Quite interesting the number of Catholics who wade into a thread like this and treat it as a blanket bash of their church.
That's because it is, all the way from the "Whore of Babylon" garbage to the "Constantine founded the Roman institution" garbage to the "Catholics foisted this health care stuff off on the rest of us".
Bart Stupak calls himself a Roman Catholic.
So does John Boehner.
I rest my case.
Quite interesting the number of Catholics who wade into a thread like this and treat it as a blanket bash of their church.
Tell ya a little secret about Catholics. A whole lot of us will admit in a private moment that one of our most revered figures from all of history is Martin Luther.
That’s because we KNOW firsthand how wrong and misguided our Church leadership can be. We KNOW what political animals a lot of them are. We KNOW how arrogant many of them are. That is not to say we do not respect our leadership, nor that there aren’t a lot of wonderful, oustanding Bishops and Priests. But all organizations run by men are fallible, including the Catholic Church. Being steeped in their Infallibilty Doctrine, they will generally not admit this. That is why someone like Luther, who had the courage of his convictions and followed his conscience on some things that, in hindsight, were very clearly wrong...is admired.
The Church gave a tacit admission of this years ago, when it suddenly became okay to play Away in a Manger in a Catholic Church at Christmas.