We are not in disagreement then. My reaction is not the reaction that I recommend to anyone … in fact, my message would be keep the faith even though what you observe seems unreasonable in the light of faith. My only point is that there is a teaching duty required of those with teaching authority … and negligence is loss of religion and eventual loss of religious freedom.
I could not possibly agree more.
I’d rather have you and everyone else say something than not say it for worrying about it being a perfect act.
Am I understanding this correctly? The State does not have the right nor competency to regulate religious beliefs. The part about “religious freedom is the exercise of fidelity to God and his Holy Church without compromise” suggests the authority of the Church to step in to override laws that prevent church members from complying with the exercise of Catholicism.
May I ask why you stopped receiving the Eucharist? There is nothing here that leads me to believe you should have (?)
Go to Sunday Mass religiously for years, watch near 100% receive the Holy Eucharist, know priests receive daily … then surprise, surprise … did you know that moms kill their kids @ 1 million per year … only 4 million are born per year … yeah, it’s been going on for years … NOT A WORD FROM THE PULPIT … NOT A PRAYER FROM THE ALTAR … now, I’m looking … was it me? … did I sleep thru too many sermons? … let’s go to other parishes to see what they do at Sunday Mass … nope, not an issue there … let’s talk to Catholic friends who attend Sunday Mass and receive regularly … blank stare … not a prayer. Sorry, when I take off my Catholic team pride shirt at night, I’m left with the sneaking feeling that maybe, just maybe, the bread & wine is just bread & wine. Even Lassie, when Timmy falls down a well, barks his head off.
I for one was never a cheerleader, I did push very hard against Obama, rightfully so. I am a republican, only because the democrat party support of intrinsic evils dronve me out. I am the first republican on my mother’s and father’s sides; except my sister who registered rep y mistake in high school… She did not make mom happy!
I don’t condemn, I know in Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood has been defunded, this a favorite cause of the Democrat Party, Planned Parenthood is the Nation’s biggest abortion provider, South to Illinois is Obama’s state, in the past few months, another woman died at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
You hear about the evils of abortion from the pulpit at St. Joseph in Chauvin La. where I am. You hear it from me and my pastor, every homily will at least touch on the evils, some homilies are totally on the intrinsic evils which this country has adopted.
That is most definitely not the Archbishop’s point. Where exactly does he call individuals–individuals–satanists? (An “element” is not a human being.) He is not singling out me or you and calling us mortal sinners, on their way to the infernal regions. He is correct to lament, yet he does not condemn, those who publicly endorse abortion. No one, save the Lord, has the authority to condemn. If there are those who seek to condemn, they should take a look back at the Inquisition, or further back to John 8:7.
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I expect that may continue. People who are pro-abortion will pass that philosophy on to their children. Those children will pass it on to their children. The pro-abortion group will be more likely to have abortions…and so there will be less children to pass this on.
He doesn’t, of course. But his wording does denounce the “intentional” actions of those who are working against Church teachings. And, that is ascribing intent.
Sounds like devilry to me.
Good. We agree on something: he does not condemn individuals. Next question: where is it written that the anti-Obama forces, including the Archbishop, have been given the authority—which can only come from God—to condemn?
I completely get where you are coming from as I once walked out of mass because of my feelings about a particular priest and how he was handling mass (and therefore questioned the Real Presence at that particular mass). I have since confessed this. I certainly take issue with a number of “liberal” priests in our Church for sure. Come to think of it, it makes me wonder whether you live in southern California…lol.
Once again we’re getting confused between condemning a person and his/her actions. The Archbishop is talking about actions.