Catholics are always right

[Gottle_of_Geer]

benjie:

Hi-im not too sure where to put this so ill try here-I quote the father of Mel Gibson as saying" the good thing about being a Catholic is that your always right" and this kind of troubles me. Ive just had a ‘discussion’ with my spiritual director about the fact that babies dont go to heaven if they are not baptised yet, due to original sin, even though the perpitrators of that sin are in Heaven due to Christ’s ultimate sacrifice on the cross. This and other aspects of Catholicism i find hard to accept, but accept them i must, for fear of being a non-conformist.

That;'s a dreadful reason to be Catholic, or anything - Jesus was not a conformist, and didn’t teach conformism.​

I am begining to fear mentioning anything in public, asking any questions or thinking anything for fear of sinning or retribution from my peers. I want to love Jesus, I want him to be my freind but it seems so ’ jesus loves you…as long as you…’.

That’s a very grave error - God’s love for us is unconditional. If it were not, it would not be gracious - it would be based on law. But the was plenty of law before Jesus: if we have law, we need neither the Incarnation nor the Cross nor the Resurrection. Law has the advantage of allowing us to trust in our own achievements - and that is completely the reverse of what Str.Paul says. How can we “deny ourselves” if we are hanging on to our own achievements ? It’s not possible.​

I live with a group of traditionalist Catholics and, being new at this find so much confusing and hard to believe-some things have to be believed without question-other ‘novus ordo’ things are ‘false’ and must be rejected even though they may be from Priests or even the Holy Father. The path to heaven seems so narrow from where im crawling that I fear ill never stay on it.

Of course - for of ourselves, we can do nothing; that is precisely why we are always in need of God’s grace & mercy.​

If Jesus loves us all, why is he going to purge the world in the chastisment?

That is a private revelation - don’t let yourself be bullied into accepting what is not taught by the Church’s teaching authority. The authentic teachers in the CC are the bishops united with the Roman bishop: not visionaries, private individuals, factions in the Church, laity, or anyone else: not even traditionalists, nor anyone in these forums either ​

he says do not fear but I live each day scared out of my whits and increasingly silent an ostricised.