Catholics in U.S. Keep Faith, but Live With Contradictions

NY Times ^ | April 11, 2005 | DEAN E. MURPHY and NEELA BANERJEE

[sinkspur]

I suspect it's more your 24 hours. You receive Eucharist at 8 in the morning, then again 12 hours later, then you better wait a full 12 hours your personal time before receiving again, no matter how many time zones you cross! Or that's how I would feel obliged to interpret it for my personal doings.

One is permitted to receive the Eucharist at, say, a Saturday morning Mass, then receive again at the anticipated Sunday Mass on Saturday evening.

Or, one is permitted to receive at the Saturday Vigil Mass, then receive again on Sunday.

One may receive at different Masses on the same day or the same Mass (such as the Sunday Mass) on different days.

One may also, for instance, receive the Eucharist at a daily Mass, then receive again at a wedding Mass the same day.

[JohnnyZ]

Your diocese must be in perfect shape if the bishop is focusing on minutiae like this.

Well, it was only one thing in the revision of Liturgical Norms. But it was in bold. And made me very happy. Can't wait 'til he moves on to clapping in church and heretical deacons!

Your abortion-loving hero Rudy popularized broken window theory -- take care of the little things and the greater things will build from there.

[sinkspur]

Can't wait 'til he moves on to clapping in church

Did you hear all the clapping at the Papal funeral? Should that be banned too?

(Clapping is nowhere in the new liturgical norms. Holding hands at the Our Father is also optional.)

[supercat]

I suspect it's more your 24 hours. You receive Eucharist at 8 in the morning, then again 12 hours later, then you better wait a full 12 hours your personal time before receiving again, no matter how many time zones you cross! Or that's how I would feel obliged to interpret it for my personal doings.

So Catholics on the ISS can't have an hourly communion mass? >:*3

[delacoert]

many, like the young woman in this article, are making a mockery of Catholicism

Hardly. The LA Times is mocking Catholicism! It's no big trick to to find a bad example. Don't get your eye off the ball - a dangerous part of the liberal agenda is to marginalize Christianity.

[delacoert]

Oops. LA NY Times

[Shethink13]

She attends Mass every Sunday but has had two children out of wedlock. She thinks abortion is murder but chafes at the Vatican's ban on birth control.

What's she worried about the ban on birth control for? She obviously isn't using any or she wouldn't have two kids out of wedlock.

[Aquinasfan]

Here is why we avoid so called 'catholic' schools, in the words of a 'catholic school' student:

Ugh. That's why we're homeschooling, and when the time for college comes, we'll only consider financing tuition for a mandatum college.

[mewzilla]

Doesn't sound like they're keeping the faith to me. Around here we call'em cafeteria Catholics. And most of the Catholics we know fit that description.

[tdewey10]

The NYT generally interviews a lot of different folks with lots of different points of views, and then only uses the interviews that prove their point. They do the same thing with polls, only citing the ones that support their uber-liberal talking points.

If they ever call, do yourself a favor and hang-up on them.