If God wills it, anything is possible. However, I am not aware of any church recognized as having apostolic succession ordaining married bishops in recent centuries. Which is why I asked for a cite when Fr_Chuck made the claim.
How true!
As Fr. Greely has stated in at least one of his more academic books. People, even liberals, like being Catholics and no strict traditionalist can be nasty enough to make them want to leave. They luuuv the Church.
I don’t think that the priests are allowed to marry, but married men are allowed to become priests. This is an important distinction.
Well, I for one DID leave the RCC, though I remain interested in its history and day to day news. You can’t totaly leave because it is part of the culture of your family, but I tell people I am a former Catholic.
Perhaps they have disagreed with most every group they have ever been a part of
, so they accept disagreement as natural. Thus, it is not a motive to leave. Perhaps they do accept that the Church is the Church, so nowhere else could possibly appeal. Perhaps their membership is one of committment, and they are not one to break committments. Perhaps they hear Jesus in the tabernacle and simply cannot walk away from that. As mijoy2 pointed out, perhaps they do not really grasp that the Church is serious about listening to her. I suspect most know it teaches about obedience, but I doubt they always grasp the significance of it. Perhaps they know they ought not leave the Church, so they obey that command.
Yes indeed. IMHO as Catholics, we need to give the Church the benefit of the doubt when we encounter something that at first we don’t tend to agree with for the sake of humility. Most people I know who don’t agree with the Church’s teachings don’t have any idea what the Church really teaches or why she teaches it. Seek first to understand IMHO.
Or perhaps they also know that they ought to be obedience to the Church’s teachings, but they don’t obey that command. However it’s worded, it all comes back to… choose whatever suite you.
That’s the problem. They don’t SEEK. Such high egos that they will only persist in their defiance.
They may seek…keep being a witness for the Truth and keep praying for them.
No, these people should NOT leave the Church. What they should do is humbly accept the Church’s teachings and change there contrarian beliefs.
And there are some nasty ones out there.
Do you claim another denomination now?
I think the problem of “high egos” is present on both sides.
I agree to an extent. I think they love the Church as much as the next Catholic, but for one reason or another they feel the church is going in the wrong direction on certain issues. Thus, they feel the need to try to correct it.
Some do. And the Church should continue to thwart their efforts and replace and/or admonish Bishops and Priests that don’t teach proper doctrine. Others have been misinformed. I received incorrect guidance when it comes to the roll of conscience. Without a correct understanding, it seems as though you are free to do as you wish…for example, as long as you pray about it really hard, birth control is okay.
What’s there not to understand? If there is no alternative which is anywhere near as good as the Catholic Church, why leave? Yes, I disagree with some things for what I see as very good reason but it’s still the best there is.