If there’s a celebrity in Hollywood who attends Mass 4x/week, we’d love to know who it might be. Mel kinda blew his orthodoz Catholicism, so who’s left ?
I’m not a celebrity, and I don’t play one on TV, but I try to get to Mass every day. Usually works out to about 4 days outta 7...
I was thinking about that myself... but then isn't being a Catholic include alcoholic, prideful sinners.
I thought that if a person was truly repentant, attoned for his sins by taking the penalties for his actions, asking forgiveness to those he sinned against and finally didn't repeat the sin when given the opportunity to do it again.... this would place him at one with the Lord and he can stand as a man with Christ.
It seems that Mel was and still may be a Catholic, so why trash the guy? He tried to be a "good" Catholic.
Which is a lot more than can be said about me. I walked away without looking back and took a couple decades to be brought back to Christianity through a true friend and brother. I thought that the whole point of Christianity was belief in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, that his death was somehow an atonement for my sins and that the only way to salvation is through a faith in God and that he is the only reason I am here on this earth and to honor that gift.
I am still not a good Catholic or Christian. I suck at forgiveness, have pride, allow matters of this world to supersede matters of my Lord, am lazy and hypocritical. I am just hoping and praying that somehow the Lord finds it in his heart to forgive me... but I don't think questioning Mel's faith is very helpful.