Very good. The church of I me mine. My salvation. My mediator. My personal Lord and Saviour, bruited about like a personal trainer or personal valet or personal parrot that sits in a cage and squawks upon command. If you read the fervent Protestant posts here objectively, I trust that you'll see the same trend. It's the gimme gimme mindset of much of American culture - all the way from the seasoned citizens whacking their Congressmen with their canes in order to ensure their Social Security benefits do not decrease in their increases all the way to the whinging and demanding kids who not only expect XBoxes, but will call the police if their 'guardian' of the month won't immediately give it to them.
That’s the truth of scripture. Can you find anywhere in scripture where someone is saved simply by belonging to a group or is it a personal decision which causes someone to be saved and then becoming part of the “body of Christ”?
Whose pushing the gimme mindset ?
Papal prescription for universal health care
Sunday, January 16, 2011
http://www.uscatholic.org/culture/social-justice/2011/01/papal-prescription
Pope, church leaders call for guaranteed health care for all people
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1004736.htm
Pope Calls Health Care An ‘Inalienable Right,’ Urges World Governments To Provide Universal Coverage
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/19/131348/pope-universal-healthcare/
Pope calls for health care for all
http://blog.beliefnet.com/deaconsbench/2010/11/pope-calls-for-health-care-for-all.html
Our salvation as Catholics rooted in our faith in Jesus Christ and our supernatural encounter with him physically and corporeally in the sacraments.
I don’t place my faith in the Pope, priests, bishops, etc. The trouble is so many Catholics are poorly educated about their faith, especially since Vatican II.