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To: ebb tide

I am not a theologian, just a run of the mill Catholic. But I hate when the church doles out its services as a reward. Jesus does not do that. He often rewarded sinners. As far as I am concerned the church should not be in the business of limiting the path to god.

I understand if the church feels that people are not taking a sacrament seriously, you may withhold because its not a sacrament if people don’t take it seriously. Hence Pre-Cana showed up, as a way to get people to take marriage seriously.

But to punish people for one sin by withholding a separate sacrament is just not in the biblical teachings. And lay Catholics really have no right to judge each other. God holds that job for himself.


4 posted on 09/27/2017 6:25:07 AM PDT by poinq
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To: poinq
But to punish people for one sin by withholding a separate sacrament is just not in the biblical teachings.

Continual fornication outside of sacramental marriage is not just "one sin".

5 posted on 09/27/2017 6:33:16 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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