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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; Dutchboy88; metmom
The existence of non-practicing Catholics, or nominally Catholic institutions doesn’t change this fact.

However, Rome overall counts and treats such nominal or worse RCs as members in life and in death, even notorious public sinners who would be forbidden to have church funerals by canon law if they would be a scandal to the faithful. Evidently they are not, or the faithful are the majority liberal.

75 posted on 03/16/2013 5:14:02 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

Apparently, there are plenty of nominal Catholics. Generally, the Church let’s the weeds grow along with the wheat. It isn’t the Church’s job to condemn.

But regarding public sinners and scandal, the clergy have been lax for some time.


78 posted on 03/16/2013 5:24:40 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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