[k2blader]

And as long as you refuse the power of [the Pope's] words, your wives will be prostitutes and your children corpses.

I'd like some input from other Catholics. Is this really how you view the rest of us?

[investigateworld]

Your thoughts please.

[independentmind]

NO.

[Modernman]

I'd like some input from other Catholics. Is this really how you view the rest of us?

Let's ask the deacon.

[Campion]

I'd like some input from other Catholics. Is this really how you view the rest of us?

No.

Steven (addressing skellmeyer): Your comment is way out of line, gives scandal, and is a sin against charity. Stop it, because you are not doing anything to help God or his Church in any way, shape, or form. Repent, but first shut off your computer and just go away and pray about it until you settle down.

[B-Chan]

By divorcing the loving husband-wife sexual act from its intrinsic nature in the process of human union and human reproduction, the use of artficial contraceptives reduces the sexual act to just another form of pleasure-seeking play (i.e. entertainment), and thus reduces women to the status of sexual playthings (i.e. whores). Abortion obviously kills children. Therefore, the statement "And as long as you refuse the power of [the Pope's] words, your wives will be prostitutes and your children corpses" is essentially correct.

As to how we Catholics view our fellow sinners and Christians who are not in union with the Church: any group that teaches anything other than what Christ and His Church teach is heretical. Christ and His Church have always condemned artificial contraception and deliberate abortion as being acts of grave depravity -- mortal sins. Therefore, any group that teaches that artificial contraception and/or abortion are acceptable behaviors for a Christian is teaching error -- and is therefore anti-life, anti-Church, and antichrist.

This is not to say that any given individual is antichrist. The Church and its temporal Vicar have the right and duty to approve or condemn any teaching purporting to be that of Christ. The Pope and the Bishops in union with him have the Authority of the Keys, given to them by Our Lord Himself, to bind and loose both in Heaven and on Earth. This authority gives them the right in the Name of Christ to pass judgment on any doctrine of men. As to the spiritual state of any given person who may belong to one of these groups, that is not for any man to judge.