Posted on 09/13/2007 12:41:59 PM PDT by presidio9
Ultimately these “do what you feel like” churches fail. People end up pulling away from God and then not going to church, because they don’t feel like it. In Britian, all of the Protestant churches had gone left, thinking they would be “inclusive.”
However, when people who don’t have faith find a spiritual void, they want structure and discipline. They don’t want to be told to do whatever you feel like.
Jesus never turned anyone away at the table but he did tell people to turn away from sin. He never said “do what you feel like and it’s okay.”
Of course, the libs want religious people to think that by going left, they will “be nicer” or increase membership. In actually, it splinters everyone.
Btw, traditionally, the UCC (United Church of Christ) had been the most anti-Catholic of the Protestant demoninations.
Then there is the Polish National Catholic Church, with about 60,000 members in the US, which objects to Papal Infallibility, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, and the specifically Catholic doctrine of Original Sin. After the schism they became associated with the Episcopal Church in the U.S., but ended the connection because of the ordination of women. This is from Wikipedia. They are definitely a high church, not a scam.
I believe that they are derived, historically, from the Puritans, lots of bad feelings both ways there. Of course these days their theology is barely Christian, I much prefer the Mormons, their heresies (from the viewpoint of a papist), notwithstanding.
Whoa, simmer down.
A "fact error" is a term of art in journalism. It's like perjury on the witness stand; once it's shown, the entire testimony becomes invalid. A j-school student that turns in a paper with even one fact error immediately gets a failing grade for that paper.
What I was telling you is whoever wrote this knew better.
It is newsworthy to their ignorant readers (with minor accomodations made to the truth).
You’re point is well taken, If I didn’t sing in the choir it would be very hard for me to make myself go to mass every week. But people are counting on me, expecting me, and it makes all the difference.
What You [Catholics] Need to Know: Priesthood (Holy Orders) [Catholic-Orthodox Caucus]
What You {Catholics} Need to Know: Celibacy [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
I understand... but I see it the same I see it when people refer to adultery as a “mistake”...
Just like illegals can call themselves "immigrants", but morally and legally they can never be. Words mean things, and we can't all have personal definitions.
Just like illegals can call themselves "immigrants", but morally and legally they can never be. Words mean things, and we can't all have personal definitions.
There.
Fixed it for ya.
I'm holding out for Bishop. I'm not sure I could support my family as a RC priest, but those Bishops seem to have it pretty good.
You should hold out for direct appointment to Cardinal. Why trifle with the little stuff?
It is astonishing to me that the Polish (or Polish Americans) of all people would develop a splinter group which rejected the Immaculate Conception.
It was a tiny minority, and, I conjecture, likely due to some local bishop who objected, and his followers left with him.
No she wasn't. No need to read further, the author is a liar.
I’m going to have someone declare me a millionaire tomorrow. Do you think if I go to the bank they’ll give me wads of cash? I’ve long nurtured a desire to be a millionaire and it’s not fair that other millionaires won’t recognize me as one of their own just because I don’t have as much money as they do.
I was just thinking that Mexico is probably the only nation that holds Mary in a higher regard than Poland does.
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