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To: stevem

Yeah, get out of that church. From a former catholic.


43 posted on 11/30/2015 3:14:40 PM PST by jbb247
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To: jbb247
Yeah, get out of that church. From a former catholic.

Nope! That isn't in the cards.

A couple of decades ago I started reading The Good News as though there was meaning and found there was for me.

In another lifetime I went to the seminary with the idea that I could get ordained then teach The Good News. Life intervened. To this day, about four, nearly five decades hence, I'm still trying to figure out what the Grand Puppeteer has in mind for me.

Along the way I have met a good many men who completed that course of study I left and discovered many of them figured out the purpose, at least, of The Good News long before I did. These are men I will always be proud to freely associate (with).

The thing of it is is the Catholic Church recruits representatives the same place other persuasions do i.e. that eminently flawed human race. Catholics don't have a monopoly on nit wit leaders. Nevertheless, a couple in my life walked among the giants who ever lived on this earth i.e. Pius XII and John Paul II.

John XXIII or Paul VI? I just don't know that much about them. Same with Benedict although there appears to be some intrigue in that one. John Paul I only lasted about a month.

I'm not sure we can condemn the Catholic Church because we have a Pope who thinks his theater of operations is something other than sin. He can harm respect due the office. For some that respect doesn't have far to fall. Lots of people in lots of churches could use a little more introspection.

I'll stick with this one for awhile.

91 posted on 11/30/2015 7:58:01 PM PST by stevem
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