Catholics at the polls

[Jerry-Jet]

When it gets down to the candidates that support baby murderers who practice abortion–Clinton versus Guiliani–how many Catholics will have the courage not to vote for either of them?

 

[dcdurel]

The Church at least in my area hasn’t done a very good job of educating the faithful. Education in the faith was left to the individual. Preaching and homiles were never about the faith or how it is to be practiced by the faithful. They are more about how great God love spans. Which is a great subject to teach about but not for forty years without teaching the faith to the faithful. Examples were not set. I need two hands to count the liturical abuses under the GIRM and now the cannon in my parish even today. I’m betting that I could ask five question that any Catholic in good standing should know of the entire parish and have only 20% get all five right.

There was at least a forty year gap in the teaching of the faith in it’s proper context. Two years ago the bishop admitted and apologized for this “gap” in our local Catholic newspaper. Some parishes have been slow to respond to the need to educate the faithful in the faith. It is not the fault of the Priest entirely. People are more secular in nature. Is this a result of the “gap”? Maybe, who knows. Some Priests’ while extremely busy seem to desire to not ruffle feathers/offend the offenders. Instead of teaching the black and white stances of the faith it is acceptable to allow people to believe what they will: viewing it as being in the gray area. .

The primary duty of priests is to proclaim the Gospel. This is Church teaching.

The problem is the the theologians and scripture scholars in this country. None of them have the correct understanding of what the Church means by the word Gospel. They all think it means only the teachings of Jesus found explicitly in the four Gospels and interpreted according to Tradition. Thus, since

1. Abortion.
2. Defending Traditional Marriage.
3. Stem Cell Research.
4. Euthanasia, etc.
   are not mentioned in these four Gospels, they are never taught or seldom taught. And when they are taught, the priests think they are not really fulfilling their duty to “proclaim the Gospel.”

The priests are taught that they proclaim the Gospel only by explaining the readings.

Their teachers, the Catholic scholars, have never taught them that the primary means of proclaiming the Gospel is to teach the whole Catholic faith, in a systematic manner, based on the Catechism.
This is because the Catholic scholars don’t know what the Church means when she uses the word “Gospel.”

Thus, no priests have been taught correctly on the real meaning of the word Gospel and the content of the Gospel and how to proclaim the Gospel.
If you don’t believe me, ask any priest what the content of the homily is supposed to be about.

If you don’t believe that Catholic scholars and theologians in this country have no idea that the Gospel the apostles taught and preached is the Catholic faith, then ask any Catholics scholar, theologian or otherwise, exactly what did the apostles teach and preach when they proclaimed the Gospel.
They will have no idea.

Search the entire Internet. Look for any book by any Catholic scholar that explains what the apostles taught and preached.
Not a single one will tell you that the Gospel the apostles taught and preached is the whole Catholic faith, and the apostles taught it by explaining the articles of the Creed, the Sacraments, the Commandments and Prayer.
Again, they are totally lost.
None of them have any idea that the Gospel the apostles taught and preached is the Catholic faith.
They are the ones who teach the priests. It is not the priests fault. It is the theologians, who are totally lost.

By Gospel, the Catholic Chuch means the entire Catholic faith, everything she believes, in addition to those elements of the faith that were handed down in scripture. Thus to proclaim the Gospel, the entire Catholic faith must be systamatically taught, at mass.
Because the liturgy is the priviledge place for catechising the people of God, as the Catechism says.

See page 25 in the Catechism that the full and living Gospel was handed down in Tradition, which is everything the Church believes and is.

I repeat again, the entire Catholic educational establishment, theologians and all are totally lost on this point.

I wish someone could prove me wrong.
I wish their was one single theologian who knows what the Church means by the word Gospel and who can write about it and explain it.
I would love to buy his book.