[babygene]

“In you are a faithful practicing Catholic you must freely submit to the authority of the Church, if you don’t then you really aren’t Catholic.”

Nope, not true... For a sin to be a sin you must believe it to be a sin. A priest’s opinion does not trump conscious. Only when the when the Pope speaks ex cathedra is that true.

And I doubt that the parish priest is going to tell you that...

[LurkingSince'98]

Hey I didn’t realize you are from the Cafeteria branch of the Catholic Church, where you get to pick and choose what YOU not the Church believes is right.

Good luck with that when you meet you maker face to face and tell Him you knew better than His Church on earth.

AMDG

[pbear8]

You are required to have a well-formed conscience, in must be in accordance with Church teaching, your opinion does not enter into the equation.

Catholics seek to inform their consciences according to reason and revelation as guided by Church teachings. They believe that by "their faith, aroused and sustained by the Spirit of truth, the People of God, guided by the sacred teaching authority (magisterium), and obeying it, receives not the mere word of human beings, but truly the word of God." (Vatican II, The Church (1964), §12). It is to the pope and the bishops that this teaching authority is entrusted.