Dangerous Catholics

[MNathaniel]

Short answer:

Yeah, clearly. Anyone who publicly claims to represent the Catholic Church, but misrepresents her teachings to the point of discouraging others from following them, is committing the sin of scandal, and placing a stumbling block in front of both the faithful and potential converts.

EDIT: to be clear, this also applies to non-famous Catholics who are nonetheless known to their family, friends, and coworkers (and acquaintances in the street who know they’re Catholic), and similarly scandalize someone away from Christ in the Church. None of us are off the hook. It’s just that the particularly famous and politically powerful folks are ‘dangerous’ at such an obvious scale. But let’s none of us ignore the log in our own eye, either.

 

[BornInMarch]

I think people like this have some benefit to the church. Without people like this, someone who is a sincere Catholic but who nevertheless disagrees with the church on a social issue might otherwise feel like he doesn’t belong and leave the church for another denomination (or worse yet, leave Christianity altogether).

Instead, if they say “John Doe disagrees with the church on X but still goes to mass every Sunday, so if I disagree with X that doesn’t mean I’m not a real Catholic”, then they stay in the church and enjoy the spiritual protections it provides (in addition to getting more chances to see the error of their ways).

This is a church of Sinners, always was and will be until Jesus returns because that’s who He died for.

 

[EndTimes]

Both parties here in the States have taken positions that go against Catholic teaching, but this president has repeatedly taken positions and has backed programs that has hurt a great many innocent people.

Could be…

Yet the Democrat party’s platform peddles ABORTION and SAME-SEX 'marriage"

Both of those are aligned with SATAN