Posted on 01/10/2017 7:35:43 PM PST by marshmallow
I will further tell you that the Mass in Pamplona was one of the most inclusive and moving ones I have attended. It was about how we are all pilgrims in this life and how and what pilgrimage should mean.
You may be sure of your beliefs, but I have seen with my own eyes otherwise, I have sat at dinners with other pilgrims talking about their experiences and heard them tell me their own stories. I was amazed at the religious diversity of the pilgrims. I had dinner on the Camino with Buddhists, Muslims, Anglicans, atheists, and Catholics.
Words and actions are two totally different things, whether you want to believe it or not.
If you saw sacrilege of the Blessed Sacrament, I want no part in your "pilgrimages".
You must be careful in extrapolating Church dogma from your experience at one or a few churches (really “parishes”).
What a few parishes in Spain (or anywhere) do is not necessarily what the “Church” teaches definitively. Certainly as we all know some parishes tolerate known abortionists and their supporters, even admitting them to the Blessed Sacrament. Is this what “the Church teaches”?
The answer to that question, before you extrapolate more from your individual experience, is “no, it’s not what the Church teaches”.
The same goes for the “come one come all” attitude the parishes you have apparently attended in Spain. They are not doing what the Church truly teaches. It doesn’t matter that they call themselves “Catholic”, anyone can do that.
Before you may say, “well someone should tell them they are doing something wrong”, I will say “Yes, I agree, someone should”.
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