“F-You God, your most precious creation is NOTHING to me.”
I think you are right. That said, why do you have the likes of Pelosi, the Kennedy’s, pick a liberal politician, who claims to be a “practicing Catholic,” and tell me why they still make that claim? And the corollary, why does the Catholic Church permit these people to remain members in good standing? Inquiring minds want to know. Have churches devolved into religious banks? Do you now get to decide which of the churches teachings you will abide? While we are going about cleaning up the country, we might want to do some housecleaning in our churches.
Easy. Divide and conquor. Spies/espionage/corrupt from within.
Pit the power of politics against the teachings of the church. . After all, a HIGHLY respected person like Teddy or Nancy would never lie. They have too much to loose! (Yea right)
And consider that Nancy is telling the Bishops/cardinals behind the scenes (You will go along with this, you will play the game or you get your tax status changed.
Don’t doubt that some version of that occurs daily on an issue by issue basis.
You ask, “Why does the Catholic Church permit these people [i.e., pro-abortionists] to remain members in good standing? Inquiring minds want to know. Have churches devolved into religious banks? Do you now get to decide by which of the church’s teachings you will abide? While we are going about cleaning up the country, we might want to do some housecleaning in our churches.”
Good questions! Let me begin by responding that I’m not sure that these people are all members in good standing of the Catholic church. I think it varies from diocese to diocese, but at least some bishops have taken steps to censure these people.
As for churches devolving into religious banks, I think your criticism is correct. Some clerics don’t want to take steps to discipline people, much less excommunicate them, especially if they’re good contributors to the church.
The Catholic church’s position is that, no, you don’t get to decide by which of the church’s teaching you will abide. Cafeteria Catholicism is not allowed, but that being said, it is too often tolerated nonetheless.
You are right, we need to do some housecleaning in our churches. “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” (1st Peter 4:17-18)