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To: churchillbuff
The Vatican is, however, understood to be urging those groups wishing to come into communion with it to demonstrate they are comfortable with Church teaching, and that they aren't motivated soley by disillusionment with the Anglican Communion.

This is an important point but it's also worth noting that there is a significant movement within the Catholic Church which is clearly not comfortable with Catholic teaching in key areas, including sexuality, the all male priesthood, the role of the Pope and other key doctrinal issues such as the bodily Resurrection of Jesus, the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, etc., etc.

I sure hope we're not going to run a fine tooth comb over the new converts while ignoring the usual suspects who continue to openly question Church teaching yet still call themselves Catholic.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't be sure about the whole-hearted assent of the new converts to Catholic teaching. Just that I hope they're not held to a different standard than our home-grown heretics.

Maybe we could do a trade. We can bring in some traditional Anglicans and ship out (i.e. excommunicate) some liberal-modernists in return.

36 posted on 12/25/2005 2:39:51 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
...it's also worth noting that there is a significant movement within the Catholic Church which is clearly not comfortable with Catholic teaching in key areas, including sexuality, the all male priesthood, the role of the Pope and other key doctrinal issues such as the bodily Resurrection of Jesus, the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, etc., etc.

I have a feeling that's all starting to wane a bit. The people I know who are into all that are for the most part over 50 with a few VERY VOCAL standout exceptions. There are a few renegade priests out there leading their flocks astray, but the young men coming through the system are not that way at all. And the people of my parents' generation are starting to get the idea that we in generation X and Y are not touchy feely in any way.

The one thing that I find problematic, is that true theological explainations are waved off as if they are meaningless. Nothing is done strictly to be done that way - there is a reason behind it. Theolgical arguments are thoroughly thought out and noted, documented and otherwise grounded in Scripture and Tradition - for a reason. Getting that through thick skulls is next to impossible.

I do have a few family members, friends and aquiantences who truly do disagree with various teachings, particularly on sexuality, and just won't listen to the theology behind the teachings. It's enough to make you cry.

95 posted on 12/26/2005 5:16:33 AM PST by Desdemona (A belated Merry Christmas to everyone.)
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