Posted on 12/23/2003 8:18:05 AM PST by marshmallow
Letting him retain his faculties for even a day after this is a scandal in and of itself.
There are six things the LORD hates,
seven that are detestable to him:
haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
a false witness who pours out lies
and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
Proverbs 6:16-19
The Church does not offer medical opinions, as far as I know.
The Church is about revealing God and his presence in the world. All Christian marriage, even without offspring (I will not say "fruitless"), is iconic of Christ and the Church. It seems not too much to say that faithful iconography as a vocation is itself a sort of marital fruitfulness. The sacraments exist to reveal God in his simplicity.
What you believe about the Catholic Church is an error. You do not understand the distinction twixt Doctrine and Sin.
It sounds like your new bishop had better be as wise as a serpent as well as innocent as a dove.
Not a true Church doctrine, but rather an approach to sin and the human condition prolomgated by the US Bishops that states that a human soul can be compared to a silken garment, and that any sin is like a rent in that garment.
The idea seemed to be proposed in order to remind us that we were all sinners (all very Biblical) but the practical upshot was that, since any sin was a rent in the garment, than no one had the right judge the sins of another - we were all, after all, imperfect.
While it is all well and good to remind us to remove the beam from our eye before commenting upon the speck in our neighbors, it was simply foolish (and anti-doctrinal) for the Bishops to support a position which said, as a practical matter, that lay people could not and should not distinguish between sins of various gravity.
Yes, there are lots of good ones for anyone who wants a lovely and inspiring desktop screen. Here's the link again since the one I posted above was partially messed up:
Our Lady's Premier Gallery Sacred Images
Here's another example in time for Christmas:
Then, you have always been wrong.
2088 The first commandment requires us to nourish and protect our faith with prudence and vigilance, and to reject everything that is opposed to it. There are various ways of sinning against faith:
Voluntary doubt about the faith disregards or refuses to hold as true what God has revealed and the Church proposes for belief. Involuntary doubt refers to hesitation in believing, difficulty in overcoming objections connected with the faith, or also anxiety aroused by its obscurity. If deliberately cultivated doubt can lead to spiritual blindness.
2089 Incredulity is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it. "Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him."
Our Faith is exoteric and easily knowable - just pick-up a Catechism. When Christian Catholics oppose the Faith they are, depending on their circumstances, a heretic, a schismatic, or an apostate. There are NO "denominations" within Christianity. It is true that some have rejected part or parts of Christian Doctrine (those such as yourself) and they go off and start their own churches. It is ONLY the Catholic Church which has a Divine Origin. We were esta;lished by Jesus (matt 16:18). ALL other denominations were started by men who repudiated part or parts of the Truth.
I know this has been explained to you before. I hope this reminder will be helpful
Is it only Christians you castigate?
If that was true then no marriage occured.
These priests ought to be called on the Chancery carpet and the Bishop can decide for himself if they are informed about the truth they desire to reject.
There have always been wheat and chaff within the Church. We are ALL sinful men. The Church is a hospital for the spiritually sick. WE try and heal 'em, first. It sure is a lot easier, though, just to kick out the ones who sin though
BTW, homosexual activity is only ONE of the "sins crying to Heaven for vengance."
Mebbe, the Church could also excommunicate those who defraud the laborers of their wages. Do you know the other sins crying to Heaven for vengeance and should those foklks also be immediately excommunicated?
If the RC church would really get serious and excommunicate everyone that needs it (~90% of US Catholics including nearly all the politicians), I might have enough respect to re-join them. Then again, most evangelical churches don't excommunicate either. I've only seen it done a few times.
What is it going to take for American Christians to regain their moral seriousness?
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