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To: BillyBoy
Because the Catholic church has no actual power over making any parishioner not get an abortion, etc.

I've known of more Catholics (albeit, bad ones) that have had abortions than I do of Protestants, and I know many more Protestants.

Divorce is allowed in the Catholic church, you just have to get it annulled or simply get it done outside of the Catholic church. Also, money buys a divorce pass, as with the current leader of Italy or the Kennedy family.

How you can be married for over a dozen years and have it “annulled” is beyond me, but it isn't beyond the Catholic church. Besides, “annulment” is not a concept ever mentioned in the Bible—even the Catholic Bible.

44 posted on 07/07/2009 12:06:04 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
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Billy: you are awesome and right!

CoserervativeMind: The funny thing is that my own father was a 1st. Presbyterian and his heritage was English. My mother is a Irish Roman Catholic. So believe me I have been around anti-Catholic bigotry all of my life. My father was a very good person but he was steeped in anti-Catholic bigotry. My mother, although very strict, believed that a person should never say anything against any one else's religion. At my father's funeral (Catholic because we are all Catholic), all of his siblings got up and walked out because a priest was saying the Our Father. Actually, I was not offended at all because I have been around anti-Catholic bigotry all of my life. It is ok with me but if you are able to dish it out, you should be able to take it.

79 posted on 07/07/2009 8:25:56 PM PDT by GinaLolaB
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