Posted on 06/13/2008 6:38:38 AM PDT by camerakid400
LOL!
You are welcome to your Roman Catholic dogma - it is not for me and I very much doubt if it is for President Bush either - which was the essence of this thread.
Please don't bother sending me anymore posts - I will not be reading them. Life is too short.
Goodbye.
Another voice crying in the wilderness.
“You just don't give up do you?”
I try not to. You know, the whole thing about not being a quitter and all.
“You are welcome to your Roman Catholic dogma...”
Thank you, and perhaps after this exchange, you will be a little more careful before [mis]representing Catholic teaching.
“...- it is not for me...”
Your loss.
“...and I very much doubt if it is for President Bush either - which was the essence of this thread.”
That, I don't know. However, Mr. Bush seems to get a better time of it from the pope and Catholic bishops than from the leaders of his own denomination.
sitetest
I understand, it just appears to me that often times all the effort that they are putting into keeping the young child, (under 7) amused takes away from the parents ability to participate in Mass. So much so, that I suspect that if the Priest celebrating Mass were to announce that President Bush had in fact converted the Pope to Methodism, they would not notice. LOL!
“I understand, it just appears to me that often times all the effort that they are putting into keeping the young child, (under 7) amused takes away from the parents ability to participate in Mass.”
Yeah, but we still gotta keep trying.
“So much so, that I suspect that if the Priest celebrating Mass were to announce that President Bush had in fact converted the Pope to Methodism, they would not notice. LOL!”
LOL!! Could be!
sitetest
Perhaps so, particularily in the case of SMU and the Presidential Library. But I must say from time to time during the past 8 years I have seen plenty of stories concerning Catholic Bishops and Priests who have attacked the President, with particular reference to Iraq.
Although many in the Church disagreed with him on the prudential decision to go to war in Iraq, he has had warm relations with much of the hierarchy literally from his first week in office. His first official guest for dinner at the White House was the then-Archbishop of Washington, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick. They worked together to put together a ground-breaking voucher program for the public school children of Washington, DC.
Although the initiation of the war strained these warm relations, they did not break them. As well, though the Church and the president parted ways for a while on Iraq, now they're on the same page. The prudential judgment of the top of the Church hierarchy now believes that it is incumbent on the United States to stay in Iraq until the United States has successfully helped the Iraqi people restore order, put down the terrorists, and create at least a rudimentary democratic state.
That there are individual priests who will take after the president is certainly true. We had one in my parish, and his over-the-top comments in his homilies nearly drove me to register in another Catholic parish nearby.
Nonetheless, I don't think that these priests were quite as abusive as his own Methodist minister here in Washington, DC. The reports that I've read say that the minister of his former church in Washington would personally excoriate him from the pulpit while the president sat in the pew.
If he was received into full communion with the Catholic Church, he might view the [at times, poor] treatment he got from the Catholics as a respite from what he's received from his own Methodists.
sitetest
Well, you are apparently privy to reports that I have not seen.
tag change.
ditto
Nothing I didn’t read on FR.
So far I have talked to a couple of Methodist ministers, my brother is one, who have not heard of the President being excoriated from the pulpit while he was personally in attendance, but still checking.
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