I actually meant lack of compassion toward fellow parishioners.
Your new friends are probably naive, too.
Yep, everybody's naive but Catholics, right?
My church will be there for me regardless of their actions, since Christ did say he would be with us until the end of the age.
Since we also worship Christ and have the same Sacraments as you how does that make us all that different?
. I don’t concern myself with the finances—I’m there to receive the sacraments and hear the Word of the Lord. I have attended my current church for 20+ years and have only been asked once to give more—it was during the recession when contributions fell off and bills needed to be paid.
Lucky you! At the Catholic churches I went to after every sermon there was a plea for money for some such charity and two collections. Now that I think of it, I'm not sure I believe you.
Many of our churches have St. Vincent de Paul collections for food to feed the needy. We provide Christmas baskets with turkeys to many families.
And, guess what? We deliver food regularly to the St. Vincent de Paul church near where we live. We take up collections of food. We also take a dinner, cooked mind you, for 65 people at that church every two months. And, we are a very small congregation.
But, you go on thinking that only Catholic churches reach out to the needy, hear the word of Christ, know anything about the Bible, etc. It must make you feel better about your choice to denigrate others' choices otherwise why would you do it?
If you took my reply as denigration it was not intentional. What do you expect when you, for what reason I am still unsure, label another group of people “beggars” and accuse them of having “animosity” toward others, comments that most would find denigrating? Surely you knew it would raise some eyebrows.
Call it a truce and agree that it’s okay to disagree. Christians get enough crap from the Left anyway. We don’t need to dish it out against other Christians.
One other point: (Don’t take this as a personal attack—it’s just an observation.) I remember reading about a study done in 2010 that found the Catholic Church’s membership rose while the Episcopal Church’s declined. I wonder why.