Posted on 04/17/2005 1:53:52 PM PDT by madprof98
When the shepherd is this far astray himself, it's hardly surprising that the sheep are prey to the wolves.
Those who don't agree with the Catholic stand on issues should find a denomination more suitable to their beliefs instead of telling the Catholic church it has to change. By the way, I am not Catholic.
Frankly I don't see why their opinons matter whatsoever.
They left. Goodbye, and ADIOS.
Everything after BUT is Barbra Striesand!
Gee, I wonder if Pope John Paul II cared much about American opinion "polls". A church that changes it's doctrine according to the whims of it's members, isn't much of a church.
If they do attend mass, then they should leave.
The church offers a free service. They have no right to complain.
So, exactly which sins does she believe Christ died for?
"I don't believe religion should ... like ... tell us what to do and stuff," she said. "It should be like a whadyacallit ... a smorgasbord ... where you get to pick and choose the things you wanna do and the things you don't. Like killing your babies and stuff like that."
"The church has helped me with some decisions in life," said Ranc, 36, of Voorheesville. "But I don't always agree with everything they say. I think women have the right to become priests, and that priests have the right to get married."
"Never mind that far greater minds than mine have examined those issues and cast them down as official doctrine. I think we should be able to vote on Right and Wrong."
Ranc is among a number of Catholics in the Capital Region who believe the church is out of touch with its flock on a number of moral and social issues.
Ranc is among a growing number of Catholics in the Capital Region and elsewhere who are increasingly out of touch with their religion, preferring some social rubberstamp to an inflexible, absolutist doctrine that represents an anchor amid the storm.
A Times Union/NewsChannel 13 poll conducted Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday by the Siena Research Institute found about 88 percent of local Catholics support the use of contraceptives by married couples, 34 percent support gay marriage, and 79 percent say abortion should be allowed in at least some situations.
Note how homo marriage is slipped in between the majority positions, even though it has about 1/3 the support.
Ping to self for later pingout.
Don't like it?
Go to HELL!
There are all the freaks, gays, aborted people, etc.
Amazing these people don't leave and instead want the RCC to mold to THEM. This really is the ME culture.
LOL! Seems that the flock is out of touch with the Church on a number of moral and social issues.
aborted people = people that aborted their children
corectamundo
It says she goes to mass every week. I have run into weekly mass attenders who have the same attitude about gay marriage, priests married, abortion, and etc. I am the opposite. I do not go to mass every week (and yes I feel guilty) but believe in the catechism of the church on nearly every issue.
The thing I can never figure out is why people who believe that they hold the truth and the truth isn't in the Catholic Church (which it must not be since they don't agree with what the Church teaches) don't cease to be hypocrites and quit calling themselves Catholic and go and join a denomination that teaches what they believe is true - plenty of choices offering just what they believe.
These polls are nothing more than "john Paul II" control.
The left fears that people may find their way back to the church. By spining to the left as many of the ignorant catholics, when the new pope is named REGARDLESS of who it is, the left will be able to write countless articles where they says "catholics are ALARMED" at conservative turn of the church.
Mark my words, the NYT probably already has the anti-pope articles written, they just need the name fo the person.
(the NYT will probably be shocked shocked I say, at the anti-homosexual bias of the new pope.)
You can't be faithful and disobedient at the same time. Obedience is one of the hallmarks.
I don't get it either.
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