Posted on 09/18/2022 6:10:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
Reach out to the marginalized, ordain women, engage the youth.
Those were among the themes that emerged from a survey of North Jersey Catholics released last week by the Archdiocese of Newark, spiritual home to 1.3 million worshippers in Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Union counties.
In hundreds of in-person and online listening sessions this year, more than 15,000 local Catholics said the church needs to make fundamental reforms to become welcoming to women, LGBTQ parishioners, immigrants and the young people who have increasingly strayed from religious life.
"They believe that the Church is out of touch today," said a 39-page summary of the findings, released by the archdiocese.
(Excerpt) Read more at njherald.com ...
Don’t you all remember when Jesus polled the 5,000 to see what they wanted Christian doctrines to be? /sarc/
Regular churchgoers?
Catechism of the Council of Trent is a sure norm to understand and follow our Catholic faith.
https://archive.org/details/thecatechismofth00donouoft/page/n5/mode/2up
How else does one know how to emulate Christ except by reading His teachings, and those who knew Him and could speak of him? Anything else is Gnosticism, and there is already too much of that among churchgoers today.
This is why it is so distressing that so many in the church, Catholic and Protestant alike, prefer the approval of the world to the approval of Christ.
So, they are Episcopalians, not Catholics? Not a real big surprise.
People assume the Bible is the Christian owner’s manual, because it is. The writings of those who knew Christ and were taught by Christ are the only way of conforming to Christ’s teachings. How else is one to know? Rely on feelings or their own understandings, even if those directly contradict clear scripture?
Episcopalians have all that. Join them, leave Catholicism alone.
Diversity is a scam
So ask the ignorant who only know secular propaganda. Don't ask the little old ladies in the pews, or the people who sneak out to the Latin mass when available, or even those who converted from a good Protestant church, because these people are too “rigid”.
NOT this Northern NJ Catholic!
Nah. Sounds more like Methodists.
Stock a fork in it... The catholic chur h is done.
Why don’t they start their own church?
Stick, not stock.
Stick, not stock.
Demoncrats RUIN EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH!
They did; we have one in my town in “North Jersey”:
https://www.sacredheartancc.org/
Fittingly, they meet in a Protestant church.
It may be less of a schism and more of a morphing with regular parishes closing up (at a faster rate than they already are) and traditional chapels remaining. The Church will be much smaller, but that isn’t a projection; it is very much happening already.
The problem with your view, which is so common, is that earliest Christians had no Bible as we understand it — so clearly it is not essential. The Church in her infancy looked to apostolic witness, orally conveyed. The bible itself testifies to this, does it not?
See post 39.
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