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To: redgolum
That's awesome. I know back in Fort Wayne, Indiana when I lived there, the Catholics and Lutherans had a close working relationship. Heck one of our Catholic high schools shared a football stadium with the Lutheran high school.

Also they had only one Lutheran parochial school so they played in the CYO leagues so they didn't have to play the government schools.

88 posted on 07/17/2014 7:12:56 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: defconw; redgolum
That's awesome. I know back in Fort Wayne, Indiana when I lived there, the Catholics and Lutherans had a close working relationship.

Heck one of our Catholic high schools shared a football stadium with the Lutheran high school. Also they had only one Lutheran parochial school so they played in the CYO leagues so they didn't have to play the government schools.

Years ago when we lived up north we lived in a very small village. There were about 6 different denominations. They formed an area association of churches. The purpose was to avoid duplication of effort. The AOG had purchased the old high school and took over the furniture ministry. The Larger Catholic Church took over the Clothing ministry. The Lutherans took over the food pantry. My wife worked there and was in charge of that. The Pastor was a woman and the secretary was Episcopalian converting to Catholicism.

None of the pastors had any difficulty sending people in need to any of the other churches to receive services. And none of them would have even thought about flock poaching.

99 posted on 07/17/2014 7:54:04 AM PDT by verga (Conservative, leaning libertarian)
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To: defconw
That's awesome. I know back in Fort Wayne, Indiana when I lived there, the Catholics and Lutherans had a close working relationship. Heck one of our Catholic high schools shared a football stadium with the Lutheran high school. Also they had only one Lutheran parochial school so they played in the CYO leagues so they didn't have to play the government schools.

So it's "awesome" that the Catholic church can collaborate with non-Catholic denominations, but when it comes to non-Catholic denominations, suddenly it's not so awesome, that the 51,000 (or whatever the number du jour is) even exist, much less collaborate? Which, BTW, they do fairly often.

Non-Catholic denominations don't have any problem, for the most part, working with each other or with non-denoms such as rescue missions of the Salvation Army.

117 posted on 07/17/2014 9:21:10 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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