"We are all Catholic now"

[DLG123]

Glenn Beck has started a calling campaign to call congress in support of the conscience amendment. He is a mormon but is willing to stand with Catholics because if they will come after the Catholic Church during an election year NO faith is safe. I pray that all who were awakened last week do not fall back asleep.

I urge all Catholic and non-Catholic alike to stand up and stand together. We need to stop letting small vocal minority shout us down. We ,Christians, are the majority in this country and its time we stop being the door mat for our “dear leaders”. They need to be reminded that they work for us not the other way around.

IMO they are trying to change the first amendment from freedom of religion to freedom of worship. and there is a mountain of difference in the two. Please stand for your faith and with the faithful because if you don’t no one will!

theblaze.com/stories/beck-announces-we-are-all-catholics-now-campaign-to-fight-contraception-mandate/

The Peace of Christ be with you all!
DLG

 

[InLight247]

Thanks for your posting!

 

[Rick09]

It’s encouraging to see how many non-Catholics aren’t making the mistake of seeing this as “just a Catholic issue.” I’m hopeful that Obama may have underestimated the reaction here.

 

[DLG123]

It’s encouraging to see how many non-Catholics aren’t making the mistake of seeing this as “just a Catholic issue.” I’m hopeful that Obama may have underestimated the reaction here.

Personally, I don’t think he cares… I think he likes to have people all riled up. He continues to ignore the law of the land and “dictate” to us what we can and can’t do.

 

[mh2007]

The Obama administration just went over the edge. What we are witnessing today, right before our very eyes, is the implosion of religious foundations because government leaders have no sense of morality. It isn’t convenient, so they want to push organized religions aside. The welfare of the state is of the utmost importance. Private citizens, clinging to their guns and bibles, only get in the way.

However, this can be overcome. The voters will remember all of the Obama shenanigans come election day.

 

[saraih]

The same Glenn Beck that told Catholics to run away from their social justice churches because they were fascist. Talk about liking to rile people up.

 

[JimG]

Yes, he does like to rile people up.

Still this is a case–loss of religious freedom–where people ought to be riled up, Catholic or not.

 

[TEPO]

Glenn Beck has started a calling campaign to call congress in support of the conscience amendment. He is a mormon but is willing to stand with Catholics because if they will come after the Catholic Church during an election year NO faith is safe. I pray that all who were awakened last week do not fall back asleep.

No faith is safe you say…?

Well then if we could get the Muslims on board with religious freedom, then I think the whole problem would come to a screeching hault. With Muslim support, the media would’nt know who to side with -they’d really be left scratching their heads.

 

[Moro_Rock]

No faith is safe you say…?

Well then if we could get the Muslims on board with religious freedom, then I think the whole problem would come to a screeching hault. With Muslim support, the media would’nt know who to side with -they’d really be left scratching their heads.

 

[lizaanne]

I’m sorry Glen Beck, but we are NOT all Catholic now. You do not get to hang the “I’m a Catholic now” sign on you because you agree on this topic - I’m sorry, it doesn’t work that way. Men, women, and children for centuries have died because they were TRULY Catholic - so you don’t just get to paint everyone with the same brush ---- there IS no unity between us, simply because we agree on one issue.

Now - you can say we are all united against this issue - but do not dare to call yourself Catholic, even in passing/joking/making a point, when you don’t have even the slightest inclination to come close to being one for real.

This really cheesed me off when I saw it. I love it that he is trying to rally people together against the HHS mandate - lovely. But don’t do it on the back of the Church that you would otherwise have rather uncharitable things to say about.



~Liza

 

[iloveangels]

I’m sorry Glen Beck, but we are NOT all Catholic now. You do not get to hang the “I’m a Catholic now” sign on you because you agree on this topic - I’m sorry, it doesn’t work that way. Men, women, and children for centuries have died because they were TRULY Catholic - so you don’t just get to paint everyone with the same brush ---- there IS no unity between us, simply because we agree on one issue.

Now - you can say we are all united against this issue - but do not dare to call yourself Catholic, even in passing/joking/making a point, when you don’t have even the slightest inclination to come close to being one for real.

