Posted on 11/27/2012 3:44:22 PM PST by NYer
Exactly why I finally had enough and left my Church and found a Christian Church that I honestly enjoy and look forward to Sunday. I leave with a fulfilled heart and soul. I just could not handle the hypocrisy any longer, it seemed pointless. It has saddened me though that the leadership has been so confused in their messaging. People like Pelosi,Kerry and Kennedy’s should have been made examples of and instead are allowed to do what they have done without any repercussions.
Excommunications come through the person’s own diocesan bishop.
Sebelius was excommunicated by her Bishop in Kansas.
Several of these people have been told not to present themselves for Communion.
Don’t lose heart — we welcome you back at any time. Sit down with a priest and get your questions answered.
**Where are the Catholics?**
Busting the doors off my Catholic Church. We are in the middle of a Capital Campaign to build a new one!
Although it is not mandatory, I would imagine that the vast majority of councils have a building they call home. These buildings have mortgage payments and/or property taxes on them that have to be paid. Some of the money that goes to making these payments comes from renting out the building when it is not being used by the council.
If a gay couple requests to use the building for a wedding or reception and is denied, well that's that. The council will be sued, the gay couple will be given the building as damages, and the council will have to start meeting in members' living rooms.
The council might actually become stronger and gain more members over such controversies, but it will be a shame to lose the property and all of the associated memories.
That Jew is Steve Malzberg.
bkmk
When Henry VIII made his move to dump his wife and queen and marry the Boleyn woman, even if it meant dismantling the Catholic Church and murdering Her faithful, you could say that no Catholic bishop went along with that. But you'd still have to face that every Catholic bishop went along with it except John Fisher.
Call it the "Sensus Infidelium".
Our bishops, the 'good' ones as well as the 'bad', are unanimous in their unlawful defiance as regards Canon 915. They --- and we --- are reaping the results of that infidelity.
“Where are the Catholics?”
Out buying ammo.
“Several other writers have argued that so long as these high-profile Catholics carry out anti-Catholic policies and remain in apparently good standing in the Church, many Catholics will conclude that, whatever the noise about these issues, it must be all right to be a Catholic and take positions contrary to what the bishops and Church seem to hold.”
I’m not sure how anyone can argue against this. Any sane first grade teacher knows you can’t teach without public discipline, but not most bishops. Think about this—they are actually bringing a case against the state yet haven’t yet used public discipline on those public Catholics that facilitated and continue to promote the other side in a public manner. It’s like managers that allow some of their players in the home uniform to bat for the visiting team in front of the home crowd. Just gives the impression that how the ball game turns out must not be too important to them.
Freegards
If you don’t mind me asking...
Where is your church?
And, who is designing the new one?
We’re doing a pretty good job filling ours six masses per weekend in Silver Spring Maryland.
Following Canon 915 today would be totally meaningless.
They should do it anyway. But it will mean zilch. It will simply be interpreted as a temper tantrum by stupid little boys. It will mean something to “real Catholics.”
But see, that’s the point. The distinction between real Catholics and fake Catholics real. So for you to fault me for making it misses the point.
The sifting has already taken place. Those who care already know that Sebelius and her ilk are the devil’s spawn and don’t need bishops to tell them that. Those who don’t care won’t miss a stride if the bishops do excommunicate them.
The bishops should do it anyway. But it won’t matter.
It’s over. The evidence of who is a real Catholic and who is not will come out in the fire of persecution. The bishops long ago gave away any de facto authority to excommunicate. In truth they have it but in practice they no longer have it.
Whatever.
The time to clean house was in the 1960s and 1970s. They didn’t. Fault them all you want for that.
The bishops today cannot clean house in any real sense. They can do it but it will have no effect.
They should still do it. But don’t kid yourself that it will clarify anything for anyone except those who already are clear about this stuff—you and me and those like us. For the rest, the bishops cleaning house will mean nothing.
Sorry to disappoint you but looking for a solution from the bishops is hopeless. The time for that has passed.
They should still do it, for the record.
Great cartoon!
Anyone with common sense also knows that once a child is spoiled it’s too late to invoke parental authority.
It still has to be done but it won’t unspoil the child.
A parent, at least, can physically throw the spoiled child out of the house (and go to jail, I suppose). But a bishop cannot physically do that and anything he says to the spoiled CINOs will wash over them like the proverbial water off a duck’s back.
It’s too late. The children are spoiled. Their unspoiled siblings will hear the words but they already know their content. The ones who need to hear won’t.
The bishops should excommunicate anyway.
But it won’t unspoil the children. Sorry, it won’t. To think that it will is a pipedream and we have much more important things to focus on.
I think the Councils of KofC are getting away from that.
For#3
Fat, ugly and stupid is no way to go through life!
I have very little sympathy for Catholics or most religions as a whole on this matter. Most have aligned themselves with the communists with the pro-queer, pro-abortion, anti-business, social justice, wealth redistribution, etc. Now that their ox is getting gored, they want everyone to enthusiastically jump in and save them. Maybe they need to get off their lazy a$$es and start preaching to their flocks what is really in the bible. If they don’t have enough gumption to call Pelosi, Reid, Obama, etc. for what they really are and what they actually stand for, then they’ll get what they asked for....sh!t on, discriminated against, and eventually persecuted just as bad or worse than what the Nazi’s did to the Jews.
What church?
I’m over in Garrett Park.
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