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“I attended catholic grade and high school and did not care about abortion because God was not real to me. When I became a Christian and read the bible I realized God cares about each of us and what we do, my life changed. Lots of people say they believe in God, but don’t live like it, like I did. The fear of The Lord is the beginning of wisdom, is so true”

So you were ignorant of your faith? The Catholic Church teaches no abortion for any reason. You didn’t know this? And why didn’t you ever read the Bible? And for your information, Catholics were the first Christians. Your letter is typical of a lapsed Catholic. Totally ignorant of their own faith. Did you ever believe in the Real Presence at the Eucharist. Did you understand it?

My school or church never talked about abortion once. We were not allowed to read a bible. We were told only priest can interrupt what God says. I came from a very dysfunctional church. The two priest sat every evening at the church bowling alley drinking. They were both alcoholics. Every sermon was hell fire and damnation. We were terrified of them. The nuns were mean and the priest whipped the boys if they did anything wrong. There was a lot of abuse, physical. It wasn't until I was an adult when I found out why the nuns were so mean. They were were hungry all the time. I don't know how this was possible but my aunt was friends with two nuns and would help them out.

As far as my faith being real. The priest and the nuns represented God so I figured He was really angry and did not like too many people.

I'm not a lapsed catholic. I am a Christian by choice. Now I know who God really is and what he expects of me. Over half the catholics I know are proabortionist and see nothing wrong with homosexuality. My daughterinlaw is a big liberal. I ask how she can go against her faith and what her bible says and she says the bible is outdated and not meant for today and wrong. She says her priest never talks about these things. The priest I know are democrats. They say feeding the poor is more important than abortion or homosexuality.

You sound really angry that I don't follow your faith. I know it's not my church that will get me into heaven. I know Jesus died for my sins and that He loves me. I did not know that until I was 26 yrs old.