[Salvation]

It was eye-opening to hear the "reasons" why the Church was wrong in the process.

Reasons or excused? Not funny in either case, however. Lost souls. I agree, that we can only plant the seed; the Lord will do the reaping when people are ready.

When we held out class we thought that if only one person came back to the Catholic Church, we would have reached our goal.

Keep planting those seeds!

[malakhi]

Lost souls.

Uh huh. What happened to the concept of "invincible ignorance"? Is the reasoning of CCC #838ff. just trotted out for public consumption, and extra ecclesiam nulla salis reserved for Catholics speaking among themselves?

You could cut the sanctimony in here with a knife.

[redhead]

Please pray for my son and his wife. He is a Catholic, Baptized and Confirmed, but lapsed since his civil marriage some years ago, which ended in divorce. He has since remarried (civil) and has a child. The wife is not Catholic, but wants it very much, so her classes and their "pre-Cana" classes will be the same. He will be her sponsor at her Confirmation when she is received into the Church at Easter, and their marriage will be regularized immediately afterwards. Praise God. It's been a long time of nagging and prodding. He finally took the hint and spoke with the priest last night.