I’m not going to get into the Catholic faith because I’m certainly not an expert on it. What I do know of it, there are things I don’t really agree with.
But what I will say, is what I see is maybe a problem even with denominationalism or church doctrine, any church doctrine that, in my view, would supersede or take precedence over the overwhelming mercy and grace of God and Jesus Christ.
I don’t say that to disrespect your priest or anyone else. And by those same standards I understand why such a statement would be made.
At the same time, if ANYONE is going to hold it against someone because they’ve sinned, or backslid, or someone else in their family backslid, well join the club, in terms of none of us are perfect.
I guess in that sense, politics and “religion” don’t go hand in hand because religion in that sense seems tied in legalism, church doctrine, and being still in bondage in a sense of “do not this and do not that”.
I tend to believe more in the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ that offered living water, i.e. eternal life to the woman at the well who’d been married 5 TIMES and who lead most of the people in her town to believe on Him as Messiah than I do in saying, “Don’t vote for him because he’s been divorced.”
But that said, Reagan indeed protected freedom, religious liberty, and to me he exhibited some qualities of a Godly leader.
“But that said, Reagan indeed protected freedom, religious liberty, and to me he exhibited some qualities of a Godly leader”
That was my point
I’ll add this quote from Sheen:
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
Fulton J. Sheen