I think your on to something, more or less. You don’t get legal advice from a bus driver. You don’t get advice on how to drive a bus from a lawyer either!
We are not talking about a job, we are talking about holy ordained Priests.
Does being ordained mean you possess intimate knowledge about every subject known to man? How to install toilets? Preform heart surgery? Argue a case before the supreme court? Diagnose my computer issues?
Right, but I don’t care if my doctor has personally experienced a heart attack or clogged arteries, all I care about is if he can fix the problem. The priest may not have personal, first hand knowledge of what a marital problem feels like but he does have the knowledge and expertise to help out and offer advice.
Perhaps. The question is “can they fix the problem” though. A medical doctor shouldn’t give medical advice out of their specialty, however. An oncologist might be a brilliant oncologist, even though they’ve never had cancer. However, even if they’ve had two heart attacks, they might not know a thing about them!
I agree with you Rascalking. I would not give married people advice (even though most of my friends are married and they whine so much), because I’ve never been married, and I haven’t studied to be a marriage counselor. I can give the by-the-book answers like “communicate more” but it might not be the best advice.
Brother you’ve got it so right.
Thanks. And just because you read Grisham doesn’t mean you can practice law!
Actually I think you are on a good slope… But lets use a Carthaginian and her sacrifice to Baal? I am sure she thought she was doing the right thing…
Nope…but then again I have never mudered anybody and I don’t need a merderer to tell me how it feels to know that it is wrong…I read a lot of military history. A lot. I’ve given lectures on World War II at museums. I have friends who are deployed, or have been deployed overseas. I have worked with people who have served in three different wars.
I lived near a military base and had friends whose dad’s were soldiers.
Does any of that make me a soldier? Or a combat vet?
Kids 21/16/12 and 4… I still think that have a lot to learn from the Fathers… Kind of like going to a Pediatrician that is single…
Well 50%% of married people know diddly about being married, since they don’t stay married. Priest on the other hand, like Paul VI, pretty much nailed what was going to happen in Humanea Vitea… Why was he able to do this? Maybe his insight came from years of experience as well as a little help from above?
Well, cheese worship might be funny, but mostly it’s just joke. And not a good one. But it’s your option.
Great Post…Well, cheese worship might be funny, but mostly it’s just joke. And not a good one. But it’s your option.
So are you saying that a jury can not convict a murderer if they have never murdered? That does not justify the murder. They are still allowed to pass judgment based on the laws as they are written.
Catholics (and by extension, all of us) have “the law”. One may decide to follow or not. That we have free will is a given. But to say, one has to only follow his own conscience… well isn’t that what atheists say? “Critical Thinking” it’s called, I believe. Funny how none of the celibate old guys you denounce have the same capability as YOU have to do critical thinking. Or the thousands of years of logical analysis the church has developed over time. “They” don’t know everything. But YOU seem to think you do. Pride is the worst of the seven deadly sins. Oh, that religious stuff again.
The 50 percent divorce stat is a myth-it only counts if you include people like Liz Taylor and Larry King!
Funny thing, though… I’m not the only person, or priest, to think these thoughts…
Ummm…NFP didn’t teach you that. All NFP does is provide a system for collecting data. What you do with the data – and how you treat each other in light of the data – is your own doing. If you chose to use the time of avoiding pregnancy to reject one another, that was your own fault. It doesn’t have to be that way, and it’s a shame that the pair of you looked at it that way. The rest of us look at it as a time of courtship/wooing or prayer or sacrifice for the good of our spouse or something else that’s very positive and spiritually fulfilling.
Possibly. A mortal sin involves three qualifications. You have to do the act willingly (which you did). It has to be a very serious matter (which it is – self-mutilation is always very serious). But you also have to know in advance that it’s a mortal sin, and it sounds like you may not have. I would suggest you talk it over with a priest, because we’re all capable of fooling ourselves into thinking we didn’t know what we were doing, when we really did.
Well, that’s a problem. If your conscience was well-formed, you would naturally regret all your sins, even if you only found out afterward how serious the sin was.
If you don’t regret a sin - mortal or venial - it is always prudent to refrain from Communion and pray diligently and practice other spiritual disciplines (such as making a personal sacrifice, like giving up meat or working in a soup kitchen) until you learn to regret it.
True. but it’s not humorous.Funny thing, though… I’m not the only person, or priest, to think these thoughts…
Your right about this. Alot of people who disagree with the church or are agnostic about certain teachings DO think that people who agree with the church can’t think critically. I admit that, for what it’s worth.