Perhaps, but I was self-conscious enough about dressing different from everybody else... I did not need a smart-aleck telling me that I could not walk into my Father's house! It wasn't very long after this that that church started posting the names of those who (in the priest's opinion) did not pay full tithe. How would he know what each family was making? I did not wait to see if my name was posted (I always put cash, don't believe in getting a tax deduction for my donations in church).
"It wasn't very long after this that that church started posting the names of those who (in the priest's opinion) did not pay full tithe."
Help me out here - I didn't know that tithing was a requirement in Catholic churches. I'm a practicing Catholic and I've never heard of tithing as either a doctrine or a practice.
All I could find in a quick peek at the Catechism is this, "From the very beginnings Christians have brought, along with bread and wine for the Eucharist, gifts to share with those in need. This custom of the collection, ever appropriate, is inspired by the example of Christ who became poor to make us rich. Thise who are well off, and who are also willing, give as each chooses. What is gathered is given to him who presides to assist orphans and widows, those whom illness or any other cause has deprived of resources, prisoners, immigrants, and, in a word, all who are in need."
It has always been my practice, and that of other Catholics I know, to give what we could afford and not set a certain amount or percentage. If that is what your priest was asking his parishioners to do (set a percentage of income or some other such scheme), I'm thinking he was not correct to do so. I'm not a Church scholar or theologian, just someone with 40-plus years as a Catholic and I've never been asked to tithe at any parish I attended - and I don't know anyone who has been. I'm sorry you had that experience, but I guess it puzzles me. I would think that the parishioners themselves (if not the bishop) would have brought that practice to a screeching halt.
PS - Keep up the good pro-Life work.
Your hurt feelings really don't matter. Let leftists whine about their feelings.
Pushing, laying hands on, a priest is simply wrong.
Unless a priest is actually trying to kill or physically injure you there is no reason to ever put your hands on him.
This kind of behavior is simply vile, disgusting, beneath contempt.