Posted on 04/20/2005 8:41:17 AM PDT by SkyPilot
I ranted to my husband last night (he's such a good listener!) about this.
The Word of God is. Period. The church has no obligation to rewrite the word of God to appease a sinful lifestyle. If those who sin don't like being told they sin, they are free to leave the Church. The Church has an OBLIGATION to remain steadfast.
Sump'n like 'at...
My thoughts exactly! If they want women priests, why don't they just join the Episcopalian Church, or Lutheran or whatever? Why do they have to try to change my church to conform with their skewed views?
And the reason is?
Translated Headline:
Feminist, Homosexual Groups angry that Catholic Church is not embracing apostasy.
...or some other digit...maybe a vegetable?
I think we may be expecting too much from this pope.
Somehow I do not see a major housecleaning in the USA's church. In fact I could just see a catholic priest giving communition to kerry in order to "send a message".
Mark my words, some of these homo-enabler catholics are going to do something to challenge the authority of the pope. It will be a public show in order to demonstrate the weakness of the new pope.
(after they finish saying he is 78 and will die soon, they are going to start saying he is old and senile.)
ping
too conservative for his liking. too tied to orthodoxy.
"I can't think of a better endorsement of the new Pope!"
DITTO THAT!
More proof they made a good choice!
Absent other information, how is this pertinent?
(Personally, the Conclave of Cardinals e-mailed me for my approval prior to sending up the white smoke.)
Let us pray for their conversion of heart and embrace of chastity.
Ewww! If I started my day by looking at two faggots kissing it's bound to be a bad one! :(
because it is one more in the list of people not happy about the decision, as were several people/ groups mentioned in the article.
2 Timothy 3: 1-5
Good choice of verses. Regarding the article, I'm just about ready to do a happy dance. It just gets better and better :)
Well imagine that!
I guess it hasn't occurred to these folks that what they think doesn't matter one iota to the church as an institution.
The Catholic church has roughly 60 million adherents in the U.S. And I use the term "adherents" loosely. That's folks who identify themselves as Catholic. Perhaps half that number actually attend church on a regular basis. Anyway, of that 60 million Catholics, what percentage both agrees with the various outraged groups cited and is active and participating in the church? Maybe 1/10?
OK. So we're at maybe 6 million active U.S. Catholics who give two hoots and a holler what these groups think. And that's probably a very generous number. So out of a total of 1.1 Billion Catholics worldwide, we're talking less than 1%.
These groups are a noisy but very insignificant minority in the church. They could all choose to walk out the door tomorrow, and the church would make up their numbers in less than six months in Africa and Latin America. If they think they're somehow going to be able to "change" the church, they're deluding themselves.
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