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Your reply does not mean that you are a Catholic. It means that you are an apostate from Catholicism as was Luther as was Calvin as have been many people through the centuries.

We have very few actually Catholic colleges in the United States today. The few are mostly colleges created since the 1967 Land o'Lakes Conference organized by the regrettable Fr. Hesburgh of Notre Dame at which all but 6 existing Catholic colleges declared themselves secular. Don't believe the fund-raising propaganda.

Regrettably few of our grammar schools or high schools are very Catholic either. Perhaps you were never properly evangelized in the first place.

I am genuinely sorry that you no longer consider yourself Catholic because of abuses you have seen.

Your posts are those of one who is not Catholic and you say that you do not consider yourself one. You seem to be correct in that respect. I would, however, repeat that, if you had fifteen years of actually Catholic education, you would know that merely being divorced would not make it sinful to receive the Eucharist.

It becomes easier to respond to posts when the poster gives some relevant details as you now have. You do not say whether you believe that the Eucharist is the Real Presence. If you don't believe that, why do you care who receives, having left the Church?

I would, however, repeat that, if you had fifteen years of actually Catholic education, you would know that merely being divorced would not make it sinful to receive the Eucharist.

Of course, I know that. I was using the divorced Catholic example as shorthand for "divorced and remarried" Catholic.

I also know all about the big loophole that allows divorced and remarried Catholics like the Kennedys get around the prohibition from receiving the Eucharist by having the Church declare that their marriages (even twenty year marriages with children) were null and void from the inception.

As far as Martin Luther is concerned, I am currently reading a good book that I recommend to all who want to learn more about the history of the Catholic Church. Its called "The Bad Popes" by E. R. Chamberlin.

If you want to know where Luther was coming from, you need to know about the abuses of the Church during that time.

http://www.cpats.org/CPATSAnswerDirectory/Answers_to_Questions/AnyMoreBadPopes.html

I await your defense of Pope Alexander VI (aka Rodrigo Borgia) or Leo X (aka Gio de Medici).