This is oh so true! And secular society has done an incredible job of doing this. If you’ve ever heard Fr. Wade Menezes or Fr. Ben Cameron of The Fathers of Mercy speak about this it’s absolutely bone chilling. It leaves you thinking it’s a hopeless situation, a losing battle. I’ve heard them speak of Catholics who have bought into this secular progressive view of society hook, line and sinker. (Heck, I work with them!) And you can here in their sermons of just how huge a concern it is for the Church. I’ve heard Fr. Mitch Pacwa speak about this as well. Geesh, Mother Angelica has gone on about this for as long as I can remember. And she’s been off the air for how long? You can’t help get the feeling that we’re in dire straits. But I remind myself what I’ve been taught, that Christ is always in control and He will prevail! That"s part of the beauty here on CAF. That the Church is alive and well. Reading the responses to this and other topics on here daily reveal this clearly. I for one learn a lot here. And I thank you! I think you know who you are!
I wish you all the best and you’re in my prayers! You see what state I reside in…enough said!
I appreciate your distress for my salvation. But please forgive me if I leave it to God and leave it to Him to understand me and all that encompasses me, including my mind, my acts, and behavior. And most importantly to know my heart.
God reaches out to you through people. he knows your heart, he may forgive you, but he gave the apostles the ability to forgive sins, not everyone. God thought it important enough to bestow this ability on the apostles.
Amen!
Of course a merciful God can forgive. He sacrificed His body and blood on the cross for the forgiveness of sins. And we ask Him to forgive our trespasses each time we pray His prayer. The Apostle James also said to confess to one another. So no I am not telling God how.
He will certainly forgive all those who forgive. He will also extend a red carpet welcome to some and who knows, Obama could be one of those privileged souls.
Forgiveness of others is one, only one, condition for God’s embrace and “the red carpet.” Other conditions include keepingi the moral law, respecting Christ’s Church on earth as the extension of Christ Himself, personal (not governmental, necessarily) commitment to those in greater material need than ourselves, living our personal vocations, and showing gratitude to God by the manner in which we maximize whatever gifts & positive conditions exist in our lives, and how we glorify God by respecting His creation and adding to it instead of detracting from it. (The Stewardship of the Book of Genesis)
Yes, who does know? Not you, not I, not other CAF users who choose only certain portions of the Gospels and Epistles as litmus tests for who “loves” and does not “love.”
So could serial killers be some of those privileged souls. What’s your point? (If it’s your fondness for Obama, we already know about that.
)He answers your question in the first paragraph. DOMA did not become unconstitutional until the first state passed a law allowing gay marriage. Then an equal protection issue was raised.
DOJ is not even challenging DOMA under Romer v Evans
It’s all above my pay grade, but the equal protection argument is not about the right to marry. It’s about the right to equal protection once legally married. That is why DOMA is unconstitutional, once a state legally marries a gay couple. If two legally married couples in a state have different rights under a Federal law, then there is an equal protection argument to be made. Hard to believe that your legal scholar would miss something so obvious.
The American experiment continues to evolve.