This really cheesed me off when I saw it. I love it that he is trying to rally people together against the HHS mandate - lovely. But don’t do it on the back of the Church that you would otherwise have rather uncharitable things to say about.



~Liza

This didn’t really bother me at all, and I’m not a Glen Beck fan either. He’s just trying to rally people against violations of the Constitution and on that particular item I agree with him, even if I don’t on some other things.

The other very real reason that this didn’t bother me is sort of controversial but true. We claim people are Catholic by virtue of their once belonging to the Church, which is kind of strange, if you want to know the truth. I used to be a Lutheran. I was even baptized a Lutheran. When I converted to the Catholic faith, they didn’t re-baptize me, because they don’t do that. You can only be baptized once. Baptism is a very, very, very important sacrament which brings you into the Church, but it’s not what makes you Catholic. Otherwise I would have been so long before I ever darkened a Catholic door since my baptism, which happened long before that, was valid. Baptism makes you Christian. Other things make you CATHOLIC. It’s just that cradle Catholics become Catholic and Christian at once, and don’t come to the Church in a series of steps, so they don’t realize that.

There are a certain number of people who claim they’re Catholic, who are nothing of the sort. None of the other marks that brand someone out as a Catholic are present. This is completely possible.

 

[Lifesong]

Glenn Beck is a cradle Catholic I for one am grateful for the campaign to protect religious liberty.

Blessings,

Val

 

[hannajomar]

I’m sorry Glen Beck, but we are NOT all Catholic now. You do not get to hang the “I’m a Catholic now” sign on you because you agree on this topic - I’m sorry, it doesn’t work that way. Men, women, and children for centuries have died because they were TRULY Catholic - so you don’t just get to paint everyone with the same brush ---- there IS no unity between us, simply because we agree on one issue.

I don’t think he was being literal. He was saying that he is standing with Catholics on this issue because he knows that attacking the rights of one group is attacking the rights of all. I don’t see the need to attack him. Just because we don’t have perfect unity with a person or with a group doesn’t mean we should not stand together when one person or group is attacked. The more non-Catholics or nonpracticing Catholics who stand up for our rights to not be involved in birth control, the better the results will be for us.

 

[Bubba_Switzler]

Glenn Beck is a cradle Catholic I for one am grateful for the campaign to protect religious liberty.

Very interesting, but apparently he is a Catholic convert to Mormonism.

Beck was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Mount Vernon.

…

In 1999, Beck married his second wife, Tania.[26] After they went looking for a faith on a church tour together, they [26] joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in October 1999, partly at the urging of his daughter Mary.[30][31] Beck was baptized by his old friend, and current-day co-worker Pat Gray.[26] Beck and his current wife have had two children together, Raphe (who is adopted) and Cheyenne. Until April 2011, the couple live in New Canaan, Connecticut, with the four children.[32][33]

I have to admit I have always found Mormonism morally interesting but theologically kooky.

 

[Stylteralmaldo]

…I urge all Catholic and non-Catholic alike to stand up and stand together…

My observation at the early onset of this thread is that ONLY Catholics have responded to it. I understand this is a Catholic board, but I would be more encouraged if our non-Catholic brethern would respond and see if they agree with what’s going on. It’s one thing for Catholics to be against this mandate. It’s another thing for a pro-Republican pundit to say something about it. It’s an entirely different thing to see a regular every-day citizen non-Catholic stand up against it. I hope they are out there.

 

[Lifesong]

My observation at the early onset of this thread is that ONLY Catholics have responded to it. I understand this is a Catholic board, but I would be more encouraged if our non-Catholic brethern would respond and see if they agree with what’s going on. It’s one thing for Catholics to be against this mandate. It’s another thing for a pro-Republican pundit to say something about it. It’s an entirely different thing to see a regular every-day citizen non-Catholic stand up against it. I hope they are out there.

For what it’s worth I am in RCIA and Methodist I guess until April 7th I know lots of people out there in daily life including people who don’t attend church who see this mandate for the government overeach that it is. We need to keep educating them especially about how this is not about contraception in my opinion.

Blessings,

Val