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To: Jorge
"Should the Catholic schools also ban the children of divorced parents, since divorce is also prohibited according to Church teachings?"

From the Cathecism:

"1651 Toward Christians who live in this situation, and who often keep the faith and desire to bring up their children in a Christian manner, priests and the whole community must manifest an attentive solicitude, so that they do not consider themselves separated from the Church, in whose life they can and must participate as baptized persons:


They should be encouraged to listen to the Word of God, to attend the Sacrifice of the Mass, to persevere in prayer, to contribute to works of charity and to community efforts for justice, to bring up their children in the Christian faith, to cultivate the spirit and practice of penance and thus implore, day by day, God's grace.161"

You completely miss ~to cultivate the spirit and practice of penance and thus implore, day by day, God's grace.161"~

I can only think this is willfull on your part.

The child's mother must, if she is to in her own words which I don't believe are in the article posted, regain her faith and practice it, renounce sin and the position of the Church has not changed.

If you have attended Catholic school, you will find that the blatant sin is not paraded willfully. Charity and Justice also deal with discernment.





188 posted on 09/02/2003 6:28:05 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: OpusatFR
Can practicing homosexuals take the sacraments? (Excuse the ignorance of this question. I assumed the answer is no and wondered how the mother explains that to the daughter).
191 posted on 09/03/2003 1:04:37 PM PDT by tuesday afternoon
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