@JudyAbel2@Pontifex Reading about the lives of the Catholic Saints and Blessed may be able to help you with the answer because some of them did greatly suffer and some like Blessed Carlo Acutis died young.
@JudyAbel2@Pontifex That’s a very difficult question because there isn’t one right answer and even we Christians don’t really know for sure. What I do know is that God is just and the wicked will judged while the innocent will be protected.
@Pontifex Let’s also say a prayer for the family of Bobby Jenks, the former White Sox pitcher who passed away from cancer yesterday. Your holiness, I know you’re a Sox fan and watched him pitch in the WS and would like to ask you to pray for his family
@_Chris_Coghlan You know what the Catholic Church teaches and yet you choose popularity and power over it anyway. The priest was right to deny you Communion because you obviously don’t care about whether you sin or not.
@JasonD60@_Chris_Coghlan The priest made the right decision. Coghlan shows that he doesn’t take his Catholic beliefs seriously so he can’t receive the Eucharist especially since he is in a state of mortal sin.
@Pontifex At a time when I was questioning my Catholic faith, the Eucharist was what anchored me to the Catholic. The early church writings taught me what to focus on at Mass and I am devoted to the Eucharist.
@uncommon_cns@Pontifex I don’t think you should do that since we Catholics have to stay faithful to God’s teachings regarding sexuality and the way God designed us.