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.
They can “want” all day long.
They don’t make the rules in that club.
NO! AND NO!
Rome has managed to shrug off Prots and Iron Maidens, so I doubt that 'many' Catholics' wishes will have much effect either.
And before the end of John, an ANGEL had to tell John to write to seven ERROR FILLED 'Catholic' churches!
Great teaching retention so soon after Christ's resurrection!
HMMMmmm..
More evidence of someone poorly catechized...
5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses."
6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: "Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. 8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? 11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are."
12 The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. 13 When they finished, James spoke up. "Brothers," he said, "listen to me. 14 Simon has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles. 15 The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:
16 "'After this I will return
and rebuild David's fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild,
and I will restore it,
17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
even all the Gentiles who bear my name,
says the Lord, who does these things'
18 things known from long ago.
19 "It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21 For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath."
The apostles and elders, your brothers,
To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia:
Greetings.
24 We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. 25 So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul— 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. 28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Farewell.
30 So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter. 31 The people read it and were glad for its encouraging message. 32 Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers. 33 After spending some time there, they were sent off by the believers with the blessing of peace to return to those who had sent them. [34] 35 But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.
When did ‘praying the rosary’ become a thing?
We’re up to three...
As far as women priests, it’s not gonna happen. What the ppl want has never mattered much to the hierarchy because Catholicism isn’t a populist religion. If Catholics don’t like the rules, they’re free to leave.
Means nothing. My liberal daughter was baptized Catholic, made her First Communion and attended Mass regularly growing up. Now she claims she’s Wiccan. 🤣
I know, right? It’s also annoying.
MYOB. Worry about your fellow…whatever you are.
Sure, Jan.
Freepers are blessed to have you as such an esteemed spiritual being who can enlighten us Catholics about “The Truth,” otherwise known as Daniel’s version of it. 🤣
While i wish they would be openly excommunicated (they are considered to have excommunicated themselves), one must remember that Jesus came for all - sinners and saints and that this would be in the community HE founded.
Shunning out the sinners, even the egregious ones, leaves no room for them to repent - and as long as there is life, there is a chance they might repent.
oh?
1 Corinthians 5:4-5 niv
4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus, 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
Do Catholics ever do any more bible study after they’ve been initially catechized?
It seems that POORLY and/or IMPROPER catechism gets the blame for those members who do not publicly toe the line taught by Rome.
ALL of the friends I’ve had who are Catholic practiced birth control. The husband of one couple was literally within days of being a full-fledged priest when he met “the one”.
The errors of the churches in Revelations is that of individual churches, not of the Church as a whole. If the Church as a whole is not infallible then how do we even know what is Scripture and what is not? This is the dilemma of the canon of the Bible that Protestants cannot answer.
Thus we see that the New Testament church was hierarchical, not democratic or synodal. The gathered ministers united with Peter spoke with the authority of the Holy Spirit. It was to this instruction that "The people read it and were glad for its encouraging message." Let me ask you a question, did this instruction from the apostles and presbyters carry the authority of the Holy Spirit before or after it was recorded in Acts? Clearly before. The Protestant reformers and their followers are much like those described in Acts: "We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said."
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