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Teresa, with respect I disagree with you.I am amazed, what a spiteful thread! Of course there will be peopel who don’t accept all of the churches teachings, this usually doesn’t come out of a hatred for catholic law or a profound urge just to flout it, it comes because the person is struggling with a certain law, it is especially hard for them. We are called to see the good always, we are called to be compassionate and encourage, not sit upon high and judge when YOU yourself are a sinner. God Bless you all and much love and peace to you all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
First, this is not at all a spiteful thread. There are a few contributors to it who may have written some things they shouldn’t, but the thread is not in the least spiteful.
Second, while we are called to see the good (when there is good - it’s no use trying to see good where there is none) and be compassionate, BUT, we are also called to inform people when their actions or their beliefs are wrong. The fact that we are sinners too does not release us from that obligation. In fact, it is false compassion to tolerate wrong, and leave people to blindly walk over the precipice.
Thirdly (and lastly) while some may, indeed, be “struggling with a certain law” this is not at all the case for many. I, too, was once a “Cafeteria Catholic” and I was not at all struggling. I had, rather, made up my mind - about birth control and women priests, mainly. And, I fully believed that I was a god Catholic. I had, in other words, elected myself Pope!! And there are many others like that.
Thanks be to God, He shook me and awakened me to the truth. Since that happened I find no difficulty whatever in totally accepting whatever the Church tells us has been revealed by God, and in accepting whatever disciplines the Church holds to be right. I also have found that I have grown in my understanding of these truths. Truly, we must believe and then understand!
There are, indeed, Cafeteria Catholics who have taken on the role of Pope for themselves, deciding for themselves what they will and will not believe, yet still call themselves Catholic.