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TorontoCatholic
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This is moral relativism my friend. This attitude is incompatible with the Catholic faith.
I am a Moderate Catholic (or, here's a big target on my forehead)
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pprimeau1976
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Amen about Mary. I prefer to ask her once though. I do like meditating on the mysteries. I am just not one of those walk and chew gum Catholics.You don’t have to like the Rosary to be a devout Catholic. It’s not a mortal sin to not pray the Rosary. But, I used to not ‘get it,’ not so much I didn’t like it…but over time…I’ve grown to really like the time asking Mary to pray for me. Who better to ask than the mother of Christ?
Regarding the pride statement…starting every sentence with I!!
Can you imagine the ear-ache if all 1 Billion of us prayed the rosary? My wife goes crazy when two kids ask for help at the same time! I joke around, I am sure the Almighty has a filtering mechanism in place.
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pprimeau1976
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We’re not questioning the Church, we’re questioning the teachers who teach the teachings of the Church.
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TorontoCatholic
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People should just be Catholic.Sometimes, I wonder…just throwing this out there…when people type up posts announcing that they are moderate Catholics…maybe they want people to sway them? Maybe this is a cry for help, steadfast. (j/k)
Not liberal Catholic, conservative Catholic, moderate Catholic, etc…
Just Catholic.
There is one Catholic faith, one truth revealed to us by Jesus Christ.
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Friar_David_O.Carm
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Sorry, but when making such claims I believe that one must back them up.Re: the Rosary, I just don;t like it.
Neither did St. Therese, so I am in good company.
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Steadfast
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I am not seeking to be swayed.
I am just lighting a lamp to let people know that if they convert from Protestantism they don’t have to become e-Polo-borg. They don’t have to regurgitate whatever someone else tells them and they can be faithful without either becoming a cartoon or reducing their past to cartoon status.
ETA: I describe myself as “moderate” only as it relates to the larger scheme. To many here I am probably liberal, while to liberals I would be too conservative…’
It’s just an adjective.
I am just lighting a lamp to let people know that if they convert from Protestantism they don’t have to become e-Polo-borg. They don’t have to regurgitate whatever someone else tells them and they can be faithful without either becoming a cartoon or reducing their past to cartoon status.
ETA: I describe myself as “moderate” only as it relates to the larger scheme. To many here I am probably liberal, while to liberals I would be too conservative…’
It’s just an adjective.
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pprimeau1976
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Could’t have said it better.
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Caesar
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Unless what they teach is not supported by established doctrine, then why question them?
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whatevergirl
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Oh I agree. To be moderate as a Catholic requires your own opinions to basically matter more than the truth of your faith. To disbelieve this or that…doesn’t make it so. I think there is something to be said about absolute truths.
If I believe that the sky is black, when clearly it’s blue…my opinion doesn’t change the truth that the sky is blue.
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Caesar
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The Catholic Church is not a “do-it yourself” religion. You cannot pick and choose what to believe and what to practice by what suits you. If that was the case then the Word need’nt have bothered to become flesh.
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whatevergirl
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I guess I always believe in saying what you mean. If a Protestant turns to Catholicism, he/she hopes that someone can give them a steadfast (no pun) meaning to the faith. Teaching anyone who is not Catholic that they can pick and choose what they believe in, and still be following the faith, is kinda dangerous, don’t you think? I think it’s a bit misleading…personally.
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The_Iambic_Pen
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I think it is problematic when people start saying, “I’m Catholic, but…” I’m not Catholic myself yet, so I’m not trying to in any way sound superior. It just seems to me from the outside that part of being Catholic is submitting to the authority of the Church.
God bless!
God bless!
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Steadfast
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I read it somewhere years ago. I’ll look for it and if I can;t find it I’ll gladly retract and beg the Little Flower’s pardon.
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Steadfast
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I keep reading your oblique criticisms of me as being a cafeterian and I keep asking for examples from what I wrote and you keep obliquely criticizing me without giving me the examples I am looking for.
I think you think you have me all figured out and, well, you don’t.
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Caesar
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You are correct! We submit our souls to the rule of Christ by submiting our faith to the rule of His Church.
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Steadfast
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Fair enough.
Now tell me how an expression of doubt or of concern or of question constitutes a denial of that authority.
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whatevergirl
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The authority of the Church expressly comes from the authority of Jesus. The Holy Spirit guides the RCC, the Cathechism isn’t a man made book of morals, randomly handed down, although my husband even wrestles with it, at times.
Nothing in the Cathecism is bad for us. Nothing. Everything though, does require sacrifice…which can be painful…but never bad. Self sacrfice is never a bad thing…it’s always a good thing. The Church, its authority, is to lead us to holiness. People like to take white out to those pages in the Cathecism that are simply put–too hard to follow. I should know…I used to sport a large bottle of white out, too! But, over time…I spiritually and logically came to the conclusion that the RCC has our best intentions at heart.
I look at the RCC as the true manifestation of the initial conversation Jesus has with Peter. (what Jesus would have hoped for, and handed this authority to Peter)
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Caesar
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Do you believe it is wrong to question the authority of Christ?
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whatevergirl
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Where am I criticizing you? I say what I mean…I’m not oblique.
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mgrobertson79
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Borderline heresy. The Church’s teachings do not change. These teachings were passed down from the Apostles who received them from Christ. Sounds like a protestant to me, but just my opinion. You should go talk to the Methodist. This is where you are headed. I pray that you will wake up and realize you can not be a “middle of the road” Catholic. Christ established one Church, that Church is the Catholic Church, not every Christian. This is modernist, PC talk and is far from Catholic. I came from a Southern Baptist family so I know about fundamentalist. I would not have left if everything you listed were true.
Yes, Evolution is a bunch of bunk, it is also taught as fact in our local RCIA.
Yes, Abortion is wrong
No, Protestants separated themselves from Christ’s Church and today attack and malign it.
No, Priest should not marry, per St. Pauls recommendation
As for private devotions, they are just that, private. The Rosary, though it is Praying the Birth,Life, Death and Resurrection of Christ, is only a private devotion, just like the LOTH for non religious. I personally love both and pray both whenever possible.
You have to understand the Dogmas and teachings of the Church to criticize them. You should do a little more reading before staking your soul on the position you are taking here.
Yes, Evolution is a bunch of bunk, it is also taught as fact in our local RCIA.
Yes, Abortion is wrong
No, Protestants separated themselves from Christ’s Church and today attack and malign it.
No, Priest should not marry, per St. Pauls recommendation
As for private devotions, they are just that, private. The Rosary, though it is Praying the Birth,Life, Death and Resurrection of Christ, is only a private devotion, just like the LOTH for non religious. I personally love both and pray both whenever possible.
You have to understand the Dogmas and teachings of the Church to criticize them. You should do a little more reading before staking your soul on the position you are taking here.
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