Posted on 06/30/2006 7:35:59 AM PDT by mware
If it doesn't fly with any American bishops they too should be excommunicated.
I have some disagreements with Catholic theology (chiefly, the praying to saints and the belief that protestants are not actually part of the body of Christ) but I'm glad to see that they are standing up for what's right. Whatever disagreements I may have with them, the RCC almost always takes the right stand and does so publicly without apology. We need more of that in this world.
Sure wish they (American Bishops) would say the same thing to politicians who support abortion.
Not loving and compassionate enough for them, much less inclusive and tolerant and diverse and so on. Better to "enter into dialog" with the wayward politicos . . . and be sure to let them get in a few photo ops receiving communion from the hand of the papal legate. Great for the campaign lit, you know.
Wow you sound like Mahoney or McCarrick just then.
Well done! Speaking the truth to power is precisely where the Vatican needs to be. Excellent news. Now if only some of these ghouls would listen.
Except that, you know, the Vatican doesn't currently KILL people who disagree with them.
and added: "I can bear excommunication. I was raised as a Catholic, I share Catholic values, but I am able to make my own judgment on some issues and I do not need to be told by the Church what to do or to think."
This poor guy sounds like he hasn't been Catholic for a very long time.
I can image a practicing Catholic that says he could bear excommunication.
sorry that should have read, I CAN'T iimage a Catholic saying he could bear excommunication.
How could they???? Giving minority people the truth about how RACIST abortion and birth control are would mean,[OH GOD] giving minorities the right to decide...OH MY GOD HOW WOULD AMERICA SURVIVE THAT???????The liberals only want whats best for america ..[And that includes all the liberal catholics]
What does the term "speaking truth to power" actually mean? Sounds like a Jesse Jackson slogan.
Why don't they start with pedophile priests and the priests who break American laws by harboring illegals? Or do them all at the same time?
Clarification, not criticism:
(1) Catholics don't pray to saints, they ask saints to pray for them.
This is precisely the same thing Protestants do when they ask other believers to pray for them, only Protestants do not believe it is correct to ask believers who are not physically alive to pray for them. Catholics believe it is correct to ask anyone who is alive in Christ, whether physically alive or not, to pray for them.
(2) Catholics do believe that validly baptized Protestants are incorporated into the Body of Christ. When a validly baptized Protestant converts to Catholicism, the Church does not baptize them because the Church considers them to have already been baptized into Christ.
I hope these are useful observations.
They are already in the process of rooting out and eliminating pedophiles.
I find it interesting that you find "harboring illegals" (which no Catholic priest actually does) to be a higher priority than the murder of innocent children.
I can verify this observation. I crossed the Tiber some time ago, and my Methodist baptism was accepted as being part of the Body of Christ.
Ping
If "Destroying human embryos is equivalent to an abortion. It is the same thing" like he claiims then why isn't the Church making the same threat against politicians who support abortion?
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