@BreeSolstad Now, I'm not going to PROMOTE eating meat on Fridays, but if a Catholic chooses to do another form of penance besides abstaining from meat (which the Church allows), then I'm not going to fault them for it.
For many people, not eating meat isn't a sacrifice.
@Daviers9@melodymlyons I would disagree when it comes to simply getting to know someone to see if you are compatible. People naturally like to talk about themselves and about what they think.
@melodymlyons I think that some husbands forget the part about husbands loving their wives "as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her."
A husband's authority in a household is to be a sacrificial authority where he lays down his own desires for the good of his wife.
@SarahAnnRhoades@MaxManus73@RaymondArroyo@Pontifex Actually, it depends on the parish, in my opinion. I belong to a traditional Novus Ordo parish, and our Masses are very reverent. This is what our Mass looks like on a normal Sunday morning...
@afx4488@BreeSolstad Our parish has OCIA classes year around. Also, because of his traveling schedule, he could have been meeting one-on-one with a priest or teacher (if he was in OCIA in the first place). This is what I had to do when I entered the Catholic Church 26 years ago.
@BreeSolstad Gosh, people! Bree is not saying that we shouldn't give to the homeless on the street or help them. She is just saying to give in other ways than giving them money.
We all agree on helping the homeless. The disagreement is just on exactly HOW to help them.
@theAlexHos_@EricRSammons I would disagree with you. Scripture is clear that the order that God created was for man to be with woman. To have SSA is thus disordered.
This does not mean that God does not love those with SSA, or that we aren't to love them, so don't try to play that card.
@theAlexHos_@EricRSammons Although SSA itself is not a sin, it is disordered, in that it is not in accordance to how God created man to be.
I personally do not think it is wise to have a man in the priesthood who accepts and embraces what is a disorder. He needs help... not ordination.
@ShaneSchaetzel In some situations that would be hard. Take, for example, Kanas City, MO and Kansas City, KS.
These two cities sit side-by-side, and their businesses are intertwined closely. What if one state decided one way, and the other state decided the opposite?
@ChristineNiles1 Yeah, I understand that, and that would have been good. I'm referring, though, to the original post where the victim said that "they [the priest] didn’t do anything about it."
What could he have actually done outside of the confessional about what was shared with him? Nothing.
@MJKelleyII I couldn't agree more! As a former Baptist minister, and now a Catholic for the past 26 years, I completely agree that we both teach two different ways of salvation.
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@BreeSolstad As I commented on your other post, instead of taking one sentence of Pope Leo XIV's homily out of context, why don't we read the whole thing? If we do this, we will see that he never denied the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fish. It's actually a good homily.
@Maestrito1812@ModernBoethius How can the death penalty be immoral when it was God Himself who first instituted it? Are you implying that God is immoral?