly agree.
You can bet Katie Couric is not Catholic, being from Eufaula, Alabama.
Pope John Paul will be buried in St. Peter's Basilica on April 8, Catholic cardinals decided on April 4, 2005 as they began to plan the Church's future after the death of the man who led it for a quarter century. (Reuters Graphic
Katherine Anne Couric, better known as Katie Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American television journalist. She was born in Arlington, Virginia.
In 1975, Couric enrolled in the University of Virginia, graduating in 1979.
http://www.planetalbert.com/C%20O%20U%20R%20I%20C%20%20F%20A%20M%20I%20L%20Y.htm Talks about Katic Couric's Eufaula , Alabama roots.
Who wants to tell Katie it's not her job?
Right on - your statements apply to liberal Protestant denominations as well. I'm a Presbyterian and the church (PC USA version) has been totally overrun by liberals. Preaching each Sunday about how awful and selfish America is and then asking me to give the church more money. I just want to stand up and say, "Hey a--hole, I work my a-- off all week. Some of that money goes to your friggin church. So, why don't you shut the heck up."
I really believe sometimes that the reason that most people become Priests / Ministers these days is that they can't hack it in the real world. They are basically from the same cloth as college professors - live off the fruits of America and then rail against it all the time.
It's time people start taking these folks to task.
Never been, but I know some "devout" Methodists and I've been reading about the shoddy state of it for years at American Family Association. (AFA was founded - and still run - by a Methodist minister.)
My impression now is that no church is more replete w/liberal equivocation and sin than Methodists as of now.
My grandmother played the organ for our church since she was 12 years old. In 70 years she only missed a handfull of Sundays. She doesn't go to church anymore. She says God doesn't live there anymore. These days she says she finds God when she works in the garden or walks the dog.
We haven't belonged to or attended church regularly since 1987.
(My grandmother was also a church organist for years.)
Yeah, I was born and raised Catholic, but when asked about my religious affiliation, I say I'm a recovering Catholic. I just started attending mass again, at my wife's behest, and our Church's new monsignor is a very profound speaker.
In much of the reading I've done recently about various religions of the world, the American branches of all of them are very liberal compared to the rest of the world. I really didn't understand this until I remembered that this is the country of the quickie-wedding, the quickie-divorce, the Clinton legacy (75% of teens 13-18 done consider oral sex to be sex), pedophile priests, homosexual ministers, "We're Queer, we're here, get used to it.", and the separation of church and state farce.
It's easy to see why America is becoming more secular and interpretting the 1st amendment as freedom "from" religion.
I hope the Cardinals elect a highly conservative Pope with the will to shake the church. Separate the wheat from the chaff, if you will.
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