Angry at the church

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Oh, yes we are still sacramentally married because the Catholic Church gave us the “favour” of a radical sensation.
 
Amberhoney said:
I want to go back to my Protestant church and give up being a Catholic, but they won’t let me give up my Catholic status
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I think you can leave. It’s the church, not the mafia.
Sorry you are so angry.
But why lash out at us?
 
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I know that the Catholic Church believes marriage to be a sacrament and catholic church is not Bible alone and follows tradition! I know all of that, so please don’t assume that I don’t know what the sacrament of marriage is,
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It’s hard to understand your position when you make comments like the one above and then try and convince everyone reading that you’re Catholic merely because you went to RCIA.

You made a conscious choice to believe and adhere to the teachings of the Catholic Church and then you lash out at that same Church and tell everyone that you wish to go back to your Protestant Church.

I don’t blame you for your ignorance of Church teachings. Many RCIA classes leave a lot to be desired when it comes to teaching doctrine correctly. However, your response appears to be based solely on your misunderstanding and your perceived offense at being told your marriage wasn’t a sacramental marriage for the last 18 years.

You should look into why the Church teaches what she teaches before you just up and leave.
 
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Crusader13 said:
I don’t blame you for ignorance of Church teachings. Many RCIA classes leave a lot to be desired when it comes to teaching doctrine correctly. However, your response appears to be based solely on your misunderstanding and your perceived offense at being told your marriage wasn’t a sacramental marriage for the last 18 years.
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Especially since it’s been sorted. I admit I think the Church should allow Catholics to marry outside the Church or convaldidate the marriages of non Catholics coming into the Church though. The way it is at the moment does not make sense.
 
I’m sorry you’re going through this, but I suggest you work on your anger. Your responses are coming off very hostile. These people are being very patient and helpful, no need to snap.
 
Instead of being angry at the church not bending to your version of theology, you could try to bend to the Church.
 
Montrose said:
It is radical sanation, not sensation.
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Thank you!

Amberhoney, you have been using the wrong term throughout this thread. If you are wrong about this simple little thing (using the proper term), do you accept that you may be wrong about many other beliefs that you are holding onto about the Catholic Church?

If you don’t trust your priest, or if he is an old man who isn’t very good at communicating, or if he seems to have an “attitude” that ticks you off, then for heaven’s sake, go find a young, dynamic priest in your area who is a good teacher, loves counselling, and is completely up-to-date in his education about all that the Catholic Church teaches. I wish you were in our parish–all of our priests are like that!

Or go straight to your diocescan headquarters and make an appointment with the person in charge of diocescan catechesis (teaching). Get him or her to give you the run-down.

And for the love of Pete (or whoever!), how can you possibly hold it against the Catholic Church that they didn’t educate your husband about marriage when he was 0-12 years old?!!

Most boys make faces and “icky” noises when anyone tries to talk to them about girls, marriage, weddings, etc.! And frankly, I don’t think it’s appropriate for a children’s religious education class to delve deeply into marriage teachings–just the bare basics. Yes, once the children become teens, it’s more urgent that they know more details, but you said your husband dropped out of Catholicism when he was 12, so he never had the chance to learn all these things.

And even if he had, do you honestly think he would have remembered all that stuff about the “sacrament of marriage” and all the rest?

You’re being unrealistic here, and you’re so crazy mad that you aren’t thinking straight. Go find a GOOD teacher/priest, or talk to a woman who is charged with teaching other women about Catholic marriage, and get your facts straight.

And maybe consider learning more constructive ways to deal with your anger issues. You’ll live longer.

And one more thing–I spent the first 42 years of my life as an Evangelical Protestant in some of the top-rated Evangelical Protestant churches in the U.S., under some very famous Evangelical Protestant pastors. I can testify that Protestant churches don’t have all their ducks in a row when it comes to marriage and happiness. I’ve known plenty of Protestants whose marriages crashed and burned. If you like the music, fine–go to a Protestant church for the Praise and Worship time and enjoy yourself (although if you look around, you may find a Catholic church that offers this, too). But don’t go expecting that marriage is better-done by Protestants. It isn’t.
 
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