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Eruvande:
I completely agree with your conclusions as a cradle Catholic if you’ve lost your rosy-colored glasses about the Church. I have seen some of the worst moral hypocrisy (according to the world and/or the Church!) in my 20 some years within my personal Catholic community. A priest convicted of sharing alcohol and marijuana to a minor, priests telling me I was being bullied because I wasn’t meant to have friends, being ostracized by the popular Catholic girl clique in my catechism classes, drunk uncles verbally and physically and beating on aunts, judgmental snobbery, sexual molestation by relatives etc.
This doesn’t include the stuff the Church and we as Catholics exclusively condemn to be wrong: sex outside of marriage, unworthy reception of the Eucharist (they admitted they haven’t gone to confession in years and still receive Jesus’ body and blood, soul and divinity at least weekly), snobbery towards devotion to our Lady the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament etc.
It is necessary to lose our naiveté about the human nature in the Catholic Church because that’s what’s real.
And yet, I love my Church and the people in it. How could I not, when Jesus does?
Our wickedness is real. But what is also real is that we are the same humans that Jesus condescended to become a part of and to suffer with. The Merciful One has come down to the world He had dreamed into being perfectly which we corrupted in our fall to make it new in His Power.
So my parting thought for you is about your rosy-colored glasses. The Church has dogmatically said that we are One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. If we have faith in Jesus as Lord, she cannot be wrong. So why do we stray so far away from what we believe?
Other than the aforementioned obvious answer of “because we are sinners”, I would like to pose another suggested insight to you.
We, the children of God, made in his image have always dreamed of and with our rosy colored glasses. Instead of being embittered by seeing them as a mode of naiveté, the rosy-colored glasses can become our gift of vision when tempered with the gifts of fortitude and wisdom.
We must remember that the Triune God wants us to dream of the Eternal Reality so that it may come to pass in this life, and that there is not an impossible irreconcilability between human nature and human divinity. In short, after the Fall each one of us has to relearn through our lives what it really means to be with God. With His help we can live up to our name of Catholic.
I completely agree with your conclusions as a cradle Catholic if you’ve lost your rosy-colored glasses about the Church. I have seen some of the worst moral hypocrisy (according to the world and/or the Church!) in my 20 some years within my personal Catholic community. A priest convicted of sharing alcohol and marijuana to a minor, priests telling me I was being bullied because I wasn’t meant to have friends, being ostracized by the popular Catholic girl clique in my catechism classes, drunk uncles verbally and physically and beating on aunts, judgmental snobbery, sexual molestation by relatives etc.
This doesn’t include the stuff the Church and we as Catholics exclusively condemn to be wrong: sex outside of marriage, unworthy reception of the Eucharist (they admitted they haven’t gone to confession in years and still receive Jesus’ body and blood, soul and divinity at least weekly), snobbery towards devotion to our Lady the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament etc.
It is necessary to lose our naiveté about the human nature in the Catholic Church because that’s what’s real.
And yet, I love my Church and the people in it. How could I not, when Jesus does?
Our wickedness is real. But what is also real is that we are the same humans that Jesus condescended to become a part of and to suffer with. The Merciful One has come down to the world He had dreamed into being perfectly which we corrupted in our fall to make it new in His Power.
So my parting thought for you is about your rosy-colored glasses. The Church has dogmatically said that we are One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. If we have faith in Jesus as Lord, she cannot be wrong. So why do we stray so far away from what we believe?
Other than the aforementioned obvious answer of “because we are sinners”, I would like to pose another suggested insight to you.
We, the children of God, made in his image have always dreamed of and with our rosy colored glasses. Instead of being embittered by seeing them as a mode of naiveté, the rosy-colored glasses can become our gift of vision when tempered with the gifts of fortitude and wisdom.
We must remember that the Triune God wants us to dream of the Eternal Reality so that it may come to pass in this life, and that there is not an impossible irreconcilability between human nature and human divinity. In short, after the Fall each one of us has to relearn through our lives what it really means to be with God. With His help we can live up to our name of Catholic.
So true.