[massmike]

I’m Catholic myself,but Bishops like this really make me wonder why I bother anymore......

[Mears]

“Bishops like this really make me wonder why I bother anymore......”

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I don’t bother anymore,but I pray just as much as I ever did.

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[Ransomed]

Because the Sacraments aren’t dependent on whether some bishop is or isn’t a mouthbreather numbnut. It’s not that hard.

Freegards

[Boomer]

I’ve been a lapsed Catholic for a long time. Too many contradictions and who needs all that guilt.

[Slyfox]

Jesus also had a Judas.

Peter said, "Lord, to whom else shall we go?"

So, from the best evidence I am staying put.

[markomalley]

I’m Catholic myself,but Bishops like this really make me wonder why I bother anymore.....

Understandable. It seems that if you agree with what is specifically written in Catholic doctrine, you are subject to “canonical discipline” LOL.

Of course, I’d like somebody to show me where there is an obligation to believe with “divine and Catholic Faith” some political position (that is subject to prudential judgment) taken by an ordinary (or even a bishop’s conference). For that matter, I can’t even see where “religious submission of the intellect and will” is required. But, as with most leftists, the law is what they say the law is and that law is subject to their temporal interpretation. Naturally, the same level of obedience is not required for actual matters of doctrine, such as abortion or sodomite marriage.

This photo illustrates what is wrong (IMHO) with the Church today:

(Taken from, of all places, the Jesuit Church, in downtown Vienna)

Note the glorious past...and the plain present in the foreground. Illustrates what leftists / modernists have been doing to the Church for the past 150 years or so.