Posted on 12/02/2024 2:21:56 PM PST by daniel1212
Most Catholics in all seven countries want the church to allow Catholics to use birth control.
In most of the countries surveyed, majorities of Catholics also say the church should allow women to become priests.
Opinion is more divided on whether the church should allow priests to get married.
Views on whether the church should recognize the marriages of gay and lesbian couples vary among Catholics in the countries surveyed.
Ten years ago, nearly all Catholics surveyed there (98%) expressed a favorable opinion of Francis, compared with 74% today.
Sadly says??
Evangelicals do not believe birth control is wrong. Evangelical churches do not preach that Catholic Doctrine.
Years ago we called them “cafeteria Catholics”.
They took the stuff they liked and ignored the rest.
What was most amusing was that different Catholics took different things from the cafeteria.
Lol.
Exactly!
Little flock. Have no fear.
You provided the answer for me...
...the council’s significant outcomes.
In other words their Creed is insignificant as to what happened after that.
“churches/synagogues that allow women pastors are or quickly become leftist.”
They get into “feelings” and what “feels good”.
We all know where that leads.
No doubt Francis is working hard to make that happen. Sadly, this is not sarcasm.
I went through this with ECUSA.
Get female priests, you will have to sit through a lot of homilies about their therapy.
You don’t agree with the statements in the Apostles creed?
Or it was not 325 and that had heretical teachings but is now “after that?”
The Church is not and never been a democracy nor should it be.
It would have never lasted this long if it were not for universal truth which is not open to a vote every 2 or 4 years.
How do they define Catholics? Some define themselves are Catholic based on how they are raised.
You don’t agree with the statements in the Apostles creed?
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The Apostles creed is not found in the Bible. The fact that this 4th century statement is the fundamental tenet of the Catholic church, not the Bible, and that all the teachings of Catholicism are based on this creed is what I disagree with.
It’s wrong.
It may not be open to a vote but it certainly is open to the whims of whichever Pope is in charge. Is universal truth really that subjective?
Rather than being " poorly catechised," I am sure most all RCs know the position of their church on this, but besides being able to ignore it, as even proabortion, prohomosexual Catholic public figures are manifestly considered to be members in life and in death by Rome, then a principle in Catholicism is that leadership defines what she means. Which, as V2 exampled, can mean something different than what was historically taught, as TradCaths here also assert.
Yet besides this, people tend to look for the interpretation of the preachers words but how they translate it in their own lives, as faith is indeed shown by actions. (Ja. 2:18) How much more when "the Church is essentially an unequal society, that is, a society comprising two categories of per sons, the Pastors and the flock...the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors." (Vehementer Nos, an Encyclical of Pope Pius X, 1906)
Thus, even granting Teddy K, an ecclesiastical funeral, in prima facie contradiction of Canon 915 - with a eulogy by no less than Obama - (besides Teddy receiving a gracious letter from Ratizinger, read at the funeral) in response to his own impenitent one) then the implicit front-page message to the laity is that such violations of RC doctrine are at least tacitly allowed.
Likewise, rather then RC use of contraceptives being due to deficient catechization, they seem to understand CCC 85 ("The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition, has been entrusted to the living teaching office of the Church alone") to mean according to how leadership widely applies it, ignoring the likes of Cardinal Burke.
See post above.
See my post above.
Perhaps surprisingly, Francis firmly excluded women being allowed to be ordained as priests. - https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252928/pope-francis-explains-to-america-magazine-why-women-cannot-be-ordained-priests
But a former speaker of the House was not ashamed to assert she was, without any censure from leadership.
In any event, the teachings of a faith that is soundly ignored by over 80% of “believers” leaves a lot to be desired.
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Unfortunately, they would involve the vast majority of all Christians period.
Actually, it shows a lack of proper teaching from Scripture.
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