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To: Salvation
You have to know, Salvation, that many baptized Catholics do not follow the rules of the Church. You must be aware that many don't go to Sunday Mass every week, do not go to confession/reconciliation, engage in sex before marriage, live together before marriage.

How many get divorced and remarry?

Regardless of these actions which go against the teachings of the Church, you believe they are still Catholics.

I don't understand that thinking. While some would like to call themselves Catholic, there are others who no longer identify with the Catholic Church.

I think they should have that freedom to decide.

31 posted on 02/08/2014 10:09:58 PM PST by IIntense
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To: IIntense

“You must be aware that many don’t go to Sunday Mass every week, do not go to confession/reconciliation, engage in sex before marriage, live together before marriage”.

Correct, but it also describes the majority of protestants.
If you’re not Catholic why does it bother you how some that identify as Catholic live their life?


41 posted on 02/09/2014 8:15:22 AM PST by NKP_Vet ("I got a good Christian raisin', and 8th grade education, aint no need ya'll treatin' me this way")
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To: IIntense

I am saying that the God-given gifts of Baptism and Confirmation do not disappear, regardless of their actions. Their souls are still marked indelibly as Catholic!


47 posted on 02/09/2014 2:21:19 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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