Norway sends Catholic church $5m bill

[baliano]

This is why I don’t like it when Churches take money from government. It’s really asking for trouble in many cases.

It’s always asking for trouble as the Church in the US is about to learn.

 

[7_Sorrows]

It’s always asking for trouble as the Church in the US is about to learn.

What does that mean?

 

[baliano]

What does that mean?

Just wait until the demands start based on the recent SCOTUS ruling.

 

[boar2roar]

And it’s quite common with Polish people that they are baptized, confirmed, and then they don’t want to have anything to do with the Church. So if the police calls them up and asks if they are a member of the Catholic Church in Norway, they will say no.

Part of the problem is that the Polish Church makes formal apostasy prohibitively difficult. It used to be that you could send a letter to the diocese, now you have to go to the office with two witnesses and hand in the declaration yourself. Nobody has got time for that.

? It isn’t common at all. Generally we don’t register as members of a specific parish but we aren’t a baptize and never come back culture. Only generally very left wing poles or former communists want nothing to do with the church.

 

[7_Sorrows]

Just wait until the demands start based on the recent SCOTUS ruling.

okay. now I see what you mean.

 

[zz912]

I guess the question is who is and who is not a Roman Catholic? Are the people in Catholics for Choice - are they Catholics?

No.

You can’t wear a New York Yankees shirt, hat, jacket, attend NYY games, root for the Yankees, and then claim to be a Boston Red Sox fan.

So no, they aren’t Catholic.