How ever did you manage to find such poorly catechized Catholic? Did you throw a stone? Catholics are very angry over the state the faithful were left in following so many of the misguided changes implemented by those who misunderstood Vatican II. We also are angry that people who are very bold to say their opposition to Church teaching “cough, abortion, cough.” self label as Catholic and then become “catholic” media darlings. We are angry at the priests and religious and lay teachers who pass on outright pagan practices to our children and try to put a Christian gloss over them. Lipstick on a pig does not change the pig. We are angry that priests ignored, violated and twisted the Church’s very clear teachings on sexual morality and damaged the bodies and souls of so many innocents. And we are angry at the Bishops who did nothing or at worse aided and abetted this.
But things are changing. And this change will result in a smaller Church. Small but more robust one. We will have fewer priests. But these priests will truly be godly men. The same hold trues for religious orders. We will always have dissenters. Because even though they have a lot of other religions or non religions to go to they don’t care about that. They care about destroying the Church and making it over in their image. They are agents of Satan.
And within 25 years I predict we will have a major Schism. And the heresies that brings about this Schism will be brought about in great part by the following:
1. Denying the uniqueness of Christ.
2. Endorsement of perverse sexual practices/
3. Endorsement of abortion.
4. Elevation of the creature above the creator, especially of the envirnoment.
I’ve run into all these issues at my local parish and among Catholic friends. There is nothing from the pulpit on these things. There is a lot of adult ed, like half-day retreats and scripture study series, but a lot of people never do any those things, and I don’t think they really cover that, anyway.
There are other Catholics who are well-informed at the same parish. But they are not angry at the less-informed people, nor at the clergy. They want to be welcoming and not discourage anyone who may have qualms about Church teaching. And sometimes the deacons and the associates say something from the pulpit that effectively “afflicts the comfortable”. You would not hear it from the pastor, though.
Nice to see someone’s awake in y’all’s sphere.
that will not be a schism. Anyone who accepts any one of the 4 points you said, is no longer Christian. You cannot say Christ was just one of many gods and remain Christian. You cannot endorse abortion and remain Christian. These folks who do that can join the ECUSA, while we will gladly welcome the true traditionalist Anglicans