Posted on 09/18/2022 6:10:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
Reach out to the marginalized, ordain women, engage the youth.
Those were among the themes that emerged from a survey of North Jersey Catholics released last week by the Archdiocese of Newark, spiritual home to 1.3 million worshippers in Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Union counties.
In hundreds of in-person and online listening sessions this year, more than 15,000 local Catholics said the church needs to make fundamental reforms to become welcoming to women, LGBTQ parishioners, immigrants and the young people who have increasingly strayed from religious life.
"They believe that the Church is out of touch today," said a 39-page summary of the findings, released by the archdiocese.
(Excerpt) Read more at njherald.com ...
The lefties are the ones who are out of touch with the church.
Confirmation bias.
Discipleship doesn’t change the Bible to fit the people; it changes the people to fit the Bible.
Not this Catholic!!
I wouldn’t believe a word they said.
God doesn’t determine right and wrong based on the latest opinion polls.
Of course they do.
“Nighty-nite, baby” Tobin is their supposed “shepherd”.
Does that include engaging the black youths? The ones you so fervently love to slaughter through your unswerving support for unrestricted abortion? The ones you build gates and hire guards to keep out of your communities, at least the ones not slaughtered by your bloodlust? Those youth?
Mark this: If the Church continues for long with this Pope or, later, with one of his acolytes, the Catholic Church is bound to undergo a period of schism. It will then follow the same terrible dark path — the road to Hell — blazed by the Anglican, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Methodist and Episcopal Churches.
So, not Catholics.
Sound more like Lutherans.
These particular Catholics are not Christian. I mean, they are free to believe whatever they want, but female ordination and homosexual “marriage” are not in accordance with scripture. We are commanded to not associate with people who claim to be Christian but who engage in sexual immorality.
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.
People are supposed to be conformed to Jesus Christ, not “the Bible”. Protestants assume that the Bible is the Christian Owner’s Manual, and that our job as Christians is to follow the directions therein. It isn’t.
Sure the ones that go to church when their mother dies or cousin gets married.
Imagine if you will a world where an Archdiocese spent donated money (or laundered Fed money) to ask this question on an opinion survey.
They are Catholic in Name Only.
This is nuts.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
Well said.
Fitting God to their human view, to make themselves feeeeeel better.
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