This is why I quit the ping list for Catholics. We are to walk, hand in hand, to God with other Christians. Putting up with the angry back and forth about who said what and which religion is best, and how the Catholic Religion is superior is all bs to me.
Having said that, I kissed the ring of Pope John Paul II in 1987, I have been a Catholic my whole life, and have had much trouble going to church knowing that the Catholics for the most part vote hard-line Democrat regardless of abortion and their tendency to love to control the individual. I went to my Roman Catholic priest and wanted to talk about my apprehensions and do you know what he told me? He said, that it is not a good idea to bring up abortion since everyone has such different views and the church is about inclusion. He is straight from Poland and told me that when Communism fell, it was a very difficult time because his uncles and parents were afraid that they would have to go out to look for a job. He also said that Solidarity was unions, and we have a duty to stand with unionization. The priests before him weren’t much better.
Now, I believe I am a good Catholic. I believe in Jesus Christ, the son of God, the whole apostles creed. But this bickering and stuff is bs and the Catholics in America are mostly brainwashed with unionism, this uncanny ability to be ultra-liberal under the guise of compassion, and extremely uninformed.
You should stop the bickering if you post the threads with simple words of, “I am with you, brother.”
When the Pope was in Avignon, some people complained. Catherin of Siena kicked butt.
Also, while “I’m more better than you,” is indeed a pain, it’s good to use the opportunity to say what we really teach and what its implications really are.
If one sees purgation as a gift then all this stuff about denying the efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ is for a moment contradicted. People will keep on reading or consulting bad sources and think thy know the teaching of the Church. But we can still try to speak the truth in love.
Good morning jenk. Read your comments. Thank-you for making my early morning, with my first cup of coffee about meeting Blessed Pope John Paul II in 1987.
All this fighting among Christians and in-fighting among Catholics is not going to help us as we have to deal with two new threats, radcial secularism and radical Islam.
Christians, Catholics, we NEED to love one another.
@jenk, see you over at the Mark Levin Show thread tomorrow night. :)=^..^=