[pepperhead]

Ok what if the priest started calling for higher taxes, legalization of pot or the repel of any number of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States? That's not heresy, so should the congregation have to sit there and take it?

[PMCarey]

Ok what if the priest started calling for higher taxes, legalization of pot or the repel of any number of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States? That's not heresy, so should the congregation have to sit there and take it?

Yes.

And then start going to a different church the following week.

My point (again) is that in the Catholic Church, the sermon is not the reason for the Mass. Sometimes you have great sermons. Sometimes they're boring and awful and you forget instantly whatever mumble-juice came out from the priest. Sometimes they're wrong-headed and offensive (but not heretical.) In any case, you're there for the Eucharist and for the Word of God as revealed in the Bible - neither of which a priest can take away from you with any nonsense he spouts.

[rollo tomasi]

I visited my parents Catholic Church a couple of weeks ago and one of the prayers of the faithful was, paraphrasing here:

"God, we pray for our politicians so they can receive guidance and wisdom to support plus maintain public funds for the poor..."

I did not walk out but when the collection plate came around the money I was planning to give to my 6 year old daughter to put in the plate stayed in my pocket.

If this particular Catholic Church in Longwood, FL thinks tax money should be for social programs designed for the poor (So they can be dependent on the tax payer) then the 10's of thousand of dollars taken away from me every year by threat of jail should account for tithing.