Also, my mom herself is sterilized. She had a tubal after her 5th pregnancy. So yeah…she didn’t teach me this. I don’t have any faithful Catholics in my daily life. None.Where on earth were your parents and grandparents all this time?
Wow.
That’s very sad!
You can probably call the main number and find out if there is something like a pro-life office, or something like that. You wouldn’t have to go in person.
Keep on trying - and ask if they have someone who does home visits, if it’s hard for you to get to them. If you haven’t tried your parish office yet, try them - sometimes the office staff have a favourite person that they go to themselves.
I just checked the diocese website and the closest instructors are all at least 45 minutes away. I doubt very seriously that any would be willing to make home visits. But hey, I’ll ask
!It can’t hurt anything, for sure.I just checked the diocese website and the closest instructors are all at least 45 minutes away. I doubt very seriously that any would be willing to make home visits. But hey, I’ll ask
Yes, this was California in the late '80s. We learned nothing of substance in that class. Almost none of my former classmates is a practicing Catholic now.
Yes, I learned that too. It was true long ago. My grandparents were married in the rectory because my grandpa wasn’t baptized. My grandma said she could have divorced him because it wasn’t a church wedding. I married a divorced unbaptized man based on what she told me. There are so many myths out there.
I was just thinking the same thing …
I know you are just communicating what other people think not necessarily your thoughts but I have never understood that logic. “I’m a good person as long as I did not commit genocide” Is never a logical way to look at sin and evil and being Catholic. Imagine if we all applied this criteria to every sin! As long as it isn’t the worst thing imaginable it is OK with God!?
Most people couldn’t care less about God and sin, though. Looking at it through a prism of a person who posts on Catholic Answers is not the norm.
Apparently.
1) you’re supposed to remove the plank from your own eye first, before you help your brother try to remove his. 2) You’re not judging his motive to say there’s a plank in his eye. You’re not saying he meant to put it there. Only God can sees the heart and he’ll sort that part out for all of us. It’s our job to give brotherly love, which includes all the warm fuzzies, but also assisting a brother who seems to have some spiritual blindness. Whether or not they accept is there choice.I think the idea is more, “God isn’t paying any attention to me, so I can hide in the corner and do whatever I want, because He’s too busy elsewhere.”
I think, too, it’s easy to write it off as “not that big of a deal” because it is so widely accepted in the world, even by other devout Christians. It is one of the only things that our faith asks of us that other faiths don’t. If all the Protestants, Mormons, Jews, etc. are happily living life while using contraception - then is it REALLY that big of a deal? When health insurance covers it, there are ads for it on TV and in magazines, it’s a common topic of discussion amongst girlfriends, it’s up on a poster at the OB’s office… It’s simply not a controversial topic the way abortion, euthanasia, premarital sex or gay marriage are. It’s considered 100% acceptable, and not just in a “seedy atheistic secular” capacity. As Catholics, we pretty much stand alone against contraception in the Chriatian world. So, it’s hard to imagine that it can really be that evil and awful when all the other Christians confirm that it’s fine for married couples. On top of that, you’ve got most baptized Catholics using it, and Catholic Churches aren’t exactly preaching about NFP from the pulpits. I’ve never heard contraception mentioned at Mass in 30 years. My pre-marriage counseling made no mention of contraception or NFP. Amongst even many churchgoing Catholics, it’s almost considered a silly joke - who would be so old fashioned and follow THAT ridiculous teaching?
It is the Devil’s oldest trick - “Did God really say … ?”
This. Even suggesting that couples have as many children as God gives them, gets you pigeon-holed into the “religious NUT” category. People can also state out loud that they support the THEORY of not using contraceptives, but personally, they are using ABC and will continue to use it; they have an “out,” because (insert a million different excuses and rationalizations). I think most Catholics believe that it can’t really be a sin. They have never heard anything to the contrary, and as you say, “everyone else is doing it, so why not us?”
So those who cannot feed their children enough to be health is because they do the right they with all that God gave them? Seriously? Those born on the streets, all those children dying in Africa? Those who sending their children into sweat shop to have enough money to buy minimal amount of food? God is giving them what they need?It’s GOD’S law, not the Church’s. Or, rather, it’s GOD’S law expressed through the Church. And hey! Guess what! God gives you everything you have in your life to care for and support your family and children!
Sheesh. What an attitude.
Welcome back. My post was addressed specifically to that poster. I will let your post stand on its own.So those who cannot feed their children enough to be health is because they do the right they with all that God gave them? Seriously? Those born on the streets, all those children dying in Africa? Those who sending their children into sweat shop to have enough money to buy minimal amount of food? God is giving them what they need?
So all the sins you commit should be considered as bad as murder?